antiques & fine art sale

A 75 cl bottle of Warre's vintage port 1980.

Sold for £60

A 75 cl bottle of Warre's vintage port 1980.

Sold for £70

+/- A 75 cl bottle of Warre's vintage port 1960, lacking label and with seal damage.

Not Sold

+/- 75 cl bottle of Warre's vintage port 1966, lacking label.

Sold for £50

A 75 cl bottle of Taylor's LBV port 2003.

Sold for £25

A collection of nine pieces of carved and stained alabaster models of fruits.

Not Sold

An early 19th century Italian Giallo Antico marble oval tazza, in the manner of Boschetti, with conforming stepped socle and rectangular base. 10.5 cm high, 36 cm wide (see illustration).

Sold for £700

A tropical carved hardwood model of an African elephant, shown standing in striding motion. 29 cm high, 58 cm long.

Sold for £240

A Victorian mahogany and black transfer printed pottery inset circular teapot stand by Bryden & Sons, 80 Rose Street, Edinburgh and 17 Exchange Place Glasgow, with moulded border on turned feet and castors. 6 cm high, 24 cm diameter.

Not Sold

An early 19th century black papier mache cylindrical wine coaster, decorated with gilded band, 5 cm high, 13.5 cm diameter.

Sold for £70

Two 75 cl bottles of Dow's Renown port, together with one other 75 cl bottle of Dow's Trademark port.

Not Sold

A pair of George IV ormolu and bronzed candlesticks, with leaf capped sconces and bases and reeded stems. 28.5 cm high, together with an early 19th century ormolu roundel, cast in relief with male profile. 11.5 cm diameter.

Sold for £260

Attributed to Keswick School of Industrial Arts, two hand beaten copper signs "Antique" and "Furniture", circa 1910. Each 17 cm x 91 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £750

A pair of Keswick School Arts and Crafts copper vases, with typical embossed decoration, signed Mawson and together with a circular copper tray with convolvulus decoration. Height and diameter respectively 13 cm and 30 cm.

Sold for £140

A Keswick School of Industrial Arts mirror frame, circular with bevelled glass, stamped K.S.I.A. and Keswick A361. Diameter 33 cm.

Sold for £220

A crown shaped glass bottle of port with mitre stopper, to commemorate Coronation 1937, shipped by Hunt Roope Teage & Co.

Not Sold

Josefina de Vasconcellos (1904-2005), a plaster maquette of a sea nymph. Height 63.5 cm.

Not Sold

A First World War autograph album, containing photograph of Royal visits to Workington to meet wounded soldiers, together with autographs from convalescing soldiers from The Border Regiment, Royal Scots Imperial Yeomanry, Highland Light Infantry, Scottish Rifles, Welsh Fusiliers and Australian Regiment along with photograph of the nursing staff at the convalescent hospital in Cockermouth Castle and Penrith.

Sold for £100

"Waterloo Subscription" 30th September 1815. Receipted certificate sent to the Cockermouth Church Warden in acknowledgement of 102 pounds 5 shillings and 3 pence (£102/5/3), collected from the area to aid the widowed and wounded. Together with explanatory leaflet.

Not Sold

A tortoiseshell lidded circular box, with gold and abalone piquet decoration in the shape of a basket of flowers. Diameter 7 cm.

Sold for £80

A pair of pewter spoons made from Eskdale lead for the King of Prussia Hotel, now The King George, complete with reprint "Some Leaden Spoons from Eskdale".

Sold for £110

A Victorian copper coal helmet, with swing handle.

Sold for £110

A large public house sign for "Croglin Castle". Height 134 cm, width 150 cm excluding metal supporting brackets.

Sold for £190

A large iron fire grate, with integral dogs. Height 81 cm, width 98 cm (see illustration).

Sold for £360

A cast iron fire back "The Royal Oak", also moulded GR. Height 76 cm, width 89 cm.

Sold for £150

A wrought iron fire basket, with fire dogs and grate. Width +/- 100 cm, depth +/- 60 cm.

