With a good selection of Chinese, Continental and English porcelain, the 150-lot Ceramics section was an excellent beginning to October’s auction and attracted a full saleroom of buyers and many phone lines booked.Highlights included a pair of Canton vases, fetching £500 despite damage, and from the same vendor two Lalique bowls made £760 collectively.  A large Chinese bowl made £680 and a Clarice Cliff inkpot with the ‘Windbells’ pattern made £260.The second specialist Pictures, Books, Stamps and Postcards sale was a success with another ever popular Neapolitan gouache of an Italian lake scene by Scarvelli, found amongst a collection of pictures, fetching £1300, and another by Gianni fetching £280.  From a single vendor came a good collection of art to include an H.R. Hall Highland cattle scene making £800 and an unusual W. Russell Flint watercolour, painted when the artist was 16, fetching £460.Other highlights in the Picture section included a pair of hunting oils by Frank Stone making £700, an L. Poborski study of a girl which made £500, A Richard Henry Nibb’s Quayside made £400 and a Llewellyn Petley Jones ‘A View on The Thames’ made £500. Amongst some large collections of both stamps and postcards, there was a local compilation of postcards of Old Portsmouth and Southsea which was bid to £620 and a large stamp collection within two boxes which fetched £540.The main interest of the Works of Art section was a very early and rare musical instrument by Longman & Broderip from the 18th Century, found among a collection of items which was eagerly contested between a bidder in the room and on the telephone to £1,650.The Clocks and Barometers section included a four-glass library clock fetching £500 and a Maple & Co circular wall clock making £500. Stored in an attic for many years was a very fine oval engraved carriage clock that caused much interest and was contested to £720.The Furniture section had lots of interest in items across the board.  The highlight of the sale was a good George III mahogany breakfront cabinet, consigned from a local vendor, it is very unusual and rare to see a hanging bookcase, and it was eagerly contested by two telephones to £9,000.There interesting items included a late 18th Century giltwood centre table with blue John top which made £2,400, a large George III dresser base which made £1,350 and a large oak court cupboard from the 19th Century which made £1,450. Proving early oak is still very much in demand, an 18th Century side cabinet fetched £1,000 and an Arts & Crafts refectory table made £820.Other highlights included an oak bachelor’s chest fetching £680 and an Indo Portuguese chest made £700.