As usual I took a trip out to Clark and Simpson Auction Yard to look at what they had for sale in their third Rural Bygones sale of the year
There wasn't anything particularly interesting in the big shed but outside were a collection of horse drawn vehicles that were worth a look.
Plenty of old enamel signs that sell for silly money.
Collections of old milk bottles and stone jars
This once would have been in the servants quarters of a big house for the gentleman and lady of the house to summon their staff to whichever room they were in.
There was a large collection of scales - the ones below were just a few. Why on earth would anyone collect scales!
This isn't an original delivery cycle belonging to a laundry company, it's much too tidy, must have been a prop for a museum or similar
I think this cycle below was also modern, it was labelled up as a sweep and coal merchant but it looked a bit too tidy and clean
Then outside where there were some interesting trailers etc for sale. This first one for workmen or a shepherd maybe - also not an original
I think the carts below were originals - one was decked up for a wedding.
But this was my favourite to look at - I'm not sure that it was really old
A huge collection of old horse drawn and hand operated farm machinery, very hard work for both horse and man on our heavy clay soil in Suffolk
The estimate for the gypsy wagon was £8,000 - £10,000 but I looked online and it didn't sell. They are now having a timed online auction of all the unsold lots from this sale - all 229 of them, including the gypsy caravan, with a reduced estimate. With 229 unsold lots - a quarter of the total lots - it doesn't sound as if their 3rd Rural Bygones sale of the year was very successful.
It's online at Clark and Simpsons until the 8th if you fancy a gypsy caravan! although you would need a horse to get it home!
I didn't leave a bid on anything - But it's always interesting to have a look.
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There were some lovely driving carriages there. As for stuff not selling, over-heavy reserves, one suspects. Can't think of any reason why one would want a coal-delivering bicycle. Did such a thing ever exist even? (we had horse and cart deliveries). I'm going through the catalogue and a couple of things I'd have bid on were I there. Amazed at the price the Cranberry Glass lamp went for - (£250 - blimey!!)
ReplyDeleteI thought the same about coal delivery - would have been horse and cart. But the bike looked much too new anyway. Can't think what the two bikes there would have been used for - some sort of display somewhere maybe.
DeleteJust realized that was the February catalogue I was looking at!!!
ReplyDeleteYou can enjoy the July and the September one now!
DeleteThere used to be a regular group of traditional horse drawn caravans camped at the edge of an open space in Peterborough for a few weeks every summer back in the early 80s, I wonder if they still go there.
ReplyDeleteInteresting selection, but nothing to tickle the fancy, really.
ReplyDeleteQuite a selection but like you and others above nothing I would buy.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
I love seeing the interiors of the original style gypsy caravans, we see a lot of them resting in lay-bys near us in the weeks preceding the Appleby Fair every year. It's amazing how far they travel in them. There are some interesting lots there, but what an amazing amount of things not selling and having to be auctioned. I guess it shows what tough times we are living in at the moment.
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