Sold for £70

Three 19th century cast iron stove panels, one by T Altham & Son, Penrith, another by Bowerbank, Penrith and the third Scott & Co, Penrith, together with a stove door.

Sold for £30

A 19th century Indian brass cow, with engraved decoration and raised on a rectangular plinth with bracket feet. Height 14 cm, width 11 cm.

Sold for £35

Horological interest "Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers", 9th edition, together with six further volumes and various catalogues and pamphlets.

Sold for £10

Four Alfred Wainwright first edition signed copies, Fell Walking with Wainwright, Coast to Coast, Wainwright in Scotland and Wainwright on the Lakeland Mountain Passes.

Sold for £190

Alfred Wainwright, "Arran an illustrated guide to the Island", believed to be Alfred Wainwrights personal copy, together with a Pennine Way promotional idea handkerchief.

Sold for £60

A large collection of cigarette cards, 5 in loose albums, mostly complete, football players, cricketers, industry, astronomy, naval flags, ships, locomotives, household hints, modern beauties, etc.

Sold for £80

Fourteen bound volumes Country Life, 1890-1903.

Sold for £160

A vintage photograph album Hong Kong military etc.

Sold for £150

A collection of vintage postcards, French, Italian, motor cars, aviation etc.

Sold for £60

A collection of Irish mint stamp books, face value +/- £300.

Sold for £50

A collection of Isle of Man stamps, 200+ First Day Covers, 200+ mint presentation packs, a mixture of used and mint stamps, mint stamp books etc.

Sold for £70

A collection of Guernsey Channel Island stamps, three albums of First Day Covers, four Stanley Gibbons albums of mint stamps and a small stock book of Guernsey mint stamps.

Sold for £35

A Collection of Channel Island stamps, two Stanley Gibbons albums of Alderney stamps, two albums of Jersey stamps, two albums of Jersey First Day Covers and a selection of Channel Islands stamp books.

Sold for £40

Six albums of Irish First Day Covers 1981-2001.

Sold for £40

Four albums of mint Isle of Man stamps, and a box of First Day Covers and mint stamp books.

Sold for £50

An album of mint Year Pack stamps, and a quantity of presentation packs etc.

Sold for £200

Four stock books of mint GB stamps, and some part sheets and strips of mint stamps.

Sold for £300

A mint collection of George VI World stamps, and an album of GB stamps including 100+ Victorian penny reds and other Victorian stamps and a collection of later GB stamps (majority of stamps in this album are franked) (see illustration).

Sold for £70

Two albums of GB mint gutter pairs (see illustration).

Sold for £80

A collection of Royal Commemorative GB and Commonwealth stamps, seven albums, presentation packs and stamp books.

Sold for £30

A large collection of Irish stamps, four albums of mint stamps, two albums of Year Packs 1995-2016 and one album of First Day Covers etc.

Sold for £110

Eight albums of mint Guernsey stamps, and a collection of Guernsey First Day Covers and definitives, stamp books etc.

Sold for £80

Four albums in slip cases of Irish stamps, in mint condition and a selection of First Day Covers, stamp sheets, stamp books etc.

Sold for £150

Seven albums of Commonwealth Coronation Anniversary stamps.

Sold for £40

Three albums of mint GB stamps, many in blocks, gutter pairs, traffic lights, part sheets, face value +/- £500-£600.

Sold for £280

A collection of Jersey stamps +/- 300 presentation packs, 120+ First Day Covers and a selection of stamp books and loose stamps including Jersey Occupation stamps.

Not Sold

100+ London 2012 Olympic and Para Olympic first class stamps, mint uncirculated and 120+ first class European and World stamps, 20g - 100g, mint uncirculated (see illustration).

Sold for £150

Eight Stanley Gibbons albums of mint GB stamps, mostly complete dating from 1912-2018.

Sold for £950

A collection of stamp books, including fifty Royal Mail Prestige stamp books, all mint unused +/- face value £1200 (see illustration).

Sold for £650

A large collection of stamp books, +/- £1200 face value (see illustration).

Sold for £600

Nine albums of 600+ First Day Covers.

