Recent Highlights

Antique & Collectable

A George III mahogany chest on chest, the upper section with plain pediment over three graduated long and two short drawers, the base with three graduated long drawers on bracket feet, w. 117 cm

Sold at auction for £920

A Victorian walnut framed and button upholstered sofa with arched back, serpentine seat and moulded decoration on turned and reeded legs

Sold at auction for £480

An Orcadian pine framed and straw work wing armchair of typical construction

Sold at auction for £400

A Victorian walnut crossbanded and strung dwarf bookcase of breakfront form having three open shelves and a pair of cupboards, the whole with figural and pendant moulded decoration on a plinth base, w. 240 cm

Sold at auction for £720

An early Victorian walnut duet music stand with pierced lyre facias on an adjustable fluted shaft with tripod base, w. 42 cm

Sold at auction for £800

A late 19th century French mantle clock, the enamelled dial supporting a twin train striking movement, in a figural gilt bronze case surmounted by an equestrian figure of a Saxon, h. 42 cm, on a gilt wood stand under a glass dome

Sold at auction for £550

Hatton H. & Plate A.: Magicians’ Tricks and How They Are Done, nd 8vo hb; Kirk G: Jumbo Coin Magic, 1999, 4to hb. Ltd. Ed. 210/1500. Hopkins N: Twentieth Century Magic, 1904 8vo hb, with a quantity of other titles

Sold at auction for £520

Massey E.: New and Original Magic 1922; Collins S: A Conjuring Melange 1947;
Merlo N.: The Magic of John Fedko 1983; McComb B.: McComb’s Magic .25 Years Wiser, with a quantity of other volumes

Sold at auction for £480

‘An Amateur’: Real Life in London or the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho...through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners and Amusements in High and Low Life. 2 volumes, 1821-22. 32 fascinating hand coloured plates by Thomas Rowlandson, Henry Heath and others printed and coloured, engraved title pages, recently rebound in full calf, contents a little browned

Sold at auction for £350

A Broadwood 9ft ‘Chopin’ concert grand piano with marbled iron frame and short keyboard, in a satin wood case with moulded volutes on turned and reeded legs
* with ivorine label ‘Patent Repetition Grand Piano-forte....London’ (l. 236 cm x w. 129 cm x h. 94 cm)

Sold at auction for £2,500

A George III mahogany serpentine fronted and sided chest of three graduated long drawers of French commode form, having brass carrying handles and cast gilt sabots on brass barrel shaped castors, (the top drawer formerly fitted), w. 122 cm

Sold at auction for £22000

A Minton 19th century Majolica oyster dish with yellow segmental plateau and moulded shell decoration, d. 24 cm

Sold at auction for £680

An early Victorian and later proscenium with silk and faux diamond canopy, together with four early 19th century Punch & Judy characters each with painted papier mache heads and fabric costumes, average h. 34cm

Sold at auction for £650

A 19th century Chinese famille verte two handled vase of moon flask form, decorated with opposing panels depicting an exotic bird and a battle scene on a pale turquoise ground with scrolling decoration, h. 27 cm, and another, similarly decorated on a pink ground

Sold at auction for £590

A Victorian walnut cylinder bookcase with glazed upper section and cupboard base, w. 116 cm

Sold at auction for £480

A late 19th/early 20th century Anglo Chinese hardwood display stand of Gothic outline with carved and pierced decoration on a plinth base, w. 89 cm

Sold at auction for £720

Formerly the property of the Duke of Bedford:
A 19th century calf bound and gilt tooled album containing watercolours, drawings and prints including: Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873), A half length portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Bedford, second wife of the 6th Duke of Bedford, inscribed and indistinctly dated 'sketch by Mr E Landseer.....' pen, ink, chalk and colour wash, 22 x 18 cm

Sold at auction for £6800

A scratch built model of the Cutty Sark, fully rigged with white painted masts and copper clad hull, h. 69 cm, in a five-glass case

