Unique Auctions 26th February sale includes One of Largest Single Coin Collections Ever.

The collection of coins from an estate in the Midlands includes an amazing array of variety from Roman coins to modern day.

Coins include James I, James II, Elizabeth I, Henry III, Henry VII, Charles I, Gold Swiss coins, sovereigns, silver dollars, silver proof sets, silver proof ingots, and many specialist box sets and editions.

An unusual part of the collection is a bin containing 1/4 tonne of unsorted coins. We can only imagine that this collection took many decades to get to its current position. The bin was filmed by the BBC and by Unique Auctions being emptied. The collection is so vast that many lots are being added to the catalogue unsorted.

There is a special preview of the coins on Thursday 23rd February.

If you have questions on the coin collection auction please contact us on 01522 690044.

The sale takes place on 26th February Day at 10am at Unique Auctions, Hillcroft Business Park, Whisby Road, Lincoln, LN6 3QT.

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Unique Auctions are one of Lincolnshire’s leading Auction Houses offering a range of regular Antique & Collectors sales. Unique Auctions handle every aspect of probate, house, agricultural, commercial and industrial clearances.

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The trunk has the number 819756 and has P & O Baggage Room labels marked Princess Stella of Kapurthala. The trunk includes a number of other labels and signage.

The web site http://www.kapurthalaprincess.com details the life of the Princess and makes very interesting reading: how she met the Maharajah, how he was captivated by her beauty and  proposed through a letter, her travels to India and life as a Princess.

The Maharini was a seasoned traveller the web site details many notes on her travels. The trunk itself has Kapurthala markings on the side its entire Louis Vuitton number reads: LOUIS VUITTON VL 819756 VL, PARIS 70 CHAMPS ELYSEES, 149 NEW BOND ST LONDON, NICE, CANNES, VICHY.

If you have questions on the trunk please contact us on 01522 690044.

The sale takes place on 26th February Day at 10am at Unique Auctions, Hillcroft Business Park, Whisby Road, Lincoln, LN6 3QT.

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About the Maharini of Kapurthala

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About Unique Auctions

Unique Auctions are one of Lincolnshire’s leading Auction Houses offering a range of regular Antique & Collectors sales. Unique Auctions handle every aspect of probate, house, agricultural, commercial and industrial clearances.

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TO INCLUDE A 1934 STANDARD 10, A LOUIS VIUTTON TRUNK THAT BELONGED TO AN INDIAN PRINCESS (click to learn more)

BOTH SALES ON VIEW FRIDAY 24th JANUARY 10am – 4pm

PLEASE NOTE: SUNDAY 25TH FEBRUARY SALE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ON SATURDAY 25TH

ENTRIES INCLUDE: CONTENTS OF 4 LOCAL ESTATES AND OTHER PRIVATE VENDORS INCLUDING: IN EXCESS OF A QUARTER OF A TON OF OLD COINS INCLUDING GOLD, SILVER AND ENAMEL EXAMPLES, A TABLE TOP POLYPHON, PHONOGRAPH, COLLECTION OF GUNS AND MEDALS, LARGE COLLECTION OF POWDER COMPACTS, COLLECTION OF HAT PINS, LARGE QUANTITY OF OLD TOYS, VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN MANTEL CLOCKS, GOOD SELECTION OF WRITING BOXES, TEA CADDIES AND OTHER BOXES, GOOD SELECTION OF WATER COLOURS, OIL PAINTINGS AND PRINTS, FURNITURE TO INCLUDE: WRITING TABLES, DRESSERS, TABLES AND CHAIRS, EDWARDIAN DISPLAY CABINET,  GEORGIAN CHEST OF DRAWERS,  COLLECTION OF ROYAL DOULTON, COALPORT, BESWICK FIGURES, NAO AND LLADRO, COLLECTION OF PAPERWEIGHTS, HUNDREDS OF ITEMS OF COSTUME JEWELLERY TO BE SOLD IN BIG LOTS, GOOD COLLECTION OF GOLD AND SILVER JEWELLERY, MANY ITEMS OF SILVER AND SILVER PLATE., OIL LAMPS, VICTORIAN FRENCH CLOCK GARNITURE, COLLECTION OF UNUSUAL WEDGWOOD, COLLECTION OF O.LD TINS, GOOD OLD OAK DOUBLE PEDESTAL ROLL TOP DESK, VICTORIAN POT CUPBOARDS, WALL CLOCKS, OLD PINE FURNITURE,

IN EXCESS OF 2000 LOTS OVER 2 DAYS

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SATURDAY 28th JANUARY 9am ANTIQUE AND GENERAL AUCTION
AND SUNDAY 29th JANUARY 10am ANTIQUE AND COLLECTOR’S AUCTION
BOTH SALES ON VIEW FRIDAY 27th JANUARY 10am – 4pm

ENTRIES INCLUDE: CONTENTS OF 2 LOCAL ESTATES AND OTHER PRIVATE VENDORS INCLUDING GOOD COLLECTION OF OIL LAMPS AND OIL LAMP PARTS, LARGE COLLECTION OF CAMERA’S, CINE CAMERA’S AND PROJECTOR’S, LARGE COLLECTION OF MODEL RAILWAY’S AND RAILWAY MEMORABILIA INCLUDING IN EXCESS OF 10,000 RAILWAY SLIDES, SEVERAL GOOD VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN MANTEL CLOCKS, GOOD SELECTION OF WRITING BOXES, TEA CADDIES AND OTHER BOXES, GOOD SELECTION OF WATER COLOURS, OIL PAINTINGS AND PRINTS, FURNITURE TO INCLUDE: WRITING TABLES, BREAK FRONT BOOKCASE, DRESSERS, INLAID SPINET CONVERTED TO A DESK, INLAID TABLE AND SIX CHAIRS, EDWARDIAN DISPLAY CABINET, HEAVY VICTORIAN LEAD WATER PUMP, SEVERAL MINIATURES, COLLECTION OF ROYAL DOULTON, COALPORT, BESWICK FIGURES, GOOD PAIR OF ROYAL DOULTON VASES, GOOD COLLECTION OF GOLD AND SILVER JEWELLERY, SILVER AND SILVER PLATE.

