Monday 14 September 2020

Rural Bygones Sale

First of all thank you to everyone for comments about the NHS winter flu jab. The consensus seems to be that side effects are negligible so I will try and remember to ring at their specified time and book in for October.

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 Three times a year the Auction place at Campsea Ash has a Domestic and Rural Bygones and Collectibles sale. After a look at the on-line catalogue I decided a journey out to look on viewing day seemed a good idea - must be a year since I last went.

 Here is a little look at a few of the 1,000 + Lots

This first photo is from online as it was in the cabinet so impossible to photograph. This is an "Unusual Folk Art  Salve Box" - lovely bit of treen  Estimated to sell at £20 to £40

                                          
I took a few photos of some of the interesting bits and bobs from amongst the rusty junk!

 Old Staddle Stones estimated to go for £200 - £400 EACH!

 

A newly built "Shepherds Hut".........Estimated at £2,500 - £3,000. ( It didn't meet it's reserve so didn't sell - wouldn't it make a good play house for Grandchildren! - if only I had a spare £2,500!)


 
 
I spent ages a few years ago looking for a replacement glass  'fishing float' after mine broke while we were living in Ipswich. There are 6 boxes of them here - about 36 in total. different colours and sizes.
 
Lots of metal mechanical money boxes, these are reproductions and were estimated at £10 to £20 each.........which is how I know they are repro....... 100+ year old originals would be much more

 
I love these old gingerbread moulds but they would become dust collectors in my house. The one on the right is double sided and estimated at £40 - £60(It sold for £75) The other was estimated £20 - £40

 

This is something I LOVE! "An Antique Glass Lacemakers lamp"  only about 8 inches tall, but it has nowhere for oil or candle so I think its a magnifier and would have been stood in front of a candle to increase the range of light (Jennie in Wales will tell me if I'm wrong). It is beautiful but estimated at £50 - £80 so not in my price range!


 

I wouldn't mind this collection of kitchenalia - a few old cookery books and a Tala stacking cake tin. Estimated at £10 - £20

 

On the catalogue website I thought this little cabinet- below -  was about 12 inches wide but it was actually about double that. Estimated at £60 - £80, but it sold for £150.

In front are two old elm bowls from the C19 they sold for £35

 
A very weird collection of wooden frogs,supposedly from a shop display - very strange but online bidding was already up to £45 on Friday

And finally another photo from the auction website because  I forgot to look at this collection of small C19 oddments which includes a couple of Welsh Love spoons. I meant to look specially at the little patch(?) box with a painted lid, it looks very pretty.

                           
 
I was having an early lunch so watched some of the auction online. The "Star" lot was a 1952 Series 1 Landrover - owned since new by  one farming family and not restored. It was estimated at £5,000 - £7,000 but sold for an amazing £19,000! 

I didn't bid on anything but I expect lots of people did and most will have sold by the end of the day.

Back Tomorrow

Sue

31 comments:

  1. What treasures. I love old kitchenalia and treen - I'd have been sorely tempted! I have an old bread tin, blacksmith made, which I picked up for about £2 years ago and which makes the most lovely little loaf. I always wonder who had it made, and how many loaves have been baked in it. xx

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    1. I have some nice old bread boards which get used for pan stands but mustn't buy things which wont get used now

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  2. I will look out for similar sales around here, they surely must have them in the Ludlow area. I do so love a good old rummage! Oddly car boot sales don’t seem to feature her, which I used to love.

    LX

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    1. This place has a sale every monday of allsorts and then 3 of these rural ones plus agricultural machinary and collective - a busy company. They are estate agents too

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  3. What lovely stuff I particularly like the biscuit or anything else moulds.

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    1. I liked the one that went for the most money - but it would just stand around collecting dust here!

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  4. Oh, how lovely. I dearly love the shepherd's hut but - as you say, costly - and I have no little grandchildren to play in it either. Nor do I have a big garden where it would look amazing!
    I don't like the frogs at all, nor the money boxes but the rest is lovely. Dust collectors though, definitely!
    xx

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    1. I have the perfect spot for the shepherds hut here!

