As you may know, we love perusing auction catalogues and sighing over the fabulous items for sale. Canterbury Auction Galleries is holding a two day auction beginning today and below we show you just a few of the trinkets for sale.
After Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) - Oil painting - Three quarters length portrait of David Garrick seated and wearing a red frock coat, canvas 26ins x 21ins, in moulded gilt frame. Guide Price: £250-350
A late Victorian early 20th Century postcard album containing primarily a group of topographical views, mostly British, and a ditto album containing a collection of "Beauties." Guide Price: £150-200
Guide Price: £100-150
Guide Price: £70-100
An Edwardian Merryweather pattern brass fireman's helmet with original leather liner and brass link chain. Guide Price: £300-400
A late 19th Century Indian elephant's foot with brass mounted rim (to form a jardiniere/waste paper bin), the plated shield pattern plaque to front worded "Chittagong Hills" and dated 1898, 13.5ins high. Guide Price: £200-300
A William IV mahogany rectangular wine cooler of Irish design, the stepped top with leaf carving and bead moulding enclosing fitted interior and with gadrooned angled sides, on carved and scrolled paw feet, and plinth base, 27ins wide x 23ins deep x 29ins high, with key for same. Guide Price: £2000-3000
A 19th Century French ormolu mounted and contra Boulle ebonised pier cabinet, with red veined marble slab to top, the canted front corners with scrolled mounts, the mahogany lined interior fitted two shelves enclosed by a pair of doors with ormolu mounts representing Bacchus and Ceres, on scrolled plinth base, 49ins wide x 19ins deep x 43ins high. Guide Price: £6000-8000
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