Summary
An Extended Two Day Antiques and Collectables Auction of silver, ceramics, works of art, pictures and furniture held at our Exeter salerooms.
This auction has 995 fine art lots.
Sale Notes
There was a period when advertising seemed so much more direct and honest in
that it merely seemed to present the product you should buy, sometimes with a rather
flimsy strap line, and that was that. Examples of this early advertising include
a table top cigarette box advertising Balkan Sobranie Cigarettes (EX153/504) estimated
at £40-£60. There is also a copy of a classic John Gilroy designed poster advertising
Guinness (EX152/852) showing a workman lifting a girder with a single hand above
the caption Guinness For Strength for which offers of £60-£80 are expected.
However, if your budget is smaller, you might like some barely politically correct
posters for New York and London music publishers, one of them advertising The
Darktown Strutters Ball (EX153/799).
Elsewhere, the sale boasts entries from the four corners of the globe with Lalique
glass from France, majolica from Italy and porcelain from China and a Schuco novelty
windup toys from Germany in the form of a dancing mouse (EX153/829) and an Austrian
cold painted bronze of a bulldog (EX153/828). However, homespun tastes are also
catered for with a good single owner collection of Torquay and Barnstaple pottery
made from our own red clay soils, if they haven't all been washed into the seas
by another winter storm.
Those with more contemporary taste may prefer a porcelain tea service from the
studio of David Leach (EX153/497), estimated at £150-£250 or bespoke pieces from
one of the other locally based potters Richard Batterham and Colin Kellam.
However, for those with the most refined taste there is a Patek Philippe gentleman's
Ellipse wristwatch (EX153/50) if you have £4,000 to spare and also a platinum, ruby
and diamond mounted ring (EX153/197) that seems positively affordable by comparison
with a pre-sale estimate of £900-£1,000.
Order of Sale
The order of sale will be:-
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Tuesday, 16th February 2016 10:00am
Day One (starting at lot 1)
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Wednesday, 17th February 2016 10:00am
Day Two (starting at lot 616)