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Mike Roberts bows
out on a £2.3m high
ANTIQUE garden ornament
and architectural dealer
Mike Roberts sold up at a
sale held by Christie’s at his
Kent premises on 27 September which exceeded expectations by a grand order.
“It went embarassingly
well,” said Mike early on the
day after the sale, “almost
humbling.”
He was busy upgrading hotel rooms for a forthcoming
family world tour. Christie’s
were still in bed.
“Well, wouldn’t you be?”
commented specialist in
charge Nic McElhatton after
the successful culmination of
months of hard work by him
and Toby Woolley.
The average lot value was
more than £4,000. Prices
soared up to 20 times estimate in a way not seen since
the Seago sale of 1999, co-incidentally also organised by
Christie’s.
“You couldn’t get a look
in,” Minchinhampton boss
Steve Tomlin said, “as lot after lot fell to the same
telephone bidder. But the sale
was brilliantly organised—a
magnificent exercise in selling.”
A trade buyer* in New
York bought nearly half the
available lots, fiercely bidding against all-comers,
mainly private underbidders.
But as at the Seago sale,
Christie’s own customer base
underpinned the bidding, providing 280 registered bidders
from around the world—although there were an
additional 26 buyers new to
Christie’s at the sale.
because we have a reputation
for these sales. Billingshurst
has a familiarity with their
way of doing things, but our
approach is different. We
market things a different way.
But at the end of the day the
stock must be good.”
Christie’s fresher approach
did not go unnoticed.
James Rylands, Sotheby’s
consultant on garden and architectural
sales,
was
complimentary about the
structure of the sale.
“Christie’s did well. Rupert
(van der Werff) and I went
over to see it before it was
officially on view. With this
type of sale the auctioneer
can get so far and then something sticks. But on the day
this did not happen. They
were lucky and clever,”
Mr. Rylands said.
Back to Nic McElhatton.
“There were a hell of a lot
of grates—at least fifty—the
best collection I have ever
seen—and chimneypieces.
Probably the most sold at a
single auction. But obviously
you have to break things up
(to make the auction more
digestable for private buyers). It’s not rocket science,”
Nic said.
Christie’s started in March
with Toby Woolley and Nic
McElhatton spending eight
days listing and cataloguing
the lots.
“The sale was cost-effective compared to a normal
house or mixed sale because
catalogued it all within our
own department. Mixed sales
usually involve a number of
specialists from different departments, each of whom
have travelling and hotel bills
to be met.”
Listing was followed by
photography which took four
photographers three weeks.
(At the sale some of the lots
sold at crazy prices by dint of
the moody catalogue photos.)
How they did it
“We already knew Mike really well,” Mr. McElhatton
said, “but when we went to
see him the stock spoke volumes. He approached us
Above: Mike Roberts works on catalogue photos before the sale
BT then installed twenty
telephone lines, one of which,
an ISDN line, had to be
brought from two villages
away from Ashurst. But BT
had planned to do that anyway, so Christie’s did not
have to pay.”
Mike was trepidatious before the sale. “No-one is
phoning and no-one has visited. It’s all gone very quiet,”
he said two weeks prior.
The sale
“I knew something special
was about to happen,” said
Mr McElhatton, “when lot
21—a carved pine fireplace
estimated at £1,500 to
£2,000—went for £26,000.”
(£31,070 inc premium, see
p5). It was a simple 54in
high 60in wide eared egg
and dart, with volute jambs
and a pulvinated oak leaf
frieze.
“Half the lots sold to the
USA, slightly more than a
third to the UK,” Nic said.
“We were expecting buyers
to be 85 per cent private and
15 per cent trade. But on the
day lots sold 40 per cent privately and 60 per cent trade,”
he said. This was a big difference, skewed in no small part
by one determined trade
buyer in New York.
After the sale Mike Roberts
was circumspect.
“I feel I know less about
dealing and value now than I
did before the sale,” he said.
“If I had set out to create a
top ten list prior to the sale, I
would have only got one
right.” (A lead bust by
Cheere.)
One of the top ten lots was
a pair of art deco lamp wall
lights (p10).
“I spent £1,200 on them,
which was a lot considering
the glass of one was broken.
(cont p 6
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Above: Chris Thornton of Bedouin (seen bending to confirm the construction of an art deco table to an
interested trade buyer) at the Decorative Antiques Fair in Battersea London on 5 – 10 October
Bedouin at the
decorative fair
THIS was the second year that
Chris Thornton of Bedouin in
Sussex exhibited at October
Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea.
