Three days to sell antiques

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33966, 6 October 1975, Page 14

Three days to sell antiques

It will take three days to auction antiques collected by the late Mrs Margaret Blair Gough, a former managing director of Gough, Gough and Hamer, Ltd, who died in October last year.

The collection has been described by the auctioneers as probably one of the most comprehensive in Australia and New Zealand, and certainly without equal in New Zealand. Some of the items are rare, and others more than 300 years old.

They include Delft, Worcester, Chelsea Derby, and Meissen pieces, most of which are marked and signed; furniture, silver, and old ivory “of rare quality”; and among 100 paintings by noted artists, works by Landseer, Sydney Thompson, Charles Dixon, Margaret

Stoddart, and C. N. Worsley. There are also Maori artefacts, rare books, and jewellery. The public will be able to view the pieces from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Tuesday, October 28 at the Horticultural Hall.

Auctioning will begin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Octobet 29, of 350 porcelain and ceramics lots, and continue into the evening with 100 paintings.

On Thursday the auctioning of more than 500 pieces of ivory, furniture, crystal ware, miniature, Maori artefacts, and miscellaneous antiques will take most of the day; the evening will be devoted to jewellery. Silverware, linen, and books will be the last offered. Bidding on these 300 items will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday.

The auctioneers will be Pyne. Gould. Guinness, Ltd.