Sold for £48

Five albums of Stanley Gibbons Jersey stamps from 1943-2018, mostly complete albums in mint condition, together with fifty three presentation packs.

Sold for £70

"A History of England" by Hume & Smollett, in three volumes, published by James S Virtue, London, three quarter leather bound with marble page edges (see illustration).

Sold for £40

"The Sunday Magazine" eleven volumes from 1869, 1871 x 2, 1874, 1876, 1875, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1881 and 1885.

Sold for £50

Seventeen volumes of "The Quiver - illustrated magazine for Sunday and General Readings" volumes from 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870, 1873, 1874, 1875 x 2, 1877 x3, 1878, 1879 x 2, 1888 and 1893.

Not Sold

Three volume set of "Henry's Bible", together with a "Life of the Author Matthew Henry", full leather bindings, circa 1854, together with "The Life of Christ" by John Fleetwood, full leather binding 1871 as well as "The Christians Complete Family Bible", printed by Nuttall Fisher & Dixon 1808.

Not Sold

Grey. Henry "Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical", published by Longmans Green & Company 1877, 8th edition, commonly known as Greys Anatomy, three quarter leather binding with marbled page ends (see illustration).

Sold for £100

The History of Scotland by Thomas Wright, 2 volumes, three quarter bound, circa 1860's, and - Old England A Pictorial Museum by Charles Knight, 2 volumes, circa 1870.

Sold for £70

The Works of Shakespeare, Imperial edition, edited by Charles Knight, with illustrations on steel, 2 volumes, published by
Virtue & Co. Ltd., and Holland House by Princess Marie of Lichtenstein, 2 volumes, published by McMillan 1874, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering.

Sold for £30

A collection of poetry books, The Works of Lord Byron, 2 volumes, with notes by William Anderson, published by A. Fullerton & Co. circa 1870, The Poetical Works of William Cowper, 2 volumes, circa 1870, The Poetical of Works of George Herbert, Yung's Night-Thoughts, Chandos Poets Edition of Longfellow and Heber, Poetical Works of Scott, Milton and Cowper and Table Talk and Other Poems by William Cowper, 2 volumes 1788.

Not Sold

The Works of Flavius Josephus by William Whiston, illustrated with engravings on steel and wood, published by James S. Virtue circa 1845, the Antiquities of The Abbey or Cathedral of Durham 1767, Nature and Origins of Evil 1757, Hints towards Forming the Character of a Young Princess by Hannah Moore 1809, Marriage Customs 1814, etc.

Sold for £60

Lectures on The Philosophy of The Mind, by Thomas Brown MD 1848, and an 1842 edition of The Lancet by Thomas Wakley.

Not Sold

GB Mint 1915 2/6 grey brown, right hand marginal black of 4, Stanley Gibbons 407 (see illustration).

Not Sold

Great Britain 1906 1 penny colour trial, very fine, unused, imperforate bottom marginal, example printed in carmine rose on crown watermarked paper, printed from a special plate of 20 electros SG219VAR (see illustration).

Not Sold

Malaya Pahang 1935-41 set of eighteen $5, perfect specimen, various types D19, 20 $1 to $5, 21 3 cents, 8 cents, scarlets, 15 cent, SG 29S/46S (see illustration).

Not Sold

Great Britain 1924 2/- booklet, Edition No. 25, SGBB12 (see illustration).

Not Sold

A selection of 40+ mint GB stamp presentation packs, by Harrisons & Sons Ltd., of mint GB stamps and issue of first day covers, presentation coins and 3 £5 coins.

Sold for £40

Two postcard albums, containing Cumbrian scenes some by GB Abraham and some in colour, early 20th century, 396 cards in total.

Sold for £280

A postcard album "Souvenir of The Sudan" by G.N. Morhig, The English Pharmacy, Khartoum, 100 cards, early 20th century.

Sold for £140

A postcard album, early 20th century topographical, mainly UK, some European, over 140 cards.

Sold for £45

A postcard album, to include humour, topographical, Louis Wain, etc.

Sold for £35

A collection of loose postcards, greetings cards, topography, railway stations, humour, military, etc.

