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This outstanding table and bench exceeded everybody's expectations but ours! We knew it was a winner.
Serious bidders drove this great portrait up to £3,200 at the first sale held at our new Winchcombe location.
This perfect Rolex Submariner recently sold for a stunning £3,900. A solid gold strap made an incredible £2,780. Bidding was brisk for both items. Don't forget, we take commission bids and now online bids as well. See the link on our index page!
This wonderful chinese incense burner was incredibly popular, with nine telephone bidders competing to buy. The eventual winner paid £1,200 for the item.
An antique Turkish carpet flew out at an incredible
£6,600 recently. The 17th century double niche "Transylvanian"
rug attracted worldwide attention through British Bespoke’s
website. With six telephone bidders, the price rose quickly
whilst the carpet stayed firmly on the floor!
Good examples of these carpets can be seen in the Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts and are housed in the protestant churches
and museums in Brasov, an area of Transylvania.
British Bespoke Auctions is delighted to
report the sale of a set of Fabergé studs for
£9,500 in a recent sale. Telephone bids were being
accepted from around the world, with bidders in Russia,
the United States of America and the UK.
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In another sale, the medals shown above
sold for a stunning £3,000. Once
again, a telephone bidder saw the medals in our online
catalogue and acted over the phone.
More details here.
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This 14"
x 12" turn of the century icon sold for £1,300
in our September 2009 auction. It was sold to a bidder
in the room, despite competition from telephone and
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An antique Oriental Double Gourd
Vase - possibly 19th century - sold for £2,200 in a
telephone bid to the Far East. October 2009.
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ANTIQUE BRASS
TELESCOPE- £2,500
An antique brass telescope by Thomas
Cooke of York - 45" long, lens 4" diameter
- on a mahogany tripod with brass fittings in a
mahogany case with a second tripod. December 2009.
19C DECANTERS - £360
A pair of 19th century glass decanters
- mounted in ornate ormolu - possibly French. December
2009.
HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS
British Bespoke Auctions sold lot 70
for an impressive £1,100 at their antique &
collectable sale in July. The lot was estimated at £180
- £220.
This important archive featured photographs and postcards
documenting the early period of British Colonial rule
in Nigeria showing the building of the Niger Bridge
at Jebba, the railways at Florin, tribal meetings with
Sir Frederick Lugard on his first visit, game hunting,
women, military, mining and Bauchi chiefs. The 350 items
were estimated to fetch £180-220 and went to an
anonymous telephone bidder.
Also in the sale was a collection of early Indian historical
photographs, which fetched over £1000 to a telephone
bid from Canada.
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