TOP SELLING LOTS
Kinghams, Moreton-in-Marsh, October 9
William Moorcroft for Shreve and Co, San Francisco, a Claremont three-piece silver overlay tea set.
Estimate: £9000-12,000
Hammer: £20,000
Stroud Auctions, October 6
With The Beatles signed LP sleeve, autographed to the back by all band members.
Estimate: £2000-4000
Hammer: £15,500
William George, Peterborough, timed online sale ended October 7
Audemars Piguet Royal Oak royal blue 18K rose gold watch, 14800OR.
Estimate: £14,200-15,600
Hammer: £14,000
Rob Michiels Auctions, Bruges, October 8
A polychrome ‘grotesque’ dish with a putto holding an orb, Willem Jansz Verstraeten, Haarlem, 1645-55.
Estimate: €4000-8000
Hammer: €17,000 (£14,660)
HIGHEST MULTIPLE OVER TOP ESTIMATE
Greenslade Taylor Hunt, Taunton, October 7
Assorted photographs including three daguerreotype stereo portraits by TR Williams (seven in total).
Estimate: £30-40
Hammer: £1900
Stroud Auctions, October 6
Theodore Howard Somervell, OBE, FRCS (British 1890- 1975), oil on canvas of Mount Everest from base.
Estimate: £100-200
Hammer: £7500
Source: Bid Barometer is a snapshot of sales on thesaleroom.com for October 6-13, 2021.
‘Highest multiple over top estimate’ = Our selection of items from the top 20 highest hammer prices as a multiple of the high estimate paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com
‘Top selling lots’ = Our selection of items from the top 20 highest hammer prices paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com