Sold at auction for £820

A 19th century mahogany and ebonised break-front side cabinet by Lamb of Manchester, the stepped superstructure with a gilt brass gallery and four drawers over a pair of panelled doors on a plinth base, w. 135 cm

Sold at auction for £700

An Arts & Crafts embroidered panel worked in silk threads with equestrian and other figures in a whimsical landscape, 147 x 116 cm

Sold at auction for £680

Simpson, Charles. Leicestershire and it's Hunts: The Quorn, The Cottesmore, and The Belvoir. 1926 limited edition, No 40 (of 75) signed by author. 4to Contemporary binding, cloth spine, marbled boards. Colour and black and white plates.

Sold at auction for £360

A 19th century Bohemian overlaid ruby glass vase and cover of goblet shaped form, typically decorated with a reserve of deer in a landscape, h. 34.5 cm

Sold at auction for £620

Ernest Gimson: His Life and Work. 1924 limited edition (226 of 500) Shakespeare Head Press 4To hb & Dj

Sold at auction for £600

A pair of Doulton Lambeth Faience vases by Euphemia A.Thatcher of ovoid form, each painted with a spray of narcissus and butterflies on a mottled deep blue ground, signed with monogram, h. 31 cm

Sold at auction for £400

An early Victorian walnut stool with rectangular upholstered top on moulded 'X' shaped supports

Sold at auction for £380

Throsby, John. Select Views in Leicestershire from original drawings containing seats of nobility and gentry, town views and ruins, accompanied with descriptive and historical relations. 1789. Portrait frontis, engraved plates (labelled Vol.1)

Sold at auction for £380

A set of eight Victorian dining chairs with moulded balloon backs on turned legs

Sold at auction for £1000

A white five pound note,
issued by the Bedford Bank on 5th May, 1913, and signed by T.H. Barnard, No. C2543, cancelled in red ink 1915, together with a hand written letter to the original purchaser from T.H Barnard, signed and dated 1915

Sold at auction for £1700

William Fraser Garden (1856-1921),
A winter landscape with a river in flood, signed and dated 89,
watercolour, 19.5 x 28 cm, unframed

Sold at auction for £2200

A matched pair of George II/III cast silver candlesticks by John & William Cafe, one London 1755, the other London 1764,
37.5 ozs *with period armorials

Sold at auction for £1000

A Charles Sykes (20th century), a brown patinated bronze figure modelled as an elegant lady wearing a bonnet and holding a parasol, signed, h. 34 cm, on a marble base *Charles Skykes was best known for modelling the winged female form used as a mascot on Rolls Royce motorcars

Sold at auction for £1000

A group of six sketch books, one inscribed and dated ‘Rudge (Christian name deleted), Derbyshire 1835’; another inscribed in pencil ‘Edward Rudge of Hilmorton, 1830/40’; another titled in ink ‘Sky and Old Buildings’ and inscribed ‘Edw. Rudge’s sketch book for 1829’; another inscribed in ink ‘Edw. Rudge, June 27th 1835, Hilmorton near Rugby’; another titled in ink ‘Cornfield Figures’ and another inscribed in ink ‘Edw. Rudge, Coventry’ and containing pencil sketches and watercolours of characters and views in Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, etc.

Sold at auction for £2800

Cowan Dobson (20th century),
A full length portrait of the artist’s wife Phyllis, standing in a white satin ball gown, indistinctly signed, oil on canvas, 221 x 105 cm

Sold at auction for £1350

An early 19th century golden oak and crossbanded card table with hinged revolving top on a stiff-leaf moulded octagonal support with quadrapite base and paw feet, w. 91 cm

Sold at auction for £250

A pair of 19th century cast iron garden urns of compressed campana form with gadrooned bodies on flaring bases, d. 52 x h. 48 cm

Sold at auction for £310

Ethan Allen Greenwood (American 1779 - 1856),
A head and shoulders portrait of a woman wearing a lace bonnet and collar, signed and dated 1814, oil on canvas, 66 x 51 cm