Over a hundred standholders
included the likes of Jane
Walton’s garden antiques and
Augustus Brandt’s upmarket
woodwork. This year the fair
had no dateline, which added
rather than detracted to the melee of goods on offer, most of
which were antique, some decid-
edly repro, and some designer
shabby. But hey, this show was
for designers and dealers not
collectors.
The fair had a small but good
exhibition of wallpapers from
1560 to the present day, from the
archives of Cole & Son, explaining why the Brits lagged behind
Auction at
YAPTON METAL Co
at 11.00am
Saturday 30th October 2004
Fireplaces, garden items and statuary, gates, two
spiral staircases, ironwork,timber, building
materials, rolltop baths, staddle stones, door and
window furniture, antiques, painted and other
furniture, collectables, curios, fossils etc etc.
In all approx. 500 lots
Viewing: Thursday, 28th and Friday, 29th from
9.00 until 5.00 and from 9.00am on day of sale.
Catalogues £2.75 available from Monday, 25th.
YAPTON METAL CO.
BURNDELL ROAD
YAPTON
ARUNDEL
West Sussex BN18 0HP
Tel 01243 551359
DISS AUCTION ROOMS
Architectural
Salvage & Statuary
Saturday 23rd October 10.00am
Approx 1300 lots inc 19thC & later garden
furniture, Georgian fluted strap iron chair, iron
benches, terracotta & compo ornament, staddle
stones, oil jars, old slate and modern lead
cisterns, pair of 19thC stone columns bases and
caps, iron columns, lamp standards, two Tudor
chimney stacks, 39in dia copper, pamments,
stone paving, brickwork, balustrade, marble
slate and wood fire surrounds, inserts, hob
grates, firedogs baskets and backs, lanterns, oak
and pitch church furnishing, oak panels, pine
boards, woodblock, stained glass, K6 phone
box, GR pillar box and architectural miscellany
Contact: Carl Willows. Viewing: Thursday prior 2.00–8.00pm,
Friday prior 10.00–5.00pm and morning of sale from 8.30am
Double catalogues: £5.00 by post, or online from www.twgaze.com
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the French at the turn of the
19th century due to a wallpaper tax which had lasted from
1712 to 1836. There were examples of papers made by
Edward Crace and designed
by Pugin for the new Palace
of Westminster in 1840. And
did you know that Harry Potter invented the rotary
wallpaper printing machine in
Darwen Lancashire, patented
9th December 1839?
Chris Thornton has family
connections in Sri Lanka, including a tea plantation.
“It’s tiny, only fifty acres—
not enough tea to export,” he
said.
It was the frequent visits,
coupled with the Sri Lankan,
formerly colonial Ceylon, architectural
design
and
antiques which started him
dabbling.
“The Portuguese got there
in the sixteenth century, then
the Dutch took over and then
the Brits,” Chris said, “but the
Sri Lankan’s themselves have
always had good design sense
and adapted to western
styles—like 1930’s art deco—
with ease.”
On the Bedouin stand, from
Sri Lanka were a Gents rail-
way station clock from
(£2,200 plus £600 to get
working, from Colombo), a
very old bronze and iron oil
lamp, a frail termite-ridden
buddha remnant, a Matisselike carved granite group of
two heads of indeterminate
age but old (£875), and some
nice furniture.
English stuff included an
iron lattice window (£950)
and some big thick glass leadacid battery tanks (£250ea).
There was also has an antique
Congolese chaise-longue covered in leather, probably from
an African exotic animal.
“One goes in with expectations …” Chris Thornton said
after the fair, “ … it was OK,
I am still learning and I don’t
really know how well I did.
What I heard of others at the
show was that some did well
and some did not.” A typical
fair in that respect.
The V&A Encounters (East
meets West) exhibition has a
number of antiques from Sri
Lanka which illustrate the
cross-culutural connection Above: Old carved granite Sri Lankan heads £875 at Bedouin
that Chris talks about.
Victorian Wood Works at Decorex
VICTORIAN Wood Works wall hung panel on the right there—Country Homes, Eng- just round the corner from
was at the London interior of the photo below) had just lish Home, Grand Designs, Harrods, and now also have
design show Decorex at The won a design award at the Homes & Gardens, House & an outlet in Manhattan (tel
Royal Hospital in Chelsea at show.
Garden, World of Interiors, 212 247 9600).
the end of September.
