Blackhead on Roundhead
A gold coin depicting Oliver Cromwell – wart and all – may fetch £150,000 at auction. John Vincent reports.
Cool advice: A late 18th century fan, called The Lady’s Adviser, Physician and Moralist or Half an Hour’s Entertainment at the Expense of Nobody, proved a hit at Tennants. The leaf presents a series of six “how to” questions and answers such as “How to fall violently in Love”. It went for £2,400 against an estimate of £400-£600.
For pieces of silver: A rare William and Mary silver tankard and cover, York, 1691, engraved with the arms of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, is listed at £7,000-£9,000 at Woolley & Wallis in Wiltshire next Saturday. A Victorian silver vinaigrette depicting York Minster has a guide price of £1,000-£1,500 and a modern silver goblet by Hull-born Gerald Benney is expected to fetch £200-£300.
Tram line: A trade pack of six pre-war Dinky tramcars, all promoting Ovaltine, went for £3,840 at Vectis of Thornaby, against an estimate of up to £700. A blue 1960s bubble car by Benbros Zebra Toys realised £2,040, four times more than expected.
Sheer brilliance: A Raindance ring by Boodles, with nine brilliantcut diamonds set in platinum, realised just over £20,000 at the Scarborough salerooms of David Duggleby, where an American Waltham Watch Company Riverside full-hunter pocket watch with five-minute repeater went for £4,200.
Wading in: Headingley-born
Patrick Heron’s three gouache pictures, Interlocking Browns and Olive February 1966; April: 1967; and 28 October: 1996, sold for £22,750, £10,835 and £10,200 respectively at a Bonhams Modern British and Irish Art auction.
Over the moon: John Atkinson Grimshaw’s Under the Silvery Moonbeams (1882) fetched £237,500 and his Roundhay Park Lake £56,250 at a Christie’s online British and European Art auction.