Sold at auction for £1000

A 20th century Sitzendorf band of Turkish musicians, each instrumentalist modelled in the 18th century manner and standing on a naturalistic circular base, h. max 16.5 cm

Sold at auction for £680

An 18th century Persian kard with walrus ivory hilt and black damascus blade, the whole with yellow metal koftgari decoration, l. 33 cm, in a leather scabbard

Sold at auction for £1200

An early 18th century and later walnut and strung chest of three graduated long and two short drawers, on bracket feet, with pine sides w. 92 cm

Sold at auction for £420

Presbury of Coventry, a George II bracket timepiece, the arched silver face with secondary dial and rococo chased spandrels in a mahogany ‘caddy top’ case with brass carrying handles and glass sides, on a moulded plinth and face, h. 51 cm

Sold at auction for £2000

Automobilia; A 1930’s ‘BRDC’ enamel and silver plated radiator badge in the form of a winged shield, inscribed I.C.C Mayers, a plated and pierced ‘AA’ radiator badge, numbered 8921, three plated ash trays with Car Club inscriptions and a brass Cambridge/Oxford Owners Club plaque

Sold at auction for £430

A 19th century Continental Parian ware bust modelled as young female on a socle base,
h. 28 cm

Sold at auction for £250

Franz Bergman, a late 19th century cold painted Austrian bronze modelled as a hare, squatting with ears erect, signed, h. 19 cm

Sold at auction for £1800

A set of eight early Victorian mahogany framed dining chairs with moulded balloon backs and serpentine seats on conforming baluster legs

Sold at auction for £660

An Edwardian mahogany and strung set of quartetto tables on square tapered legs, max. w. 41 cm

Sold at auction for £230

A Victorian 18th century-style three piece silver tea set, the caddy shaped bodies with repousse rococo decoration, Widdowson and Veale, London 1833, 34 ozs

Sold at auction for £480

English School 19th century,
half length portrait of a girl in Elizabethan costume,
oil on board laid on an oak panel, 20 x 15 cm, in a decorative gilt frame

Sold at auction for £800

19th century Russian silver niello cigarette case decorated with three figures in a troika, maker (?) Gustav Klingert, 1887

Sold at auction for £340

Rare Moorcroft vase of shouldered form, decorated with a band of fish and leafy forms, on a shaded blue ground, h. 9 cm

Sold at auction for £720

William IV mahogany reading table, the sliding rectangular top having two rising book stands above three double sided drawers, one having tooled leather writing fitments, on a rise and fall ratchet column, having four scrolled carved feet, w. 96 cm

Sold at auction for £1,200

Early Victorian walnut centre table, having micro mosaic panel depicting Convolvulus and butterfly with cast brass border, turned column with beaded and carved acanthus decoration, having four out swept scrolling supports, w. 62 cm

Sold at auction for £5,400

Regency mahogany demi-lune console table with single drawer, having scroll carved upstand, raised on two scrolled front supports with acanthus leaf decoration and lions paw feet, and two later rear square form supports, w. 113 cm

Sold at auction for £1,600

Early Georgian cross and feather banded walnut tallboy, the upper section of three short and three long graduated drawers, having fluted canted corners, the lower section with brushing slide above three further graduated drawers, the lower one having central concave inlaid sunburst decoration, raised on bracket feet, w. 105 cm

Sold at auction for £13,500

George V 9ct gold cigarette case with engine turned decoration, Birmingham 1912, 9.5cm

Sold at auction for £600

Weekly Sales

Apple 13inch white MacBook, Intel Core 2 duo processor, boxed.

