18 11th February 2012 auction previews
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1. This 15ct gold chalice and paten by Omar Ramsden will be offered during the second day of Dominic Winter’s sale on February 8-9 in South Cerney, Gloucestershire. The chalice, estimated at £12,000-18,000, dates from 1927 and is one of over 100 lots of church plate, pictures and antiques from St Augustine’s Abbey in Ramsgate, Kent. After 150 years, the current community of 11 monks have just moved from their Pugin-designed home to Chilworth Friary in Surrey. Contact 01285 860006
www.dominicwinter.co.uk
2. This Irish silver potato ring was brought in by a local Derbyshire client at a recent valuation day at Hanson’s new auction
centre in Etwall, Derby. Such rings were placed under wooden bowls fi lled with hot baked potatoes to protect polished tables from the heat. This example was made in Dublin in 1764 during the early years of George III’s reign by silversmith John Craig and is estimated at £1500-2000 in Hanson’s sale on Febraury 16 in Etwall. Contact 01283 733988
www.hansonsauctioneers.co.uk
3. Sworders’ sale on February 21 in Stansted Mountfi tchet, Essex, is to include this rare silver verge shutter dial watch, made c.1710 in London by German-maker John Bushman. Only a few examples of this type are known. One, also signed Bushman, in the collection at the V&A in London. Estimate
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£5000-7000. Contact 01279 817778
www.sworder.co.uk
4. A private collection of six tiger skins shot in India during the 1920s are up for auction at Andrew Hilditch & Sons on February 14-15 in Sandbach, Cheshire. Pictured here is a fully felt-lined 9ft 3in (2.84m) skin mounted by Indian taxidermists Theobold Bros, Mysore (numbered 10795/18). Estimate £1000-1500. Contact 01270 767 246
www.andrewhilditchauctioneers.co.uk
5. In Carlisle on February 17, Thomson, Roddick & Medcalf will offer this illumintaed manuscript by Countess Constance de Markievicz (1868-1927) with
a three-verse poem entitled Heroic Death by her sister Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926). Born into Irish ascendancy, both reacted against their privileged upbringing and became extremely active politically with Constance participating in the 1916 Easter Rising, after which she was condemned to death but later reprieved. As part of her involvement with the Suffragette movement, Constance also spent time in Holloway prison where she exercised her artistic talents. This 9½in x 6in (24 x 15cm) illuminated watercolour, gouache and gold paint on card is signed ‘C de M, Holloway Jail, Feb 1919’ and was passed down by descent from the Scottish suffragette Ethel Moorhead. Estimate £2000-3000. Contact 01228 528939
www.thomsonroddick.com
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