Our irregular spotlight on the amusing and downright weird from our local auction houses.
A brass and glass cylindrical clock, the hours marked on a brass sphere with moving miniature fish.
A decorative picture of a 1914 London bus, made from watch parts …
An 833 silver small tray, and 3 800 forks and a similar souvenir teaspoon, 8.2 ozs, together with 6 fish knives and 11 forks with filled silver King’s pattern handles, 2 foreign small forks, and 4 brushes with blue enamelled silver backs
Yes, I read that as three thousand eight hundred forks as well!
A wonderful interesting lot on two shelves including old tins, a light depicting a golf ball and club, bakelite objects, cameras, an unusual dome barometer, medicine bottles, shells, postal scales, Davey lamp, miniature dominoes, a tin of old brass door furniture, cast iron stamps, etc.
You just know anything beginning “an interesting lot” is going to be a pile of old toot.
An old boxed brass and iron sexton marked Hezzanith endless tangent screw, an electrical Weston Union Cablegrams sign, and a boxed wind meter marked V.E.B. Anemometerbou, Dresden.
And who doesn’t want an “endless tangent screw”?
Four cuckoo clocks, Bonzo figurine and ashtray, wooden shoetrees, two tambourines, five cameras … Matchbox Rolls Royce, a pair of barleytwist candlesticks, fire warden/football rattle, etc.
A shelf of god quality glass including a quantity of lustre drops and facetted spheres, studio glass blue and amber vase, lampshades, vases, glasses, pintray, cakestand, a brass light fitting in the form of a flying cherub, etc.
With a flying cherub it must be “god quality”!
An old swordfish rostrum, 33 ins long
Makes a change from the usual collection of stuffed beavers and foxes.
2 African throwing spears in leather and fur, each with with steel blade and pointed end, 32 ins.
A Portuguese caldas Palissy ware dish applied with amphibians on a shredded ground, and a pottery portrait roundel of Dante with wrought iron suspension dated 1871-1921.
A moose head with six point antlers on shield shape wall mount.
A 1950′s full length beaver lamb coat with bobble buttons.
Two cartons containing 1920′s and 30′s under garments including satin embroidered nightdresses, silk underwear and stockings, wool ‘Chilprufe’ long johns, many in original packaging, Aertex vests, children’s knitted slippers with leather soles, knitted bootees and socks, fur tails, etc.
An ancient wheelbarrow in creosoted elm with an iron wheel.