Sold at our weekly auction for £360

 

Mini Mayfair 21,000 miles auto

Sold at our weekly auction for £5,200

TMC 3t gas counter balance fortk lift truck with side shift

Sold at our weekly auction for £4,500

 

Mercedes E320 CDi Avantgarde Automatic 3.2 diesel 4 door saloon

Sold at our weekly auction for £7,200

Hayter MT313 ride on mower (2006)

Sold at our weekly auction for £6,600

 

Dewalt DW721 radial arm saw with mount

Sold at our weekly auction for £510

219 Karcher HDS745M eco pressure washer

Sold at our weekly auction for £800

 

Wooden case of 12 bottles of Taylors 1977 vintage port

Sold at our weekly auction for £510

(2007) Triumph Rocket III motorbike

Sold at our weekly auction for £8100

 

Springer Waterbug narrow boat

Sold at our weekly auction for £5000

Pioneer PDP-LX5090 50” plasma TV

Sold at our weekly auction for £1000

 

Record power 10 inch plainer and 6 inch thicknesser

Sold at our weekly auction for £300

Bosch double door freezer

Sold at our weekly auction for £530

 

JCB 8015 mini digger with 2 buckets (2004)

Sold at our weekly auction for £5,500

2006 Quicksilver 650 Weekend Pleasure Boat

Sold at our weekly auction for £16,500

 

Myford Super 7 engineering lathe with tooling

Sold at our weekly auction for £800

 

Specialist Sales

Norris No. A1 20 ½’’ adjustable jointer plane with gun metal lever

Sold at our Collectors' Tools auction for £600

Record No. 074 8’’ adjustable shoulder plane

Sold at our Collectors' Tools auction for £210

Preston side rebate plane

Sold at our Collectors' Tools auction for £210

Two Preston smoothing planes Nos. 13 & 9

Sold at our Collectors' Tools auction for £260

Two Preston bullnose planes, one with fence

Sold at our Collectors' Tools auction for £240

Wooden coopers compass labelled A TE Lambert, Magon

Sold at our Collectors' Tools auction for £200

Lie-Nielsen low angle jointer plane model No. L-N 7 ½

Sold at our Collectors' Tools auction for £210

Stanley No. 52 chuting board, together with No. 51 chuting plane

Sold at our Collectors' Tools auction for £580

1984 New Order UK tour poster, 22 x 39” for short 7 date tour in August 1979

Sold at our Rock & Pop, Film & Sporting Memorabilia auction for £140

Beatles assorted memorabilia inc. Fan Club newsletters, cuttings, photograph

Sold at our Rock & Pop, Film & Sporting Memorabilia auction for £140

The Outside Halves - 1951-2002 Welsh Rugby cap and signed drawings of players - limited edition 19/100 - framed and glazed 39 x 35”

Sold at our Rock & Pop, Film & Sporting Memorabilia auction for £180

Eddie Cochran American 1958 ‘Alan Freed Christmas Jubilee’ concert programme featuring Eddie Cochran, Ritchie Valens, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and others

Sold at our Rock & Pop, Film & Sporting Memorabilia auction for £120

Elton John - Piano Stool belonging to Elton John with COA, in blue velour material

Sold at our Rock & Pop, Film & Sporting Memorabilia auction for £280

Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway to Heaven’ 1990 promotional single (only 150 pressed) plus explanatory record company memo, framed

Sold at our Rock & Pop, Film & Sporting Memorabilia auction for £130

Beswick Galloway Bull - belted
Model No. 1746B Black and white
Gloss

Sold at our Beswick auction for £1,700

Beswick Moose
Model No. 2090
Dark brown
Gloss

Sold at our Beswick auction for £700

Beswick Sussex Cockerel Model No. 1899 Black, white and pink Gloss

Sold at our Beswick auction for £680

Beswick Purple Hair Streak Butterfly
Model No. 1494 Brown and grey
Gloss

Sold at our Beswick auction for £440

A yellow metal and platinum ring set centrally with oval sapphire with diamond either side in pierced work claw settings

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £1500

Eight gold sovereigns dated 1886, 1887, 1885, 1872, 1853, 1913, 1915 and 1889, all contained in a fitted case

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £1400

A 9ct gold engine turned cigarette case of rectangular form, Birmingham hallmarks, 173 g