Mr. Molloy, recently de- and Interior Design—comLast year half Victorian
Accompanied by Phil scribed by a prominent home plete with new editor Gary Wood Works output was new
Wilson and Max Edwards, interest mag as a genial tree Mason formerly of Period wood, but this year that will
Declan Molloy worked the sprite, was effusive.
Living. ACID, Chesney's (all be down to fifteen per cent.
floor, or rather floors, of
“This is the only show we new modern) and Stuart Inte“We ended up playing the
finely finished sample panels do, and for us it is the only riors (all repro?) were also margins, with a warehouse
of
quality
reclaimed, show in town, which is why present.
and machinery that was only
seamlessly moving from we make a big effort,” he
VWW have just finished the half working, so we have
Conran to Vogue to New York said, adding, “It’s also good first £237,000worth of a four gone back to our core
to Croatia, as the champagne for people to come and get phase revamp of the floor of strength,” Declan said. Grand.
flowed. A panel of the new you three dimensionally.”
menswear at Harrods. They
This year there was more
Harrods floor (oak chevron
The design mags were all have also opened a new shop trade than public at Decorex.
Below: Left to right Max Edwards recently joined designer, MD Declan Molloy and Phil Wilson sales and marketing at Decorex
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HOMECINEMATASTIC
JOHN Tyler of JAT near
Bristol recently ran a
SalvoAD for cinema
seats. “From the
response I got I could
have sold several
cinema’s worth,” he
said
HELLO!
SALVOFAIRTASTIC
MINCHINHAMPTON
Architectural have sold
the zinc sculpture by
August Kiss of an
Amazon being attacked
by a Tiger to a US
private who has an
English garden with a
classical temple by a
large pool. “We don’t
know how they found
out we had it,” MD
Steve Tomlin said, “but
we reckon it was
probably as a result of
the Salvo Fair.” This
would place
Minchinhampton top of
the Salvo Fair sales
league at a figure we
reckon would be in
excess of £20,000 for a
single item
Above: Trooper Wootton, past his bedtime with, left, Mr. Drummond Shaw, and centre
Richard Parrott
Below: Walking Mick kindly rendering late night soliloquys—Albert and the Lion and
others—with Howard Jones centre and Norman Cockcroft below left
SALVO FAIR
COX’S YARD in
Gloucestershire and
Bygones in Kent have
both booked big stands
at the Salvo Fair July 2
& 3 at Knebworth. We
will hold a meeting
about marketing Salvo
2005 with standholders
this winter, so if you
would like to join in
please book your pitch
now
BOZ IN GOA
Above: Marcus Olliff
BOZ Kay, still a partner
in Salvo, has decamped
to Goa for the winter.
He is working on a new
definitive version of
SalvoWEB and allied
sites which has so far
taken a year but is still
not finished. When it is
SalvoWEB will be more
powerful than Google
(as if—ed) Email Boz at
[email protected]
RECLAIMED TALK
NICOLE Lazarus of
BioRegional Reclaimed
gave a talk to green
design professionals at
a workshop in London
last week. “Recent
government directives
have given the green
light for reclaimed
materials,” she said.
But salvage yards are
not geared up for big
orders of salvage, and
many don’t care
whether they sell or
not, she said, so she is
aiming high and plans
to become the salvage
equivalent of Jewsons
in London An interview
with Nicole, the intrepid
and outspoken ex-civil
engineer will be
published in SNEWS in
December
Below: Moustachioed Neville Griffiths, left, hides his
Dali from Smilin’ Steve Tomlin, right
Above: David Cox and Eve
Druinan reminisce about Toronto
Below: Messrs. Simon Kirby and
John Hogan
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BEAMISH BRASS
Above: Rupert Evans, left, fighting an invisible demon, doesn’t seem to worry a laid back Linden
Pilkington, right, while sandwich king ‘Mac’ McCartney, centre, smiles implacably.
Conviviality at The White
Bear, Shipston on Stour
THE assembled ranks of the
M i d l a n d s , We s t o f E n g l a n d
and Home Counties trade
gathered in time-honoured
fashion for the annual convivial evening at The White
Bear, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, England on Saturday 9th October 2004.
Around 9pm a wholesome
meal was served of beef stew
and dumplings, baked potatoes
and English vegetables, followed by chef’s special spotted
dick, lacking spots and with
added chocolate, and ending
with some overseas cheeses.
