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Sale Highlights 2007

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December 2007
	£4,600 Violin, un-labelled with two bows, one stamped Edwin Prager
	£3,600 Violin, label for Paul Bailly & Jean Baptiste Vuillaume of Paris, no.1006
	£2,300 Good 19th century internally decorated apothecaries jar, 24"
	£2,300 Set of ten Victorian rosewood salon chairs
	£2,100 MARION HARVEY Spaniels, Oil on canvas
	£2,100 Late 17th century oak court cupboard, carved initials & date 1694
	£1,900 Five Chinese Guang Xu mark and period teabowls
	£1,850 Pair of Flight Barr & Barr sauce tureens and two matching dishes
	£1,800 Eight day longcase clock, Kitchen & Lloyd, Nantwich, in Liverpool style case
	£1,750 RAF wall timepiece with fusee anchor movement by Elliott
	£1,700 Japanese dark blue ground silver wire baluster vase
	£1,650 Early 19th century long case clock by Robert Green, Edinburgh
	£1,400 Pair of 18th century Chinese powder blue vases with ormulu mounts
	£1,400 Russian icon of Christ - Salvator Mundi
	£1,100 Pair of 19th century Bohemian glass lustres
	£1,020 Book auction. John Hill, Eden or a Compleat Body of Gardening, folio in worn condition, 1757
	£900 Attractive small Victorian gold brooch pendant, c.1890
	£900 Art Deco, late Nancy school, secretaire a abattant
November 2007
	£20,000 Sheila Fell, “Allonby 1979”, oil painting on canvas.
	£3,800 Sheila Fell, Cumbrian Village Landscape, oil painting on canvas, unfinished.
	£3,300 Sheila Fell, Potato Picking at Aigle Gill, oil pastel sketch
	£3,000 Peter Howson, Power and Industry, oil painting on canvas
	£2,500 Book & ephemera auction. Northumberland, single sheet calendar of prisoners including those sentenced to transportation, 1794.
	£1,550 Book & ephemera auction. Collection of photographs relative to the actress, Diana Dors, sold in lots.
	£1,150 Sheila Fell, The artists` father, small oil painting on canvas
	£1,050 Sheila Fell, Seated man, pen ink & charcoal drawing.
	£950 Sheila Fell, Figures on a terrace, pen, ink & crayon drawing
	£780 Percy Kelly, “En Route to Carmarthen”, small pen, ink & wash drawing.
	£760 Book & ephemera auction. Thomas Bewick, a short original manuscript letter, 1801.
October 2007
	£2,400 Set of twelve Anglo Indian watercolour figure studies, c1880s, sold in pairs.
	£1,740 A group of 90 Cumbrian & other hunt badges, and other badges & stock pins.
	£950 Silver tea kettle by Robert Hennell, 1860
	£560 Georgian brass dog collar, Earl of Manchester.
September 2007
	£8,000 Late 19th century gardeners` secretaire cabinet in satinwood & other woods
	£3,800 Romano British sardonyx cameo pendant
	£3,200 Diamond solitaire ring, old cut brilliant, 1.9ct, baguette diamonds to shoulders
	£3200 Victorian dining table
	£2700 Longcase clock by Hugh Cowan, Thurso
	£2000 George III secretaire bow front bookcase
	£1,650 Edward H. Thompson, watercolour, “Tinted by the Setting Sun”
	£1350 Victorian pendant
	£1200 19th century ship builders half hull model
	£1100 19th century cheval mirror
	£1100 Russian desk blotter
	£1,000 Pair of late 19th century Meissen figures, gardener & his companion, some defects
	£810 Pair of Derby figures of a lady & gentleman with their pets
August 2007
	£1,700 Book Auction. Catalogue of Law Books, John Milliken, Carlisle. 3 pages. 1787
	£1,550 Medal & Militaria Auction. 17th century Madrassi sword
	£1,450 Book Auction. Tree, Garden & Shrub Catalogue, Archibald Dickson, Hawick. 40 pages. c.1790s
	£1,350 Book Auction. Garden & Shrub Catalogue, Robert Anderson, Edinburgh. 15 pages. c.1790s
	£950 Medal & Militaria Auction. 18th century brass barrelled blunderbuss, marked Keene & Casswell
	£700 Coin Auction. George IV gold £2 coin, 1823
	£600 Coin Auction. James III, 3rd coinage, gold laurel coin, 1619 -1625
July 2007
	£26,000 Sheila Fell, “Cumberland Landscape II”, large oil painting on canvas
	£25,000 Helen Bradley, “Going along Spring Lane”, oil painting on canvasboard
	£9,000 Solitaire diamond ring, champagne yellow brilliant
	£4,400 Norman Wilkinson, Houses of Parliament from Lambeth, oil painting on canvas
	£3,400 Lalique “Pierrefonds” amber glass vase
	£2,300 Thomas Bushby, Wetheral Viaduct, watercolour
	£2,000 & £1,200 Two good 19th century glass apothecary jars, 21½” high
	£2,000 Peter Howson, “The Retreat of Don Quixote”, pastel
	£1,900 Percy Kelly, “The Blue Door”, watercolour & gouache
	£1,900 Jaipur, India, diamond and enamel bracelet
