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Sale SC31: Maritime, Sporting and Collectors Sale

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Wednesday, 12th August 2020

Okehampton Street, Exeter

One Day Maritime, Sporting and Collectors Auction

Summary

Specialist Maritime, Sporting and Collectors sale held at our Exeter auction rooms in Devon.

This auction has 952 fine art lots.

Catalogue, Notices and Results

Sale Catalogue (Page-by-Page)

Sale Notes

Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood's Maritime, Sporting and Collectors auction of 12th August 2020 has a good selection of items for those who are eagerly awaiting the sale.

As well as Maritime antiques and pictures, there are a number of diecast toys, militaria, medals and an excellent single owner collection of postcards on offer, including a set of five Wrench's 'Links of Empire' postcards of the British National Antarctic Expedition (Discovery Expedition) 1901-1904.

Auction Viewing Notes

Please observe our health & safety precautions throughout our salerooms during your visit.

Contact for Sale

For any information about this sale, please contact:-

Brian Goodison-Blanks

Brian Goodison-Blanks

Tel:	+44 (01392) 413100
EMail:	goodisonblanksb@bhandl.co.uk

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About HMS Foudroyant (1789)

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HMS Foudroyant (1789)

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Maritime and Sporting

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Jewellery and Watches

Sale FS40; Lot: 0773: Franz Bergman, a 19th century Austrian cold painted bronze group of a tiger hunt the Arab astride an elephant with a dead tiger strapped behind, with walking attendant below, stamped to the underside with Bergman vase stamp, 'Geschutzt' stamp and numbered 3412, vase stamp and model No also stamped to the saddle blanket, 23.5cm high, together with two Arab boys with donkeys each bearing Bergman vase stamp, each 14cm high.

Franz Bergman, A 19th Century Austrian Cold Painted Bronze Group of A Tiger Hunt (FS40/773)

Sold for £5,300

Sale FS41; Lot: 0275: Attributed to the Flemish School [17th/18th Century] - Expulsion from the Garden of Eden - oil on canvas 92 x 124cm, unframed.

Attributed To the Flemish School [17th/18th Century] - Expulsion From the Garden ... (FS41/275)

Sold for £2,600

Sale FS37; Lot: 1228: A painted leather four fold screen, decorated with a neo classical garden landscape with a dog chasing two ducks from a pond, within a wide floral and fruiting border, each panel 54.5cm (1ft 9 1/2in) x 190cm (6ft 2 3/4in).

A Painted Leather Four Fold Screen (FS37/1228)

Sold for £1,250

Sale FS40; Lot: 0813: William Creak, Royal Exchange London, an automaton bracket clock the eight-day duration, five-pillar, double-fusee movement having a verge escapement and striking the hours on a bell, with pull-repeat of the last hour at will, with a fully engraved backplate of floral and c-scroll decoration and engraved with the maker's name Wm. Creak, Royal Exchange, London, the brass break-arch dial having a raised silvered chapter ring engraved with black Roman numerals and Arabic outer five-minute markings, with the matted dial centre having a date aperture and inset silvered plaque engraved with a repeat of the maker's signature, with blued steel hands, the arch having a well-painted depiction of a couple in period dress playing badminton within a garden setting with the two racquets moving in sequence as the shuttlecock moves between the two as the clock ticks, the inverted bell-top ebonised case having curved canted corners, coloured glass to the two apertures above the arch of the dial, further decorative glass apertures to the sides, a brass carrying handle to the top and standing on ebonised pad feet, height 47.5cm, handle down, 51.5cm, handle up. * Biography William Creak was a well-regarded maker working in London from circa 1740 until at least 1775, being at the Royal Exchange from 1754. He made a number of fine musical and automata clocks for the Eastern Export market. There are examples of his clocks and watches in various museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum, South Kensington and the Amsterdam Museum.

William Creak, Royal Exchange London, An Automaton Bracket Clock (FS40/813)

Sold for £7,400

Sale FS40; Lot: 0812: Payne, London a boulle bracket clock the eight-day duration, single fusee timepiece movement having an anchor escapement and engraved to the backplate Payne, 163 New Bond St., the round gilt-brass dial with raised decoration and having black Roman numerals to individual shaped cartouches, the enamelled centre signed Payne, 163 New Bond Street, London with blued steel moon hands, the waisted boulle case with engraved inlaid brass decoration to the maroon tortoiseshell, with applied brass mounts and surmounted by rococo decoration, with a glazed front door and sides, height 58cm * Biography William Payne is first recorded at 62 South Moulton Street, London in 1816. by 1825 he had moved to 163 New Bond Street becoming William Payne & Company at that address in 1852.

Payne, London A Boulle Bracket Clock (FS40/812)

Sold for £1,050

Sale FS37; Lot: 1010: A lead figure of a girl clutching a floral garland, mounted on a concrete plinth, total height 94cm.

A Lead Figure of A Girl (FS37/1010)

Sold for £260

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