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £1200

A continuous strand of cultured pearls, together with a pair of synthetic and paste drop earrings

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £1200

A Bell & Ross BR03 Aviation carbon cased wristwatch in original case with instructions

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £1100

18ct white gold ring set 19 diamonds in a half hoop pave setting

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £1500

An 18ct white gold ring set nineteen diamonds in a flower head setting

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £1000

A white metal ring set centrally with cushion cut sapphire, set on either side with single diamond

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £1350

A Renaissance revival style yellow metal diamond shape pendant set with light and dark blue enamel with eleven pearls, four rubies, with pearl drop below, stamped on lozenge
C-G Carlo Giuliano on a 9ct rope twist necklace

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £3400

A yellow and white metal pendant necklet of Bell Epoque period set sapphire and diamonds in millegrain setting

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £840

Graduated pearl necklace having white metal clasp set with three diamonds

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £1150

Yellow metal cigarette case with ribbed pattern and leaf design border, stamped 585, 130 grams

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £1000

Yellow metal ring set centrally with square cut sapphire in a surround of diamonds, having three graduated diamonds to each shoulder

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £740

Longine wristwatch, case and mesh link bracelet stamped 14k, by Longines, having baton numerals on a white ground in a square setting, in original box

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £500

Yellow metal Art Deco style ring set centrally with two baguette cut diamonds in a surround of twelve diamonds in square setting

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £600

Ladies cigarette holder, having two sections set with diamonds in a millegrain setting with black enamel between and two quill mouth pieces, in original Cartier box

Sold at our Jewellery auction for £540

A Hornby Dublo OO gauge EDG7 tank goods train set, boxed

Sold at our Memories of Childhood auction for £300

A large selection of unboxed diecast models including Dinky snowplough, Foden flatbed, a collection of military models and others

Sold at our Memories of Childhood auction for £370

A Dinky Toys perspex illuminated display case, in cardboard box

Sold at our Memories of Childhood auction for £210

An Armand Marseille 'Ellab' bisque headed fully jointed Oriental baby doll with painted features, fixed brown glass eyes and closed mouth

Sold at our Memories of Childhood auction for £170

Selection of various Hornby and other tinplate models including garage, water tank, two AA phone boxes, Dinky diecast police box and similar telephone box, together with a small selection of lead figures

Sold at our Memories of Childhood auction for £180

Britains and other lead figures including mounted officer, various soldiers, guards, bandsmen etc

Sold at our Memories of Childhood auction for £250

Arkana circular rosewood dining table on tulip base and four moulded fibre glass dining chairs with red cushion seats, on four star bases, d. 106 cm

Sold at our 20th Century Design auction for £650

Norman Foster Nomos boardroom table with plate glass top on chrome support, by Tecno, 220 x 100 cm

Sold at our 20th Century Design auction for £1000

Villeroy & Boch Acapulco design part dinner and tea service, 62 pieces

Sold at our 20th Century Design auction for £440

Hagenauer patinated bronze figure of a female tribal dancer of stylized form on square base, with stamped marks, h. 26 cm

Sold at our 20th Century Design auction for £600

Rectangular rosewood coffee table with flat chrome supports and two nesting tables under

Sold at our 20th Century Design auction for £480

Pair of Bruno Mathsson metal framed white leather swivel lounge chairs on chrome cradles with circular bases made by Dux

Sold at our 20th Century Design auction for £500

Norman Foster Nomos glass topped work station on tubular chrome supports with matching black two door pedestal and three drawer double filing cabinet, manufactured by Tecno

Sold at our 20th Century Design auction for £400

Collection of mid 20th century advertising posters for various Coach companies

Sold at our 20th Century Design auction for £420

Commercial Sales

Nissan 3 tonne capacity LPG counterbalance forklift

Sold at Collective Machinery Auction for £2,200

 

20ft yellow painted corrugated steel freight container

Sold at Collective Machinery Auction for £880

Wadkin Power Band Resaw machine PBR-HD-88646

Sold at Collective Machinery Auction for £2,400

 

