Western Morning News (Saturday)
Speakers crank up bidding volume to sell for £6,400
dish making the top of its estimate at £800 and a late 16th century map of Land’s End securing £1,100.
A small but tired Georgian chest with faults made £120 while a large late Victorian oak table made £240. A wooden cane armchair secured interest at £170 and a pair of 1920s bedside cabinets made £120. A Victorian mahogany half tester bed had interest at £310 and a modern cherry wood dresser found a new home at £150.
Antique jewellery has a very strong following at South East Cornwall’s leading saleroom and a Essex crystal fox brooch did not disappoint with a phone bidder outgunning determined local interest at £660.
A vintage 18ct gold bracelet saw interest at £1,350 while a marquise cut diamond solitaire sold for
£680. Pretty much every silver lot sold with a canteen of silver cutlery making £1,850 and a modern silver service £410. A Georgian silver jug secured bids of £200 despite being re-assayed and a pair of silver sauce boats made £160.
Miscellany lots saw continued interest online. A 1930s chrome cocktail dial made £85 and a vintage dice spinning game made £45. Stamps too had their moments with a contemporary album securing £300.
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