After dinner artefacts were
passed around, presented by
Mr. Peter Watson, which transpired to be early oriental or
colonial cylinder locks and keys.
A quiz ensued which nonsense
set a tone for the evening postprandial festivities culminating
in renditions of Victorian nonsense and other prose soliliquys
by the venerable late night
Below: Paul Busby and Colin Bott share a joke
Walking Mick.
The lady and gentlemen then
retired to the lounge where
Mr. Simon Kirby’s tales of
derring do were recounted, especially memorable his thespian
interpretation of a trip to a
coastal town in France where he
wagered several guineas against
a Dutchman, who accused modern Englishmen of lacking
backbone, that he would in the
middle of the night in December, plunge himself into the
English channel. Needless to
say the wager was resoundly
won, but not without peril.
The date set for the next
Shipston get together is Saturday 1st October 2005.
The next convivial evening
will be held at The South Causey
Hotel, Beamish on Saturday
29th January 2005. Tel 01207
235555. All are welcome. See
below.
CONVIVIAL EVENING
to be held at
South Causey Hotel
(Tel Jean on 01207
235555 for rooms)
BEAMISH
Co Durham
on Saturday
29th January 2005
All welcome—wives,
husbands, partners.
From 7pm onwards with A
MEAL around 8pm and
pleasantries to follow.
JOHN Gall is seeking
brass church and
chapel commemorative
plaques, ideally with
engraved borders. Tel
Beamish Museum 0191
370 4000
CUMBRIA FRIDGE
JASON Brewer in
Carlisle provides parts
for, and restores,
antique refrigerators,
cookers and other
domestic appliances,
including bare metal
resprays to any colour
and full reconditioning
of all components. “i
can also rewire fridges
and cookers to meet
current electrical safety
requirements,” he says.
E retrocold@aol. com
Tel 01228 539540
TV DREAM PEOPLE
TOM Brass of Shine TV
is seeking people for a
new TV series about
converting property
into dream homes
(barns, boats, farm
houses, churches,
water towers) either
with a budget and
vision, or with no cash
and a vague idea.
Relocation in some
form—distance not
important—would be an
asset as would lifestyle
changes. “Ideally we
want people who tick all
these boxes, but if you
think any of your
clients fit, I would love
to get in touch,” says
Mr. Brass E tom.brass
@shinelimited.com
T 020 7313 8076
HUNTSMAN
WRAP is helpoing to
fund a 38,000 tonne
capacity C&D crusher
at Huntsman Quarries
in Gloucestershire
DMG
DMG, owners of Newark
fair, Antiques Trade
Gazette, Loot and Buy
& Sell, had a 10 per
cent increase in
turnover and 50 per
cent increase in profit
in the first half of 2004
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MIKE ROBERTS
(cont from page 1
It cost me another £800 to get
the broken curved acid etched
white flashed pale rose-tint
glass replaced.” This was
done by Aimer Products of
Enfield. “I would have settled
for the £2,000 I was in for, so
£38,000 was very nice.”
“Talking of Enfield, I had a
slight problem with the cast
iron coal bunker by Benham
&Sons which I got from Architectural Reclaim at Enfield.
Nic did not rate the piece so
there was a little arm-twisting
involved to get the estimate
up to £500.” At the sale it sold
for £5019.
Benham & Sons of
Wigmore Street made ranges
and other cast ironware from
1840 and had at one time R
Norman Shaw as their chief
designer. In the first part of
the twentieth century they
were heating engineers to
nobs like Winston Churchill at
Chartwell. They were still
making commercial catering
equipment in 1960.
How he did it
MIKE Roberts, who was
born in Jersey but brought
up in Tunbridge Wells, got a
d e g r e e i n g e o l o g y, a n d
ended up working for a local
builder in 1985 running an
in-house salvage yard.
“I couldn’t relate to the way
geology was taught. For example, there was a ten week
lecture course on trilobite
eyes, but their exoskeletons
exist as fossils, not their eyes.
So these lectures were fiction.
But I liked the subject.
“So I found myself selling
pink bathroom suites for a
builder with a salvage yard
who wanted maximum turnover for the least stock with the
highest profit margin. This
could be frustrating, especially when a georgous
Louis XV fireplace came in
for £1,500 and I knew I could
double up, but he said ‘no
money’. Then the next week
he would offer £5,000 for me
to ‘go and buy stock’. Eventually I left after an argument
over bonuses and a share in
the business, neither of which
he felt inclined to give me.”
