Ever-popular entries such as seating furniture and oak dresser bases were also in the money. A hide-upholstered carver, catalogued as 18th century style, with plain back, slightly splayed arms and splayed feet took £1900, and two period 18th century oak bases offered a 5ft 5in (1.65m) wide example contested to £1650, and one just half an inch wider which brought £1500.
The musical high note of the collectors’ sale was a C. Wheatstone & Co, 48-key treble concertina in a wooden case, 61/4 in (15.9cm) which went over estimate at £520, while an Allwin De Luce oak cased wall-mounted penny-arcade amusement machine 20in (50.8cm), fetched £360.
Most entries, however, were pitched below £100, including a group of 10 powder flasks that all found buyers at £22 to £45, and a group of Thirties car chrome mascots on marble stands, including a kneeling winged angel at £90 and a Speed Nymph, pictured, at £80.
Keys, Aylsham,
June 14, 26, 27
Buyer’s premium: 11.75 per cent (incl VAT)
Supper table at £2450 heads a feast of furniture on a budget
MAINTAINING their policy of high-content, budget priced sales, the Norfolk auctioneers Keys put up a bumper June offering with a 1540-lot antique sale on June 26 and 27 following a 1236-lot collectors’ sale on June 14. Occasionally there emerges a high-priced star at these antiques offerings but in the quieter days of summer the best bid came for a Georgian-style pedestal birdcage supper table, 3ft 1in (94cm) which sold at £2450.
