Newcastle upon Tyne saleroom Anderson & Garland is offering an American colonial map cow-horn powder-horn in the Militaria auction on American Independence Day, July 4.
Relating to the French and Indian wars, c.1760, it is decorated in scrimshaw work with a map of the Hudson River from Lake Ontario to New York, a strategically important area during the era, plotting forts and towns along the way. It is also decorated with ships, a hunting scene, Hanoverian royal coat of arms and a crest.
The powder horn - pictured top - is 12in (30cm) long and is fitted with a horn nozzle mount (although it is missing part of its nozzle and base).
Estimate £3000-5000.
Pair of 18th century giltwood chairs gifted by by Pope Pius XII to Count Niko Mirošević-Sorgo, estimate £1000-1500 at Reeman Dansie.
Featuring in Reeman Dansie’s July 2-3 Fine Art auction is the Mirošević-Sorgo Collection. Removed from two London flats in Kensington and Earl’s Court, the 180-lot collection comprises fine furniture, Old Master paintings and icons, silver, Classical antiquities and curios, all by family descent.
The Mirošević-Sorgo family were Dubrovnik nobility who emigrated to the UK in the 1940s. They counted among their members Count Niko Mirošević-Sorgo (1885-1966), Yugoslavian ambassador to the Vatican, who was gifted this pair of 18th century giltwood chairs by Pope Pius XII and family tradition maintains the chairs were originally in the Vatican.
They are estimated at £1000-1500 in this Colchester auction.
Dominion High Grade Motor Spirit enamel advertising sign by Bruton, estimate £1500-2000 at Richard Edmonds.
The sale of automobilia at Richard Edmonds in Chippenham on June 29 includes this rare 4 x 3ft (1.23m x 91cm) Dominion High Grade Motor Spirit enamel advertising sign by Bruton.
Dominion was launched in 1923 but was quickly swallowed up by Sealand Petroleum so relatively few products carrying the name survive.
Estimate £1500-2000.
A portman upholstery three-seat calico settee by Colefax and Fowler, estimate £600-900 at Dore & Rees.
Dore & Rees is offering over 300 lots from Turville Grange, Buckinghamshire, and Eaton Square, the British residences of the Ford family.
The July 3 sale in Frome features quality furnishings procured and styled by Sibyl Colefax and John Fowler plus the personal effects of the late Kathleen DuRoss Ford, including a collection of vintage handbags.
Henry T Ford II purchased Turville Grange from Prince Stanislas and Lee Radziwill, the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy. It was shortly after he married Kathleen DuRoss in 1980 that Colefax and Fowler were engaged to remodel the interiors.
Current Colefax and Fowler chairman Wendy Nicholls, who worked directly with the Fords as a young designer, recent gave a talk at a preview event recalling the commission. “As a slightly terrified 25-year-old I would be telephoned by Henry Ford; he always rang me himself, it was one of his more attractive characteristics – he never got a secretary to ring you – he just said: ‘Wendy, it’s Henry. Can you come and have lunch?’”
Pictured here is a portman upholstery three-seat calico settee by Colefax and Fowler, with a cream-coloured fuchsia quilted loose cover and three matching throw cushions.
Estimate £600-900.
First three (of four) volumes of the South Polar Times, estimate £3000-5000 at Taylors Auctions.
The sale of Antiquarian & Collectable Books at Taylors Auction Room, Montrose, on June 27 includes the first three (of four) volumes of the South Polar Times. The magazine was created by the crew of the two Antarctic voyages led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott: the Discovery Expedition (1901-04) and the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13).
It was reproduced by the Folio Society in London in 1907 and 1914. This copy, including six mounted photographs in Vol III and a folding map in Vol II, has a guide of £3000-5000.
North Italian Renaissance period tabernacle form caved giltwood mirror, estimate £800-1200 at Phixius Auctions.
This north Italian Renaissance period tabernacle form carved giltwood mirror has a guide of £800-1200 at Phixius Auctions in Warminster on June 28.
The Sultan/Aurora by The Squires, one of Neil Young’s first bands, pressed in Canada in 1963, estimate £3000-3500 at Hansons.
One man’s lifetime collection of 1500 vinyl records on offer at Hansons in Etwall, Derbyshire, on July 3 includes one of the rarest singles in the world.
The Sultan/Aurora by The Squires, one of Neil Young’s first bands, was pressed in Canada in 1963. Young was 17 when it was recorded. It is thought only 300 copies of the 45rpm 7in single were ever made. Some 61 years later only around 8-10 are known to exist.
However, one is estimated at £3000-3500 as part of the collection amassed by Pete Anderson now up for auction. In 2009 he flew all the way to Winnipeg in Canada to buy the elusive single from a private collector who had owned his copy since its original release.
“After some back and forward negotiation he agreed to sell his copy to me for $2750 (£2170)”, says Anderson. “And yes, I did track down a UK owner, but sadly he didn’t want to sell, which was completely understandable, I suppose. So, off I travelled to Winnipeg.”
The collection includes 120 Neil Young records overall.
Watercolour and ink on paper by Glasgow Girl Elizabeth Mary Watt titled Faeries, estimate £600-900 at McTear’s.
This watercolour and ink on paper by Glasgow Girl Elizabeth Mary Watt (1886- 1954) titled Faeries has a guide of £600-900 at McTear’s in Glasgow on July 3.
Doulton Lambeth stoneware architectural statue and birdbath modelled as Puck seated by a pool, a design c.1900 by Harry Simeon, estimate £500-800 at Gardiner Houlgate.
This Doulton Lambeth stoneware architectural statue and birdbath modelled as Puck seated by a pool is a design c.1900 by Harry Simeon. Measuring 2ft (60cm) across, it carries an estimate of £500-800 as part of the June 27 sale at Gardiner Houlgate in Corsham, near Bath.
Corgi Chipperfields Gift Set (1st issue), estimate £260-300 at Vectis.
Corgi’s commercial deal with Chipperfields Circus spawned a wide range of animal carriers and circus vehicles in the famous red and blue colour scheme that occupied two pages of the company catalogues for many years in the 60s-70s.
This ‘good’ example of the popular Chipperfields Gift Set (1st issue) has a guide of £260-300 as part of the Specialist Diecast & Model Auction at Vectis in Stockton-On-Tees on July 4.
The sale at Eastbourne Auctions on July 3-5 includes this Georgian gold and watercolour painted mourning brooch finely engraved with flowers and seed pearls. It has a presentation inscription to the reverse reading On Earth Revered, in Heaven Blessed, Matthew Walker died 21st November 1818 aged 63.
Estimate £400-600.