Mike then went self-employed renting half a shop in
Tunbridge Wells with an antiques dealer.
“I loved it—I loved the
stuff and I loved the chase.
Most of the stock came from
“In those days it was a hard
place to get into. I remember
Patricia Harvey saying ‘I’m
not sure we want to let in people like you!’ but in the end
she did. Now there is loads of
architectural and garden stuff
there, but not in those days.”
His taste was evolving. He
was doing more sculpture. “I
just tried to keep gradually
improving on quality.” Mike
started doing his own restoration—mainly in marble and
stone.
What was your biggest in-
Mike Roberts … had
to sell so they could
grow vegetables
demolitions and flat conversions,” he said.
Tunbridge Wells council
started selling the leases of
shops in his street in the early
90’s—so he bought his for
£126,000, but as the bank
would only go halves he had
to get his Mum to remortgage
her house, and borrow the rest
off his brother.
Soon he had another shop.
Then in 1996 he set up shop
in London in Queenstown
Road, Battersea—“a rough
old
street
then”—and
launched the Architectural
Emporium.
“I was nervous about buying the shop, which was
selling gay underwear at the
time, virtually blind at auction
because as a result of some legal point they wouldn’t let
anyone in to view.”
Mike started showing at the
decorative antiques fair.
spiration? Seago, Crowther?
“I hate to say it, but it was
Drummonds—at the time they
were in Bramley. I don’t like
Hindhead so much. It is a bit
soulless.”
Around this time Mike upset the Tunbridge Wells
antiques glitterati when he
was interviewed on a Radio 4
programme about Tunbridge
Wells with words to the effect
that the part of Tunbridge
Wells where his shop was
more happening, than the
other (more exclusive) end
where there was a load of
tired old brown furniture. This
invoked angry oak furniture
dealers of Tunbridge Wells
who lambasted him for his temerity.
The other free publicity he
got, in The Observer in 2001,
also landed him in trouble—a
two year tax investigation.
In 2001 Architectural Emporium in Tunbridge Wells
joined up as a Salvo Code
supporter. When he sold the
Queenstown Road shop the
profit “funded a couple of
years of buying”.
Daniel Edmonds joined him
working for Architectural Emporium,
coming
from
Bonhams where he used to
work for Kevin Scott at the
architectural and garden department in Lots Road,
Chelsea (now closed).
He started buying more and
more from other dealers and
auctions. “I got fed up with
buying from demolition because you often had to buy a
lot of stuff you did not want
to get the stuff you did. I
needed to be more selective.”
Finally, what made you decide to sell up?
“I suppose I got disillusioned. I have never been
business-minded, I am not
good at marketing, I shy away
from advertising, the trade is
cut-throat, I did not like pandering to rich clients, and I
did not really like having the
responsibility of so much
valuable stock. In a way you
end up being driven to making
money to prove that your taste
and judgment is right.”
In a way, he has certainly
done that. His aim was to
have the best garden shop in
south-east England.
Last year Mike decided on a
trip round the world with his
partner and their children. He
could not decide whether to
sell up, or continue the business in his absence. In the end
he said they decided they had
to sell to make space to grow
vegetables when they came
back.
What will he be doing when
he comes back? “I expect
there may be some more tinkering,” he said.
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CHRISTIE’S: MIKE ROBERTS SALE
Left: Lot 45: Set of plaster reliefs
in a pine box inscribed ‘British
Museum ELGIN MARBLES
Frieze Work’ £8962 (est £1,500
Below: Lot 46: Pair of bronze
lamps c1900 40in high £13,145
(est £5,000
Above: Lot 21: Gibbsian eared carved pine fire surround, not
including the grate. Sold £31,070 against a £1,500 estimate (all
figures include premiums, all estimates are bottom estimates)
Above: Lot 23: Nursery fender
£2,151 (est £250
Below: Lot 28: c1900 bronze
lantern 16in high £3,346 (est
£800
Above: Lot 34: Neapolitan
bronze, after the antique from
Pompeii, of a faun with
wineskin, 25ins high £2,390
(est £400
The garden of the Bald Faced Stag at
Ashurst where Architectural Emporium
was based, photographed two weeks
prior to the sale, at the time of the
webcast on SalvoWEB, full to the brim
with antiques and a little repro. The
shape and layout of the site seems to
help the display.
