Recent Results
Penrith Farmers & Kidd's Autumn sale of
antiques and collectables brought a second record hammer total
within a year. In what has been a very busy year for the
saleroom the Autumn 2 day sale realised £265,000. The
first day of the sale included the estate of the late Adele Le
Bourgeois Alsop, Greystoke, widow of Lt. Col. The Hon H.A.C.
Howard CMG. The sale started well with lot 1 a 1983
Mercedes Benz 380sl being knocked down at £4,400. The
first lot of the Howard estate went well, a 19th century hand
painted fan went to a live online bidder from overseas for £750.
The next lot to note was a 19th century patchwork coverlet
(which had failed to sell in one of the large Scottish auction
rooms with a £200-300 estimate); it was eventually sold for
£3,500 to the London trade after a battle between an American
phone bidder and another American buyer from within the room.
Prices remained high thought the sale with many lots far
exceeding the top estimate. The silver section backed by
the high precious metal price left no lots unsold. This
led us on tot the ceramics section with in the European section
one item to note was an 18th century Maresille 'Veuve Perrin
Faince desk stand which was again sold live online at £1,300.
The Oriental section had its usual large interest from Chinese
buyers who bought most lots online, although some top end lots
were bought in the room with a notable presence from the Far
East. Some star lots from this section being £5,000 for 20
pieces of Famille Noire Porcelain wares, £5,600 for two Chinese
carved pendants, and £1,900 for a Chinese Lacquered Root-wood
Sage's staff. Also from the Far East was an Anglo-Indian
sandalwood and ivory veneer writing slope, again from a local
estate which brought £2,000. The book section was topped
by a signed first edition 'The House of Pooh Corner' by A.A.
Milne sold to the London trade at £800. Sourced locally a
large painting section was unsurprisingly topped by the front
cover lot, an oil on canvas by Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981)
depicting seagulls by a sandy bay on the Isle of Canna.
Nicholson lived locally at Boothby, near Lanercost and this is
one of a number sold by PF&K over recent years, but this one
brought in the highest price of the auction at £40,000. It
was eventually purchased locally after phone and internet
interest worldwide. Prices for furniture have picked up
over the last couple of years and this was reflected in over 90
percent selling. With local provenance a small 19th
Century mahogany bookcase started things well at £3,800 followed
by a 1930's burr walnut bedroom suite at £1,000, a wellington
chest from another local estate making £1,100. The two
star lots of furniture were a 19th century tub armchair making
£2,900 and the anticipated 19th Century ebonised and gilt
continental bookcase which was originally removed from Hampton
Court and was in a rather distressed state. However it
still topped the bidding online to bring £10,000 on the hammer.
Over the years we have built up our specialist jewellery sales.
With the success of these sales we decided to utilise the
expertise of John Stephenson (local coin specialist) to assist
with the coin auctions alongside these sales. So day two
of the sale was based around coins and jewellery. With the
culmination of precious metal prices, in our in house postal
service, and two on-line 'live' bidding systems in place they
proved ever more popular. In the watch section an 18ct
gold full hunter pocket watch by John Cawley made £1,250 with an
9ct 57gram watch albert following at £1,000. Jewellery was
headed by a 14ct white fold diamond solitaire at £1,600, while
most other lots far exceeded scrap prices for precious metals.
Coins started well with the first 50 lots of British milled
coins being bought on-line by a French buyer all at considerably
more than top estimate. In the gold coins section, a 5
sovereign bracelet made £1,200, a gold proof crown made £1,100.
Banknote also did well with ten unused English one pound notes
making £70. The coin trade in the room were unable to
touch most lots with the on-line interest being so strong.
Sold for £1,250
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Sold for £5,000
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Sold for £1,300
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Sold for £400
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Sold for £750
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Sold for £3,500
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Sold for £1,700
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Sold for 1,600
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Sold for £1,800
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Sold for £1,200
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Sold for £5,600
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Sold for £1,000
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Sold for £1,900
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Sold for £2,000
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Sold for £800
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Sold for £40,000
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Sold for £ 2,100
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Sold for £1,000
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Sold for £3,800 |
Sold for £1,800 |
Sold for £1,900 |
Sold for £10,000 |
Sold for £1,000 |
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