Stone Stomper Robin Model EC12 compactor

Sold at Collective Machinery Auction for £650

Visa Energy Model DG150M1 14KVA standby generating set

Sold at Collective Machinery Auction for £1,900

 

Stone Saw Devil Model CS2 concrete floor saw

Sold at Collective Machinery Auction for £520

Visa Energy Model 20M standby generating set

Sold at Collective Machinery Auction for £2,500

 

Wadkin BRA400 radial arm crosscut saw

Sold at Collective Machinery Auction for £1,400

Combilift Model C6000 calor gas side loader
Serial No: 12819 Capacity: 6000kg Un-laden weight: 12500 kg Year: October 2008

Sold at Auction for £21,000

 

Striebeg Standard 11 TRK wall saw

Sold at Auction for £2,900

JCB JS130 tracked excavator (2004)

Sold at Collective Machinery Auction for £12,600

 

Trimble total station digital surveying system

Sold at Collective Machinery Auction for £1,200

Harrison M390 8” x 50” BC gap bed lathe with Anilam Wizard 150 plus 2 axis DRO coolant and steady

Sold at an outside sale for £3,020

 

Combi-Lift Model 4000 LPG sideloader with extension forks. Capacity 5500kg. Lift height 5500mm

Sold at online sale for £14,260

Bridgeport VMC600/22 vertical machining centre with 22 station tool carousel and coolant system

Sold at online sale for £5,510

 

uPVC Saw line comprising
13 Bar 6metre loading rack / table, Rapid Optima V1 6500 CNC 6 axis saw
Machine No. 19500533 Year 2002, 2 Bar Travelling 6m table, type Bufferstrecke, Rapid CNC water drainage slotter,
Model (6) Teil 1, 3m offload conveyor table
Waste Conveyor and elevator
Rapid cyclone single bag extractor, Rapid power supply plant
Rapid electronic computer control terminal
Zebra 105 SL label printer and similar spare printer, The associated mesh safety barrier to encase machines
The SIP light guard system covering the entire saw line, All associated computer hardware and software

Sold at online sale for £29,510

Aldendorf type F45 sliding table panel saw with DRO - year 2007 - serial No. 07-10-10-159 maximum saw blad 500mm

Sold at an outside sale for £8,000

 

SCM Sandya 3 one metre wide belt (twin drum) sander - year 2004 - serial number AE/026346 together with two extraction points to 1 metre length of galvanized piping

Sold at an outside sale for £5,200

Trumax Atmace 710/G flat bed semi automatic screen printing press

Sold at an online sale for £9,002

 

Brewery Plant & Equipment
Under instructions from Bailiffs following landlords distraint for rent.

Sold by informal tender

(K) Massey Ferguson 240 2wd tractor - 2340 hours

Sold at an outside sale for £5,500

 

Weinig Profimat 22N 5 head planer moulder with CNC control, machine no 226-2404,
year 1989

Sold at an outside sale for £4700

Catering Equipment Sales

Carpigani 191 Nice-Cream bench top ice-cream machine

Sold at Auction for £1050

 

CS Series spiral mixer 2 speed commercial food mixer

Sold at Auction for £420

125cm stainless steel pizza preparation table with shelf under and shelf over

Sold at Auction for £300

 

90cm Imperial pizza preparation table with stone top and 2 door chiller under

Sold at Auction for £250

A 90cm pizza preparation table with stone top and double door chiller under

Sold at Auction for £280

 

A large OEN Bozzolo electric double pizza oven

Sold at Auction for £400

A Orion Dixell 120cm cylinder bench top chiller display counter

Sold at Auction for £200

 

A 30cm meat slicer

Sold at Auction for £110

A Hobart 12 Qt food mixer with tools and bowl

Sold at Auction for £320

 

A La Spazile 2 station coffee machine with matching grinder0

Sold at Auction for £320