Another in our occasional series highlighting the oddities which turn up at our local auction house. In reading this remember we are talking suburban London, not seaside.
A square of South African grass weaving in yellow, brown, black and orange, size 25″x25″ approximately.
A canteen of plated cutlery for not quite six.
A stuffed gull in a glass case.
A mixed lot including Wallace & Gromit teapot, a pair of large oriental vases, bejewelled scent bottles, wind-up tin-plate Mickey Mouse, a pair of china horses, mottled glass basket, figurine in Highland dress, etc.
A Black Forest gateau carved cuckoo clock, embellished with stag head, hare, game bird.
A fishing creel with leather straps and handle.
A vintage ear trumpet, with telescopic stem, of tortoiseshell appearance.
A vintage model of a goat, in goat fur and simulated horns.
An old wooden box containing old packaging, Fairy toilet soap, old matches, old tins, and a box of old bulbs and Aladdin 2″ wicks, Delsey toilet tissue, soap, etc.
A pair of moulded concrete garden flower pots and a pottery elephant stand.
A baby bath full of old saws, secateurs and similar, an old Ransomes hand push lawn mower and four boxes of old tools, mainly chisels, hammers and spanners.
I’ll just leave your minds to boggle quietly. Although having said that they are also selling a lot of rather nice sounding 18th & 19th century silver and a few valuable Chinese vases. I guess that’s the joy of a “provincial” auction house.
