A fabulous year of auctions ends in style with an eclectic mix of 444 lots offered in the December 15 Banbury Silver, Jewellery, Watches, Fine Art & Antiques Auction
Thanks to the hard work of our Oxfordshire team, bidders will be tempted by hundreds of fascinating items. Perhaps the perfect Christmas gift awaits you? Here our Banbury valuers shine the spotlight on 5 top lots:
Lot 6 | Designer cufflinks
Cartier, a pair of early 20th century 18 carat gold cufflinks, each face of rectangular reeded form. Each signed Cartier, London and 18ct. Each panel 10 x 13mm. Gross weight 24gm
£800-£1,000
Lot 99 | Snake charmer
A large Pallisy-type majolica charger, early 20th century. It features a central coiled snake facing a frog, surrounded by pike, carp, rudd, shellfish, dragonfly and insects on a blue green ground. 54 x 39cm
£300-£500
Lot 113 | Chinese elegance
A Chinese blue and white garden seat, early 20th century. Hexagonal, with studded bands and pierced coin motifs on a foliate ground with hawthorn blossom ribbons. 47cm high
£600-£800
Lot 247 | 500th anniversary sovereigns
The Royal Mint. The 1989 United Kingdom gold proof sovereign four coin collection commemorating the 500th anniversary of the issue of the first gold sovereign. Half sovereign, sovereign, double sovereign and five pound coin. Gross weight 67.89gm. Collection number 3088
£3,000-£4,000
Lot 290 | Constable’s tipstaff
A William IV Scottish ebonised wood, white metal mounted High Constable’s Tipstaff, numbered 32. Engraved with the crest of The Burgh of Leith, dated 1833, above detail of a ship and legend Persevere’. 10cm
£300-£400
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