Despite  only a four-week gap between sales, the April sale still contained nearly 700 lots. It started with the ceramics section with a 19th Century German porcelain large figure group fetching £400, a 19th Century German porcelain oval box and cover fetching £270, and once again a good selection of Russian porcelain collectively fetching in excess of £700. The highlight of both the Pictures and Books Section and the auction was John Gould’s Birds of Great Britain Volumes 4 and 5 containing in excess of 180 coloured plates which fetched £16,400. Other highlights in the pictures and books section were volumes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of the Turner Gallery fetching £200, Jean Young figures Hanging Washing made £260, the late 18th early 19th Century oil sold for £380, J Mourice Highland Landscape fetched £480, a collection of six John Hall Thorpe Woodcuts brought in excess of £500 and  William Lionel Wyllie Thames Pool sold for  £580. The highlight of the stamps and postcards section was an interesting stamp collection mainly Victorian and all in mint condition fetching £4000. In the works of art section there was a Japanese carved ivory model of a crab fetching £340 and a similar bone model of a lobster fetching £260, yet another arts and crafts copper wall mirror after a design by Archibald Knox fetching £1000. Clocks and barometers included a George III mahogany long case clock by G Lowe fetching £1000. The antique furniture section included a 19th Century mahogany gentleman’s wardrobe fetching £400, a 19th Century mahogany military small desk which made £620, a Victorian burr walnut Canterbury whatnot sold for £500, A George II walnut low boy brought £480 and an early 19th  Century mahogany oval butlers tray with stand fetched £540. Further,  a Queen Anne walnut chest on stand sold for £2500, A George III mahogany serpentine sideboard fetched £2000, an 18th Century walnut chest on stand brought £980 and a 19th Century mahogany partners desk made £1000.

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