The September Sale was a very busy sale with high interest from both private and trade buyers. The ceramic section highlights included a pair of oval porcelain plaques painted by John Randall who was a painter for Coalport. Both were studies of birds of prey and with much interest were contested to £2500. Other highlights were an interesting set of ten early green glass chemist bottles which fetched £200, an interesting pair of KPM Berlin porcelain plaques of Negro figures fetched £540 and a Clarice Cliff dinner set fetched £200.  Two very large Chinese blue & white decorated oviform vases made £400 and £400.  The Works of Art section had a good early red stained and natural ivory chess set fetching £230, a Victorian walnut marquetry inlaid Swiss musical box making £1150 and a Tudric pewter two-handled vase designed by Archibald Knox making £220.  Within the Collector’s sale the toys and dolls included a good quantity of Hornby ‘O’ gauge model trains and accessories and some good dinky and corgi model cars, all fetching in excess of £5000.  The Militaria, medals and coins included an early Japanese Mempo, (the metal face guard embossed and pierced with a red lacquer backing) causing lots of interest worldwide making £1300, various medal groups fetching in excess of £2000 and a unique early 20th Century gold medal, the King’s gold medal for best cadet fetching £480.  Clocks and barometers were widely contested with a good mahogany brass inlaid bracket clock fetching £720, a George III oak longcase clock by Stoke Bendley fetching £500 and various other brass cased carriage clocks and a skeleton clock in all fetching over £5000. The furniture market has much improved and highlights of the furniture auction include a Victorian rosewood teapoy making £500, a Regency rosewood three-division canterbury fetching £480, a Regency mahogany large wine cooler making £920, an Edwardian rosewood marquetry inlaid semi bowfronted side cabinet making £1050, a Victorian marble chimney piece fetching £1750 and a good late Victorian mahogany drawing room suite fetching £1050.
The Collector’s Sales which are now held four times a year are proving very popular and appear to be drawing buyers worldwide and attracting a lot of interest.