Sold for £240

Ten Wisden Cricketers Almanacks, 1947 softback, 1948 softback but missing cover, 1952 hardback, 1955, 58, 59, 61, 62 and 63 softback editions.

Sold for £150

Fifteen Wisden Cricketers Almanacs, two Wisden Anthologies and The Wisden Book of Cricket Lives, Wisden softback editions 1964-1976 inclusive, 1979, 1984 hardback, Wisden's Anthology 1940-1963 and 1963-1982, the Wisden Book of Cricket Lives (18).

Sold for £90

Two albums of GB and world stamps, mostly pre-war, Victorian penny reds, two penny blues, quantity of Edward VII, George V and George VI stamps, etc., mint and used, some part sheets, franked and stamped envelopes and postcards, etc.

Sold for £190

Album of world stamps, presentation packs of mint GB stamps, stockbook of mint and mounted GB stamps, an album of GB mint stamps, some gutter pairs and traffic lights and a folder of mint GB gutter pairs.

Sold for £60

Four albums of first day covers +/- 100, plus four albums of mint unused world stamps.

Sold for £30

250+ first day covers.

Not Sold

300+ mint stamp booklets, mostly farm buildings.

Sold for £50

Forty seven Benhams silk first day covers, and twelve mint stamp books.

Sold for £40

A collection of commonwealth stamps, definitives, gutter pairs, mint stamp books, small sheets, for St Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, Antigua, Tonga, St Vincent etc.

Not Sold

Two boxes of mountaineering books, "The Alps in 1864" by A.W. Moore volumes 1 & 2, "The Scottish Himalayan Expedition" by W.H. Murray, "Cornish Rock" by Tim Denwell, "No Picnic on Mount Kenya" by Felice Benuzzi etc. (49).

Sold for £45

A collection of hunting books, If St Peter Has Hounds" by Tony Harvey, "The Northern Meeting 1788-1988" by Angus Fairrie, "Hunting in The Lake District" by Shaun Frain, "Mine Eyes to The Hills, an Anthology of The Highland Forest" by P.R. Chalmers etc. (9).

Sold for £15

A box of railway books, "The Country Railway" by David St John Thomas, "Rail Rover" by D Fereday Glenn, "Changing Tracks" by Roger Shenton, "Railways Restored 1999", "Lost Lines London" etc.

Not Sold

Fridtjof Nansen "Farthest North", two volumes published by George Newnes 1898, with illustrated boards, "Life and Explorations of Fridtjof Hansen" by J Arthur Bain (see illustration).

Sold for £80

"Dear Mary, Love Percy - A Creative Thread", edited by David A Cross, Kendal, Skiddaw Press, 2011 first edition.

Sold for £30

"State Craft" by Margaret Thatcher, signed first edition, Harper Collins 2002.

Sold for £360

A George III Vellum document, relating to Cumberland and Land, Chattels, Mines and Quarries and compete with original seal. Dated in ink 1773.

Sold for £120

Butler (Samuel), "An Atlas of Ancient Geography", published by Longman Rees et al, London 1826/7, in red three quarter leather binding with marbled boards.

Sold for £20

An untitled early 19th century miscellany, containing an extensive selection of monochrome plates from Architecture to Surgery, published by James Cundee, Albion Press, London 1811, in gilt tooled brown leather binding.

Sold for £90

"British Mammals", 2 volumes, by A. Thorburn, published by Longmans Green & Co. 1920, with 50 plates in colour and pen and ink sketches in the text, red cloth boards.

Sold for £50

MILTON, "Paradise Regained", leather bound 2 volume edition 1760, printed by C. Hitch and L. Hawes.

Sold for £100

Grays Poems 1786, Selected Poems and Tragedies by Victor Hugo 1890, Tennyson's Works 1926, Keat's Poetical Works 1925, Longfellow's Poetical Works 1908, and Bloomfield's Poems 1801.

Sold for £60

Englishmen of Letters, 8 volumes, published by McMillan & Co. 1882, to include Swift, Gibbon, Pope, Coleridge, Sheridan.

Sold for £140