Picking a card case is a great deal
This silver oblong card case, engraved with foliage and a monogram, comes under the hammer at Dreweatts 1759's Bristol salerooms at Apsley Road on Tuesday. These cases are of no great size, less than 10cm long, but the current high price of precious metals and the continuing collectability of well-crafted little pieces of silver means that a hammer price of £100 to £150 should be the order of the day.
There's nothing too pretentious about this provincial feather-banded walnut chest-on-chest at Gardiner Houlgate's sale in Corsham on June 25, but as good, honest pieces of furniture go, it could just take off. Dating from about 1710 to 1720, it is of a type rarely enough seen in the saleroom to prompt expectations of bidding up to about £2,000.
A star of the 1969 film Monte Carlo or Bust!, one of those great bank holiday standbys, this rare 1923 Clement-Talbot is likely to bask in the limelight once more at Charterhouse's next auction of classic cars and motorbikes at Sherborne Castle – a new venue, and an exciting one – on July 19. Owned by the vendor since the hot summer of 1976, it is one of only 42 believed to have been made, and comes with a four-door open tourer body, a 1075cc engine coupled to a three-speed gearbox, attractive green over black livery and a cream interior. The downside: it has not been used since 2005. But it's still a little cracker, and should sell for about £20,000 – after which, of course, the spending begins.
With David Dickinson's Real Deal TV team in attendance, the Cotswold Auction Company is looking forward to a busy day at Chapel Walk, Cheltenham on Tuesday – as is the young lady seen here. A late Georgian painted wooden doll with an estimate of £600 to £1,000, she has been in the same family for generations – given to the vendor by her grandmother and previously owned by her great-grandmother. After 40 years of sitting in a cabinet, the doll is in excellent condition, with healthy rosy cheeks and her original hair, which can't be said of many 200-year-olds. All in all, the hope is that she'll be a bobby-dazzler in the true Dickinson tradition.
If you're wondering how the Scottish Colourists acquired their name, this still life with a geranium and vase by Anne Redpath should tell you all you need to know. In fact, the unframed oil on board comes with a bonus extra, since its reverse carries another work by the artist, a landscape scene of cottages at Howick. Anne Redpath, who died back in the Sixties, now commands huge money, and you can be sure that if these were two separate paintings, they would carry an estimate considerably greater than their joint £20,000 to £30,000.
This big original poster artwork for the 1973 farrago Carry on Girls, 61 by 81cm, is by a true master of the genre, Arnaldo Putzu, who captures Sid James, Barbara Windsor and the rest with an irresistible mix of accuracy and comic strip cheek. It's on gouache on board with the red sash left blank for the title to be onlaid, and an initialled note from an art editor reads: "I think that the title should print yellow on the sash – if it prints white it will be weak and look like there's a hole in the drawing". On offer at Dominic Winter's children's and illustrated book sale at South Cerney on June 18, it is estimated at £2,000 to £3,000.
June 27 brings the next sale of vintage advertising at Chippenham Auction Rooms, a buoyant market in which auctioneer Richard Edmonds has cut quite a profitable little niche. In fact, on the strength of recent successful forays, this is the first sale at Chippenham devoted to point of sale material and enamel signs alone, and it will become an annual event if all continues to go as well as it's doing at present. One of the most sought-after lots of the day could well be this Askeys figure, which carries the considerable estimate of £1,500 to £2,000. In fact the company, which started in London in 1910, specialised in making cones, wafers and so on, rather than ice cream itself – and it still does so, from Peterborough, as part of the Silver Spoon sugar conglomerate. The chap seen here might look like a refugee from another age, but Askeys cornets live on by their millions every year.









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