Antiques & Collectables Wednesday 6th December at 10.30am TO BE HELD AT FARLEIGH COURT, SURREY CR6 9PE Antiques & Collectables Wednesday 6th December at 10.30am VIEWING Tuesday 5th December 9.30am - 5.00pm Wednesday 6th December 9.00am - 10.30am AUCTION AND VIEWING TO BE HELD AT FARLEIGH COURT GOLF CLUB, OLD FARLEIGH ROAD, NR SELSDON, SURREY CR6 9PE Ripley Arts Centre, 24 Sundridge Avenue, Bromley, BR1 2PX Valuation days held here every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 10am and 2pm Welcome to Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers Specialist: Catherine Southon MA Consultants: B arbara Dixon Neassa Quinn Mark Stacey Sale Administrator: Nicola Minney Auction Enquiries and Information: 07596 332978 07808 737694 Email: [email protected] Auction Venue: Farleigh Court Golf Club, Old Farleigh Road, Nr Selsdon, Surrey CR6 9PE Office: Ripley Arts Centre, 24 Sundridge Avenue, Bromley, BR1 2PX Tel: 0208 313 3655 (not week of auction) IMPORTANT NOTICES Please note that purchased items of furniture must be collected from the auction venue before 4pm on Friday 8th December otherwise buyers will incur storage charges. All other purchases can also be collected during this time. Please note that the condition of items are not noted in the catalogue. Condition reports can be viewed on www.the-saleroom.com COLLECTIONS All lots should be collected on the day of the auction, or on Thursday 7th or Friday 8th December until 4pm. After this time all items of furniture will be shipped to the warehouse where an appointment has to be made for collection. All other items will be available for collection at our office address at Ripley Arts Centre 9.30 - 3pm, Monday - Friday for two weeks after the sale. SHIPPING We are happy to ship non-breakable Mail Boxes Etc. items, please call 07808 737694 for Tel: +44(0)208 649 9777 a quote Email: [email protected] Overseas Shipping: AMS Pack & Send Tel: +44(0)203 818 1980 Tel: +44 (0) 1689 800 688 Email: [email protected] email: [email protected] AUCTIONS We hold regular Antiques and Collectables Auctions, with colour catalogues, on-line catalogues and Live bidding. These auctions take place regularly at Farleigh Court Golf Club, Old Farleigh Road, Nr Selsdon, Surrey CR6 9PE. This venue has plently of free parking and is a short taxi ride from East Croydon Station with directly links to London. The Company trades as Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers Ltd. The Company’s registered office is: Lygon House, 50 London Road, Bromley, BR1 3RA. Company Registration Number 08020183. Registered in England and Wales. www.the-saleroom.com LIVE INTERNET BIDDING - Bid Here Without Being Here All you need is your computer and an internet connection and you can make real-time bids in real-world auctions at the-saleroom.com. You don’t have to be a computer whizz. All you have to do is visit www.the-saleroom.com and register to bid - it’s just like being in the auction room. A live audio feed means you hear the auctioneer at exactly the same time as other bidders. You see the lots on your computer screen as they appear in the auction room, and the auctioneer is aware of your bids the moment you make them. Just register and click to bid! ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES 2 1. A late 19th century mahogany Lazy Susan with raised edge to rim diameter 47cm £50-£80 2. A contemporary pub sign ‘Gold Medal Ales’ of rectangular form with gilt and green lettering on a claret ground 24 x 140cm £60-£80 5. A sailors woolwork picture third quarter 19th century, worked in coloured threads depicting five ships under full sail on simulated seas the ships titled ‘Black Prince, Warrior, Hector, Trinculo’, framed and glazed 32 x 60cm £150-£200 6. A 1920s carved oak framed velvet picture of three owls 3. A German Black Forrest bear with fish the velvet incised and heightened with white and in an ornate carved the bear realistically carved in walking pose oak ‘acorn’ frame total frame: 47 x 59cm with fish in his mouth length 29cm, height £150-£250 20cm £180-£220 7. A Victorian coromandel and silver ladies’ travelling vanity case the simple rectangular case opening to reveal a purple crushed velvet lined case with compartmental interior storing a number of silver topped glass jars hallmarked 1877 and chased with scroll and foliage decoration each with and central cartouche (not engraved), with tray lifting out to reveal storage below and 4. A large bronze figure of a grisly bear further secret realistically modelled, in standing stance drawer below length 38cm, height 20cm width of case £300-£400 31cm £300-£500 BP* - Buyer’s Premium of 21.6% inclusive of VAT @ 20%. 4 Lots marked ‡ will be subject to an additional fee - please see page 88. ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES 8. A large Islamic circular copper tray with bead and fluted border surrounding chased central borders of palm leaves, beads and chevrons diameter: 69.5cm £50-£80 12. A painted portrait of a young girl on ceramic circa 1900, the girl wearing a blue dress with blue ribbon to hair, mounted within a late oval wooden frame overall height 32cm £80-£120 9. A cold painted bronze figure of a horse, in the style of Bergman modelled standing unbridled looking forward, no makers marks, height: 17.5cm, length: 19.5cm £80-£120 10. An Art Deco style mantelpiece a pair of spelter dogs one seated and the other lying upon a stepped red marble base 16 x 39 x 10.3cm £30-£40 11. An Art Deco clock central clock in an alabaster and marble surround, flanked by two playful cats upon an alabaster marble base 25.6 x 41 x 13.5cm £150-£250 BP* - Buyer’s Premium of 21.6% inclusive of VAT @ 20%. Lots marked ‡ will be subject to an additional fee - please see page 88. 5 ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES 13. ‡ A.E Batchelor (British fl. 1920s) illustrator original artwork for the dust cover of ‘Aloysius let loose’ by Klaxon (John Graham, Barbara Bower), published by Collins circa 1950, framed, together with original artwork by Leslie Wood (British 1920-1994) for the dust cover of ‘Unbroken Thread’ by Viscount Templewood, published by Collins circa 1949, signed lower right, framed, label verso, (2) the former 29 x 24cm, 29 x 19.5cm £50-£80 14. ‡ Leslie Illingworth, (Welsh 1902-1979) illustrator ‘Gretchen and the Beast’ drawing published by Punch on 18th of August 1948, signed lower left, framed, notes verso; ‘Album Caran D’Ache’ Album Troisieme, written dedication to ‘Leslie Illingworth from Jon Manchip White 1950’ on inside page; a sketch book with rough pencil sketches, the inside front cover written ‘L.G Illingworth 6 Rue Gevert Paris Animals in the Jardin Des Plantes’ in pencil, together with ‘Illingworth’s War in Cartoons’ by Mark Bryant, autographed by the author, dated 2009 and ‘Illingworth On Target’ by Draper Hill, autographed by the author, dated 1972, (5) total frame: 51.5 x 45.5cm £60-£80 (part) 15. ‡ Leslie Wood (British 1920-1994) illustrator original artwork for the dust wrapper of ‘Storm of Time’, published by Collins circa 1948, signed lower right, framed; together with another Leslie Wood original artwork for a book dust wrapper, framed, (2) total frame: 46.3 x 42.6cm £50-£80 BP* - Buyer’s Premium of 21.6% inclusive of VAT @ 20%. 6 Lots marked ‡ will be subject to an additional fee - please see page 88. ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES 16. ‡ Gilbert Wilkinson (British 1891-1965) illustrator original artwork for the cover of ‘Passing Show’ magazine 2nd of Feb. 1924, framed; together with Charles Tunnicliffe OBE, RA (British 1901-1979) original artwork for the dust cover of ‘The Complete Gardener’ by W.E Shewell-Cooper, published by Collins 1950s, framed, (2) total frame: 40.3 x 41.8cm, 37.7 x 36.5cm £50-£70 17. ‡ Harry Toothill (British 1917-2001) illustrator original artwork for the dust cover of ‘A Sunset Touch’ by Howard Spring, published by Collins 1953, framed; and the original artwork signed Gorham for the dust wrapper of ‘The Companion Guide to the Greek Islands’ by Ernle Bradford, published by Collins 1963, framed, (2) total frame: 41.1 x 35.6cm, 34.6 x 32.2cm £60-£80 18. ‡ Two original artworks for book dust covers and an advertising watercolour, Maurice Wilson (British 1914-1987) illustrator original artwork for the dust cover of ‘How Little We Know’, by Doreen Wallace, published by Collins 1950, framed; Stephen Russ (British 1919-1983) original artwork for the dust cover of ‘The Dianthus’ by Will Ingwersen, published by Collins 1949 and a ‘Boston Rubbers’ advertising showcard, watercolour in frame, (3) total frame: 37.4 x 33.2cm, 31.7 x 34.6cm, 33.2 x 17.9cm £100-£200 BP* - Buyer’s Premium of 21.6% inclusive of VAT @ 20%. Lots marked ‡ will be subject to an additional fee - please see page 88. 7 ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES 20. A pair of C. W. Dixey & Sons tortoiseshell 19. ‡ British School, mid 20th century spectacles made for Sir Winston Churchill a charcoal on paper study of Winston Churchill wearing the full rimmed round glasses with white dot to tip of each his artists hat, indistinct signature lower right, framed total arm to distinguish them as reading spectacles rather than frame: 52.6 x 43.7cm for distance, contained with in a leather spectacle case £100-£200 embossed C.W.Dixey & Son London 1777, together with a typed statement from Director of C. W. Dixey Mr P. Varnes verifying that the spectacles were made for Winston Churchchill and claiming ‘usually three pairs of spectacles were made to Churchill’s prescription and kept at the Cavendish Square showroom later the Wigmore Street practice’ The spectacles were given to the present owner by Mr P.