	£1,450 Large 19th century documentary Sunderland lustre jug
	£1,400 19th century cast iron royal crest
	£1,250 Rare William de Morgan underglaze blue painted tile
	£1,100 Peter Howson, “Untitled 1998”, pastel
	£920 Frank McFadden, Despairing Faces, oil painting on canvas
	£920 W.M.F. Secessionist dressing table mirror
June 2007
	£5,000 Rare silver mounted baluster vase, Kangxi
	£4,200 Massive pair of 19th Century Japanese Satsuma vases
	£4,000 William & Mary seaweed marquetry chest
	£3,300 Late 18th Century Chinese black lacquered six panel screen
	£2,600 William Melvin Glass, Coastal Landscape with Rocks
	£1,500 Pair of Chinese blue and white saucer dishes, Kangxi
	£1,450 19th Century or earlier Chinese moon flask
	£1,450 Victorian large rectangular rosewood stool
	£1,400 20th Century Australian Art Pottery bowl, inscribed Arthur M*** Boyd
	£850 Fine Tartanware boxed set of Scott's Poetical works
May 2007
	£6,800 Pair of Jennings and Bettridge vases
	£4,000 Carved Portuguese table cabinet
	£3,600 Victorian oak serving table, carved decoration and naturalistic lion supports
	£3,400 Diamond solitaire ring, approx. 2ct. in platinum
	£3,200 Edwin Hughes, oil on canvas, “The Rivals”
	£3,000 Two 19th century bronze figures of cupid with bow and arrows, signed Lemiere & Moreau Mathurin
	£2,900 From Mrs H. B. Heelis (Beatrix Potter). Group of 5 manuscript letters, mainly on agricultural matters, 1941 - 1943.
	£2,600 Thomas Bushby, watercolour, haymaking scene
	£2,200 Thomas Bushby, watercolour, haymaking scene
	£1,450 Table clock by Yonge & Son, Strand, London
	£1,300 Late 19th Century Chinese silver hemispherical bowl
	£800 Book sale. Rules for the Charity School at Bamburgh Castle, 11 page booklet, 1794.
	£780 Book sale. Priced catalogue of Andrew Lockie, Nurseryman & Seedsman, Kelso, 19 pages, 1793
April 2007
	£6,600 19th century Chinese embroidered silk robe
	£6,600 Jessie M. King, “And there I found the dawn”, line drawing with highlights in gold
	£4,400 Scottish Provincial Silver sale. Very rare single tablespoon by William Livingston of Elgin, c.1725
	£1,950 Scottish Provincial Silver sale. Rare single tablespoon by Colin McKenzie, Edinburgh, 1706
	£1,700 Pair of Georgian mahogany serpentine front knife boxes.
March 2007
	£8,500 Suit of half armour, Italian style of circa 1560, in need of restoration
	£6,000 Johann Hamza, oil painting, “Moliere reading his proscribed comedy, The Palace of Alcina”
	£3,800 Donald McIntyre, oil painting, “Portincaple”
	£2,500 Medal auction, Waterloo Medal to William Duff, 73rd Regiment of Foot
	£2,300 Percy Kelly, painting, “Lorton”
	£2,250 “Mouseman” Thompson oak sideboard
	£2,200 Peter Howson, pastel drawing, “Study for St. Andrew”
	£2,200 19th century Indian painted & gesso balsa wood figures, court room scene
	£1,400 Sir Charles Holmes, oil painting, “The Red Ruin at Lucerne”
	£1,350 Coin auction, Isle of Man gilt proof penny, 1798
	£1,350 Sir Charles Holmes, oil painting, “ Gas Works, Parkgate, Rotherham”
	£1,350 Harry John Pearson, oil painting, “The Red Turban”
	£1,200 Charles Stuart, oil painting, “Sunset on Derwentwater”
	£1,200 Sir Charles Holmes, oil painting, “The Red Engine House, Blackburn”
	£1,100 Sir Charles Holmes, oil painting, “Carlisle Wall”
	£980 Harry John Pearson, oil painting, girls studying in the garden
	£640 Harry John Pearson, oil painting, “Water Nymph”
	£620 Harry John Pearson, oil painting, “Audrey”
	£620 Harry John Pearson, oil painting, building sandcastles
February 2007
	£15,000 Good diamond solitaire ring, approx 5cts.
	£2,900 18th century Chinese export tea & coffee service
	£1,450 Book Auction, Robert Crome, The Compleat Tutor for the Violoncello, 32 pges., 18th century.
	£900 Edward H. Thompson, watercolour, Ashness Bridge
	£800 William Henry Nutter, watercolour, Lanercost Priory
	£620 Book Auction, Mr Ansell, A Catalogue of a Collection of Pictures, the Genuine Property of a Gentleman, 16 pges., 1788
	£560 Beswick figure, Cantering shire in rocking horse grey gloss
	£530 19th century satin stitched picture of a frigate, 9” x 14”
January 2007
	£8,800 Walter Stephens Lethbridge, a lancers officer, c1820, small oil on ivory.
	£2,350 Book auction, 2 volumes, Baron Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws, 1750.
	£1,100 Book auction, 12 volumes, Francis Grose, Antiquities of England & Wales, Antiquities of Scotland & Military Antiquities, 1797.
	£820 Early French live steam model locomotive with carriage & track.