IN EXCESS OF 1000 LOTS OVER 2 DAYS

Thursday 12th January Antique & Collectors postponed until Saturday 14th January at 9am

Viewing Friday 13th January 10am to 4pm and Day of Sale from 7.00am

ENTRIES INCLUDE:

Approximately 800 good quality lots from several local estates including a good selection of Victorian and later furniture to include mahogany, oak, walnut and pine furniture, breweriana, railwayana, toys, Corgi kits, teddy bears, film posters, paintings, prints, coins, books, bibles, comics, annuals, glassware, ceramics, vintage clothing, gold and silver jewellery etc.

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The sale takes place on New Years Day, 1st January at 10am at Unique Auctions, Hillcroft Business Park, Whisby Road, Lincoln, LN6 3QT.

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About Unique Auctions

Unique Auctions are one of Lincolnshire’s leading Auction Houses offering a range of regular Antique & Collectors sales. Unique Auctions handle every aspect of probate, house, agricultural, commercial and industrial clearances.

For further information call UK +44 (0) 1522 690444 or visit http://www.unique-auctions.com

About Mouseman Robert Thompson

Robert (Mouseman) Thompson (7 May 1876 – 8 December 1955) was a British furniture maker. He lived in Kilburn, North Yorkshire, where he set up a business manufacturing oak furniture, which featured a carved mouse on almost every piece. It is claimed that the mouse motif came about accidentally in 1919 following a conversation about “being as poor as a church mouse”, which took place between Thompson and one of his colleagues during the carving of a cornice for a screen. This chance remark led to him carving a mouse and this remained part of his work from this point onwards.

He was part of the 1920s revival of craftsmanship, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement led by William Morris, John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle. More specific to furniture making in this genre and era include Stanley Webb Davies of Windermere.

The workshop, now being run by his descendants, includes a showroom and visitors’ centre, and is located beside the Parish Church, which contains “Mouseman” pews, fittings and other furniture. The company is now known as “Robert Thompson’s Craftsmen Ltd – The Mouseman of Kilburn.”

Fr Paul Nevill, a former Headmaster of Ampleforth College, asked Thompson to make the Ampleforth Abbey’s furniture; they liked it so much that Ampleforth kept asking Thompson for more works, including the library and most of the main building. Fr Gabriel Everitt, current Headmaster, has recently asked the Mouseman company for more work. Most of Ampleforth College houses are decorated with Robert Thompson’s furniture.

Others who continue in his style working in Yorkshire oak, have adopted similar identifying marks and nicknames, for example Thomas “Gnomeman” Whittaker (1910-1991), Colin “Beaverman” Almack, Wilf “Squirrelman” Hutchinson, “eagleman”, “beaverman” et al..

Source: Wikipedia

Although he was born in Grenoble, Fantin-Latour moved to Paris in 1841 and worked in the studio of Gustave Courbet where he developed his unique and much celebrated studies of flowers. He made frequent visits to England and became a lifelong friend and companion to the versatile painter James Whistler.

From 1862 many of his flower studies were shown at the Royal Academy and this picture, a study of roses, is typical of the fluency of his accomplished style of painting. It has been owned by the same family for three generations and is signed and dated by Latour in the artists unique manner.

Today his work is represented in many private collections and this picture will be of particular interest to connoisseurs of his work as it complements the few studies which have come to the market in the last few years. Based on recent sale room successes the estimate for this picture is £20,000 – £30,000.

Also in the same sale are two delightful studies by the French engraver and versatile draughtsman, Jaques Callot 1592 – 1635.

These studies illustrate his accomplishments in the mannerist style which was noted for combining grotesque and elegant elements in a compelling manner.

Certainly sought after by the connoisseur because of the advances he pioneered in copper plate engraving, these two studies are estimated at £500 – £600 each.

Other artists at the sale include: Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904), H. Dunatti, E. Bennett, F. Holzen and H. E. Stephens.

The sale takes place on New Years Day, 1st January at 10am  at Unique Auctions, Hillcroft Business Park, Whisby Road, Lincoln, LN6 3QT.

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About Unique Auctions

Unique Auctions are one of Lincolnshire’s leading Auction Houses offering a range of regular Antique & Collectors sales. Unique Auctions handle every aspect of probate, house, agricultural, commercial and industrial clearances.

For further information call UK +44 (0) 1522 690444 or visit http://www.unique-auctions.com

The sale takes place on New Years Day at Unique Auctions, Hillcroft Business Park, Whisby Road, Lincoln, LN6 3QT. Click for here for more details of the auction. Click for directions to Unique Auctions.

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The sale takes place on Saturday 26th November at Unique Auctions, Hillcroft Business Park, Whisby Road, Lincoln, LN6 3QT. Click for here for more details of the auction. Click for directions to Unique Auctions.

Unique Auctions is Lincolnshire’s Number One Auction House Handling Every Aspect of Complete House, Farm, Manor House and Land Clearances.