A new auction, Women Through History, will take place on March 23 at Bonhams Knightsbridge.
A large section is dedicated to items relating to the Women’s Suffrage Movement, including the hunger strike medal awarded by the WSPU to Edith Downing in 1912, (estimate £10,000-15,000), a photograph of the moment Emily Wilding Davison was struck by the King’s horse on Derby Day, 1913, becoming a Suffragette figurehead as a martyr to the cause (£2000-3000), and a Suffragette Tea Service, dating from 1909 (£10,000-15,000).
Downing (1857-1931) was an artist and sculptor. She joined the more radical Women’s Social and Political Union in 1908. In March 1912 she was arrested after throwing a stone through the window of a fine art dealer in Regent Street and sent to Holloway Prison where she took part in a hunger strike and was force fed.
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A pair of percussion rifled target pistols by James Purdey of Oxford Street, London – estimated at £15,000-20,000 at Holts.
The sale of Fine Modern & Antique Guns at Holts in Wolferton, Norfolk, on March 21-22 includes this fine pair of percussion rifled target pistols by James Purdey of Oxford Street, London.
The pair, with serial numbers for 1832, retain some original faded finish and the maker’s fitted walnut case with parchment trade label. Accessories include a Britannia metal three-way powder-flask by James Dixon, a turnscrew, nipple-key, ebony nipple pot and a later loading rod. Estimate £15,000-20,000.
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An original artwork by Tom Chantrell for the fantasy B-movie At the Earth’s Core – estimated at £1000-1500 at Prop Store in Rickmansworth.
The sale of cinema posters at Prop Store in Rickmansworth on March 24 includes this original artwork by Tom Chantrell for the fantasy B-movie At the Earth’s Core. This was the second in a series of films directed by Kevin Connor that began with The Land That Time Forgot in 1975 and included The People That Time Forgot (1977) and Warlords of Atlantis (1978).
The artwork, created for the UK quad on illustration board, is estimated at £1000-1500.
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An early 19th century Nottingham brown stoneware puzzle jug – estimated at £250-500 at Leighton Hall Auctions.
This early 19th century Nottingham brown stoneware puzzle jug, 8in (21cm) tall, has a guide of £250-500 at Leighton Hall Auctions in Alton on March 19.
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A Bristol porcelain sparrow beak jug c.1770-75 expected to bring £400-600 at David Duggleby.
This large 9in (22cm) Bristol porcelain sparrow beak jug decorated with hand painted floral sprays and sprigs, c.1770-75, has a paper label for the Bayley Collection Bristol. At the Country House Sale at David Duggleby in Scarborough on March 26, it is expected to bring £400-600.
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Meiji period shibayama okimono carved as three fruits inset with insects on a branch with a guide of £300-500 at McTear’s.
This Meiji period shibayama okimono carved as three fruits inset with insects on a branch, 3½in (8.5cm) wide, has a guide of £300-500 at McTear’s in Glasgow on March 18.
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Avengers #1, rated 4.0 – estimated at £3000-4000 at Sheffield Auction Gallery.
Sheffield Auction Gallery is selling a singleowner collection of 250 lots of rare and collectable comics in a specialist sale on March 24. Many of these are third-party graded examples including this ‘slabbed’ example of Avengers #1 that, rated 4.0, has an estimate of £3000-4000.
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A pair of Keswick School of Industrial Arts silver spoons – estimated at £200-300 at Lacy Scott & Knight.
This pair of Keswick School of Industrial Arts silver spoons, each hallmarked for Chester, one dated 1929 and the other 1931, come for sale at the Twentieth Century Art & Design sale at Lacy Scott & Knight, Bury St Edmunds, on March 18. Housed in their original fitted box, the estimate is £200-300.
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Amelia Struck by Lightning dated 1763 by William Williams of Norwich (1727-97) has an estimate of £3000-5000 at Cheffins.
Cheffins will offer 12 paintings from the Asbjorn Lunde Foundation as part of the Fine Sale in Cambridge on March 23-24. All proceeds will go to support the foundation, established by the US collector Asbjorn Lunde (1927-2017), and its activities throughout the arts and music sectors.
The paintings to be offered are primarily 18th century British works.
Amelia Struck by Lightning dated 1763 is by William Williams of Norwich (1727-97). The subject is inspired by a passage from Summer in James Thomson’s cycle of poems The Seasons which was hugely popular throughout the 18th century. The same subject, but of different composition, dated 1784, is at the Tate Britain. This picture has an estimate of £3000-5000.
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A creamware cylindrical tankard is estimated at £500-1000 at Historical & Collectable of Reading.
This creamware cylindrical tankard is printed with a copy of A Cudgelling Match between English and French Negros in the Island of Dominica by Agostino Brunias (1730-96). He had moved to the West Indian territories after the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 and made a career painting sometimes romanticised views of local life.
This particular engraving was published in February 1779 with the mug made perhaps a decade later around the time of the founding of The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1787). It thus ranks among the earliest of memorabilia produced for the anti-slavery movement.
At Historical & Collectable of Reading on March 22, it is estimated at £500-1000.
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Silver ‘spitting’ donkey’s head walking stick – estimated at £600-800 at Sworders.
Sworders’ Fine Interiors sale at Stansted Mountfitchet on March 22-23 includes, estimated at £600-800, this silver ‘spitting’ donkey’s head walking stick. Marked for Charles Henry Dumenil, London 1905, it was possibly made for Brigg.
The head unscrews to reveal an internal hollow rod and reservoir. Pressing the lever at the back of the donkey’s head squirts out the liquid. It was probably for scent or water – although the vendor was told long ago that it was for poison.
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A George II leather and studwork coffer on a later stand – estimated at £200-400 at Duke’s of Dorset.
This George II leather and studwork coffer on a later stand is dated 1757 to the top, with the initials EB, studded tulips to the front and the original maker’s label to the interior Richard Lucas Trunk Maker at Dover Castle.
It measures 2ft 4in high x 3ft 6in wide x 12½in deep (71cm x 1.06m x 55cm) and is estimated at £200-400 in the March 24 auction at Duke’s of Dorset.
A First Period Irish Belleek porcelain spirit flask moulded relief, guided at £100-150 at Semley Auctions.
This First Period Irish Belleek porcelain spirit flask moulded relief, with an English rose, Irish shamrock, and Scottish thistle around a puce Belleek factory mark and a moulded Star of David, has a guide of £100-150 at Semley Auctions in Shaftesbury on March 19.
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An early 19th century Spode Indian Sporting Series tureen and stand – estimated at £1000-1500 at Peter Francis of Carmarthen.
This early 19th century Spode Indian Sporting Series tureen and stand is part of a large consignment of Spode ceramics from a Home Counties private collector. It comes for sale at Peter Francis of Carmarthen on March 30 with an estimate of £1000-1500.