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  5. lots of interesting stuff. I'd be too scared to bid in case I accidentally put in a massively high offer. Though I fancy doing the secret wink for bidding, Lovejoy fashion!

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    1. People wave a bidding card nowadays so not easy to bid by mistake

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  6. I have to laugh. Those Welsh love spoons, while lovely, they're so basic with negligible symbolism any girl would have to think twice before saying "Yes" to the suitor. So many lovely things, I have buckets of glass floats here too. Love that teapot gingerbread mould, and I have always wanted a saddle stone. Glad you got to see such lovely things.

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    1. They had some repro staddle stones last year went for about £60 but £400 seems a bit pricey - dont know what they actually made

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  7. Such a lovely day out you had something my D and I would have enjoyed. The mounds were especially nice.
    My GD came yesterday along with my D and GS and we were in the garden talking about old household things and my GD said she is looking for some kitchen scales. I went to the kitchen cupboard and got mine down, they are blue salter scales with still all the weights they were a wedding present back in 1958 she was thrilled.
    Looks a nice day again.
    Hazel c uk 🌈🌈🌈

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    1. Salter sacles always the best - no wonder your grand daughter was pleased

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  8. What a lot of lovely items. I would have definitely been in the bidding for that little cabinet and the Welsh love spoons are gorgeous. I daren't go to sales like these I get bidding fever and come away with all sorts of stuff I don't really need ... but love!!

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    1. The lace makers lamp was my favourite - what tales it would tell.

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  9. I had to go to the encyclopaedia to find out what a Staddle stone was - how interesting. I'd love the Shepherd's hut - but I'd need the house that would suit it, and the gardens, and accompanying gardener, and of course, the money to manage all the above! And, when it comes to it - a gaggle of grandchildren not just two. I don't think this is going to happen, do you?

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    1. People buy the stones as a lovely garden feature now. Very expensive for originals

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  10. I last went to Campsea Ash sale about 40 years ago for a silver sale. Somebody will be pleased with that Land Rover price.

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    1. There were about 5 people wanting it - online on the phone and in the room - it just went up and up. Looked a bit of a wreck - 60 years over fields!

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  11. I just learnt a new word - treen. Not one I’d heard before.
    What a fine time you had. I collect little boxes like in the last photo....do you know what the creamy coloured carved? one was made from? Sandstone or soapstone?

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    1. Treen - made from a tree! not sure about the little carved box was could have been old ivory

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  12. Lots of things there that I love Sue but when I moved here I had a clean out and I am determined not to gather things again - sometimes hard though.

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    1. Some lovely things but too expensive for me and just wants rather than needs

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  13. That sounds a fascinating sale - I'd have bid on the lace maker's lamp - as you say, it was to reflect the light as much a possible. Something my Northamptonshire forebears would have known intimately, all being lacemakers.

    The gingerbread moulds turn up by the bucketful at Malvern, various prices.

    The shepherd's hut seems reasonably priced considering the "real thing" (newly made with toilet/shower and woodburner) costs about £25K!!!

    Thanks for sharing. Lord knows when we will attend an auction again.

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    1. It was very well organised. Viewing Friday - just had to give details and wear mask and use hand jel.
      Limited numbers for the actual Saturday sale - by booking and only if bidding. Nearly all the lots sold to people online.

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  14. What a great sale, I loved the Shepherd hut.

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    1. If I had £2,500 to spare - I'd have it to stand under the Turkey Oak!

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  15. We used to attend an auction house years ago and bid on all sorts of odd stuff - no wonder my house got so filled up with things! But it was so much fun :)

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  16. Like Virginia, I had to google to find out what Staddle Stones were. A little bit of English culture that I had not heard of. It would have been an interesting day out. I have lots of those glass floats...from 2" to 2 feet in size....used to find them often on the beach 50 years ago but now just plastic and Styrofoam ones although occasionally a glass one will still float in...probably knocked off some isolated island beach in a storm. Aloha

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  17. What interesting treasures. I am glad you took photos to share with us all.

    God bless.

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