ANTIQUES SALE

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31332, 31 March 1967, Page 12

ANTIQUES SALE

Top Price Of £875

A collection of 91 gold sovereigns, all of different dates from 1817, was sold for £875 at an auction sale of antiques held yesterday at the Kaiapoi premises of R. G. Bell and Company, Ltd. There was spirited bidding for the 400 lots, which included antiques, Maori artifacts, paintings, silverware, jewellery, and ceramics.

The second-highest figure of £365 was paid for a Georgian four-piece silver tea-set made by John Walton in 1812. Among the offerings were the following, the price being given in parentheses: Eight mahogany diningchairs (£248), 40-piece tea-set signed E. Philips (£145), a French Empire-period candelabra with ormolu mounts and decorated with semi-preci-ous stones (£150), mahogany 100 table (£7O), French ormolu and Sevres clock and supports (£9O), Victorian wine cabinet (£B6), Chippendale chair about 1775 (£80). Unusual pieces were early Colonial double-bed ends (£33), Royal amphora vase (£65), Victorian carved and beaded firescreen (£27 10s), a pair of Bohemian glass vases with hand-painted portraits (£26), and a leather, brass-studied, coach bullion box (£2l).

A water-colour by J. C. Hoyte realised the top figure for paintings of £lO5, and among the artifacts were a whalebone carver’s mallet (£2 10s), a greywacke adze (£lO 10s), a greenstone pendant (£l5), and a stuffed kiwi in a glass case (£11).