November's sale got off to a glittering start, the first half day being taken up with over five hundred lots of Silver & Jewellery. The day started with Silver and Plate to include a pair of Victorian silver plated four-branch candelabrum fetching £1000.The Foreign Silver had its highlights with a Russian silver mug, decorated in relief with figures upon a troika fetching £150 and a pair of Continental white metal candlesticks, probably late 18th/early 19th Century fetching £500. The Modern Silver included some interesting lots to include an unusual silver car mascot in the form of a sailor with telescope fetching £1000 and a pair of silver models of pheasants, finely engraved and with ruby eyes, fetching £920. The Antique Silver included a George III silver letter salver by John Emes fetching £200 and a very unusual Victorian silver presentation cup, The Royal Agricultural Society of England fetching £680, a good George III oval silver cake basket by Henry Chawner and John Emes made £480. The private collection of vinaigrettes, snuff boxes, snuff mulls and vesta cases had in excess of fifty lots, to include a Victorian silver and enamel vesta case decorated with a sailing yacht and inscribed ‘F.W. Collingwood’ fetching £880, an early Victorian silver gilt Windsor Castle top vinaigrette by Nathaniel Mills making £1500 and a Victorian silver and enamel vesta case decorated with a hunting scene fetching £680. The Watches section had an interesting selection, with an Omega Speedmaster Professional Gentleman’s steel cased wristwatch fetching £520, a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner gentleman’s wristwatch making £1300 and another Rolex Oyster Perpetual Date Superlative Chronometer fetching £560.  A George III silver pair cased pocket watch by William Smith fetched £380. The highlights of the Jewellery section included a platinum full eternity ring fetching £1250, an 18ct gold enamel diamond fluer de lys ring fetching £300 and a group of six sovereigns mounted as a bracelet making £420. 

Day Two started with the Ceramics, to include a Susie Cooper Production Crown Works Burslem coffee set fetching £125, a pair of Doulton Slaters large oviform vases fetching £340.  A consignment of over thirty lots of Beswick included a Beswick mounted horse figure, ‘Lifeguard’ fetching £420, a Beswick Horse, ‘Mountie Stallion’ £520, a Beswick horse, ‘Norwegian Fjord’ fetching £300.  A large private collection of Hummel figures fetched in excess of £800 and a good 19th Century Meissen porcelain figure fetched £360.  From a private collection of Moorcroft was a rare ‘Revived Cornflower’ pattern oviform vase fetching £1800. The Works of Art section included some interesting items, to include a Regency blonde tortoiseshell tea caddy of concave form fetching £1600, a Victorian carved ivory plaque with figures in relief made £850, a pair of Victorian presentation medals for the Birmingham Agricultural Exhibition Society made £140, a 19th Century African patinated bronze face mask made £300 and a 19th Century Japanese ivory figure fetched £550.  An unusual patinated metal desk bell in the form of a pig fetched £540, an unusual metal mounted walking cane in the form of a golf club made £90 and a Chinese stained and natural carved ivory puzzle chess set, with damage, made £130.The highlights of the Clocks and Barometers section included a mahogany bracket clock fetching £840.The Antique and Later Furniture section proved very successful with a Chinese carved hardwood large armchair fetching £580, a 19th Century giltwood and gesso wall mirror fetching £520, a 17th/18th Century Continental oak commode fetching £900, a fine Victorian walnut, gilt metal and porcelain mounted credenza cabinet fetching £2300, a George II red walnut lowboy fetching £1800 and a Victorian walnut sofa fetching £700.