ANTIQUESnews
Imperial bust A marble bust of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus is tipped to fetch
between £120,000 and £150,000 when it goes on sale at Bonhams Antiques auction house in London. The work is dated to approximately 194 AD. Septimius Severus was born in Leptis Magna, in present day Libya, in 145 AD, making him the fi rst African to rule the Roman Empire. During the latter stage of his reign, the emperor fortifi ed Hadrian’s Wall and reclaimed land as far north as the Antonine Wall, but failed to conquer the rest of Scotland. He was forced to retreat due to ill health and he died in 211 AD at Eboracum, the Roman settlement that was later to become York.
HANDS OF TIME A Fladgate bracket clock sold at McTear’s Auctioneers in Glasgow for £8,000 –
eight times its original estimate. The auction house is now gearing up for its next clocks auction, on 13 May. The dedicated auction features clocks and timepieces including longcase, wall, mantel, bracket, cuckoo, strutt, carriage, lantern and atmos clocks. Estimates for lots in the auction start at under £100.
He’s Oor Wullie
Three lots consisting of some of the earliest issues of The Broons and Oor Wullie will go under the hammer at Bonhams Scottish sale on 15 and 16 April in Edinburgh. Lot one features the fi rst Broons annual, from 1940, and is expected to change hands for £3,000-4,000, with the second Broons annual in lot two forecast to fetch £2,500-£3,500. The fi rst Oor Wullie album, from 1941, is predicted to raise £2,500-3,500 in the third lot . Cartoons drawn by artist Dudley Watkins fi rst appeared in the Sunday Post newspaper in 1936. They were so popular that the fi rst annual was printed in 1939, with The Broons and Oor Wullie annuals being published in alternative years. Bonhams says: ‘The early editions of these paperbound comic annuals are particularly scarce.’
Searching the salerooms for interesting lots and the latest prices
Sales dates
NORTH Lindsay Burns, Perth
15 May: General Sale
Curr & Dewar, Dundee 6, 20 May: Antiques & Collectables
EDINBURGH Lyon & Turnbull 7 May: Rare
Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 21 May: Select Jewellery
Shapes 3 May: Fine Art &
Antiques
Bonhams 22 May: Antique & Picture Sale
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Over the asking A collection of medals won by Robert van Zeebroeck, Belgium’s most-successful singles fi gure skater, sold for £8,500 at Shapes auction house in Edinburgh, smashing through the £300-£500 valuation. The lot included his 1928 Winter Olympic bronze medal.
in the television series Downton Abbey has raised £525,000 by selling his collection of antiques. Giles Newby Vincent, who modifi ed the ‘Crawley house’ used in the programme, has also worked for Sir Elton John and Lord Hestletine. His collection was sold at Bonhams, with a George II carved walnut, feather-banded bureau tripling its estimate to reach £80,500. The desk was given as a present during the Second World War with an annotated receipt: ‘To a war worn housewife! Best Christmas Wishes and a tribute of profound admiration, 1942’
Thomson Roddick 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 May: Furnishings & Interiors
GLASGOW Great Western Auctions 10, 24 May:
Antiques & Collectables, 30 May: Sporting Sale
Mulberry Bank Auctions 30-31 May:
Fine Antiques & Collectables
SOUTH Thomson Roddick, Dumfries 6, 20 May: Home
Furnishings & Interiors
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