THREE-DAY AUCTION SALE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 298, 13 September 1941, Page 13

THREE-DAY AUCTION SALE

3000 Lots Disposed Of ANTIQUES BRING HIGH PRICES Dominion Special Service. NAPIER, September 11. Buyers from all parts of New Zealand and some from Australia attended a three-day auction sale of the effects ot the late Sir R. D. D. McLean and Lady McLean held by the trustees of the estate in the Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ wool store at Port Ahuriri this week. The valuable nature of the goods led the authorities to take every precaution during tne sale and in the three-day preview, men sleeping on the premises and the police keeping a close watch throughout. The goods occupied approximately douu square feet of space and the store was ideal for the sale. On Tuesday, when some of the most valuable goods were offered, there were more than 300 cars outside the store and several traffic officers were on duty. More than £lOOO worth of articles was sold on the first half-day of the sale, when the drawing-room contents were offered. Among the 3000 lots disposed of during the three days'’of the sale were some 70 travelling trunks, great quantities or linen, blankets, crystal ware, wickerwork and goods ranging from Egyptian tapestries and Charles II documents to a Queen Anne plate. A Louis XIV lady's French mahogany writing desk, with inlaid satinwood and hand-painted china panels mounted with ormulu, brought £54/12/- on the first day. Mrs. A. D. S. Whyte bought a convex Napoleonic mirror for £4o/3/-. A marble-topped Louis XIV inlaid marquetry cabinet brought 26 guineas, another of the same style and period selling for 20 guineas. . .. „ Considerable interest was taken in tne disposal of several antiques, which brought fairly high prices. A plate used on the supper table the night Mary Queen of Scots escaped from Loch Leven Castle, May 2, 1568, realized 10 guineas. Chinaware of a valuable nature sold well, a Crown Derby figure, “Clergyman Up a Tree,” bringing £32. Ten elm chairs were bought for 10 guineas apiece by Mrs. L. C'ollins,_’*lJ<>mewood,” Otane, while a bid of £3l/10/secured a fine mahogany extension table for Mr. G. Ormond. A French ormulu clock reached £35 guineas and was sold to Mrs, Quinn. A sterling silver fruit cup jug was bought by Mrs. Collins for 25 guineas. Twelve Moorish coffee tables, inlaid with ivory and mother of pearl, realized between £4 and £5 each.