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CHRISTIE’S: MIKE ROBERTS SALE
Above: Lot 47: Istrian marble
fountain, early 19thC, 12in high,
£3,107 (est £600
V&A: DRESSER
THE exhibition of Dr
Christopher Dresser (at
the V&A London until
Dec 5th) throws light on
his design pedigree,
but not his Glasgow
background. Dresser
was a trained but
disillusioned botanist,
hence the ‘doctor’, who
turned to design.
Comparisons between
Dresser and William
Morris do not stand up,
when it seems obvious
that Dresser’s natural
zeitgeist was Charles
Rennie Mackintosh.
Nonetheless, the
brilliance, the humour
and the range of the art
speaks for itself. He
rather wonderfully
described himself as
‘an ornamentist’, for
whom money was
never a dirty word, and
who made the right
connections. His
ironwork—a typical
hallstand is on
display—has a masonic
cast. Oddly, what we
know as the
Coalbrookdale ‘water
plant’ cast iron garden
seat is captioned there
as a ‘lily’ seat. Who is
right one wonders?
Above: Lot 64: Pair of bronze
lanterns 29in high £4,541 (est
£1,500
Above: Lot 77: Aesthetic grate in
the manner of C Voysey 30in high
21in wide £3,346 (est £1,000
TK
DIARMUID’S GOING
DOWN WELL IN
AMERICA
Above: Lot 80: Wrought iron
grate, late 19thC, 14in high, 19in
wide £1,434 (est £250
Right: Lot 89: 19thC English
cast iron firegrate, in the manner
of Thomas Chippendale, 31in
high, 28in wide £11,352 (est
£4,000
PRESERVATION Oct 2004 (the US
National Trust’s house mag)
Above: Lot 65: Pair of copper lanterns 27in high £13,145 (est £2,000
Above: Lot 97: Statuary marble tablet (described as a chimneypiece
tablet but looking more like part of a Flaxmanesque memorial) 15ins
wide, together with stiff leaf reliefs 7in square, and a basket of fruit
relief £2,031 (est £300
SalvoNEWS 247 ~ THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2004
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BLACK THACK
CHRISTIE’S: MIKE ROBERTS SALE
SPAB News has a
description of heather
thatch repairs, known
as black thack in its
day, to the last black
thacked house in
Northumberland—
Causeway House,
Vindolanda owned by
the Landmark Trust. An
acre of two feet longstemmed heather was
cut and bundled into
loggins, and then 25
loggins are bound into
threaves. Originally the
close-spaced rafters
were covered with
upsidedown turf divits,
and then the thack was
laid in 2ft thick courses
hung with modern
thatching hooks. The
heather ridge was laid
and held with hazel and
willow staples like giant
hairpins, and then
turved. Thack roofs will
last up to 80 years
Right: Lot
123
Gothic
revival
alabaster
tabernacle
c1860
55in high
31in wide
£2,629
(est £700
Above: Lot 98: Chimneypiece tablet (repaired) of Actaeon and Venus
and attendants 19ins wide £3,346 (est £500
Right: T Elsley grate 28in high
by 32in wide £9,560
(est £1,500
FLYTIPPING
Above: Lot 107: Carved stone
frame with lead fountain mask
£3,585 (est £600
Below: Unusual stoneware urns
impressed WILSON,
BROUGHTON MOOR, c1860,
almost conical socles with big
gadrooning to lower body and
Scottish-style acanthus cast tops
38in high, on pedestals 31in high
£20,315 (est £6,000
FLYCAPTURE is a new
scheme run by the UK
Environment Agency
which results in
confiscation and
crushing of offending
vehicles unless the
owner is found and
fined
POSTERITY MOVES
Footnote: Records exist of two
potteries at Broughton Moor near
Cockermouth in Cumbria: Dearham
Pottery, and Flimby & Broughton
Moor Coal & Firebrick Co. Ltd
Left: Lot
129 a
secret
door for
a library
79in high
33in wide
£1,015
(est £200
Left: Lot
131
French
wrought
and brass
frame with
marble
top 32in
wide 40in
long
£2,868
(est £800
DAVID Erquhart and
Nick have decamped to
Herefordshire after
their auction sale in
September. How did it
go? “Lots of bargains,
everybody went away
beaming: it was a no
reserve sale,” said Mr.
Erquhart. “On balance
we did OK. The garden
stuff did better than the
indoors. A pair of 17th
century French gold
brocade curtains that
cost £400 sold for £8.”
An Ikea chest of
drawers tha sold for
£22 at auction had been
madeover by Lawrence
Llewellyn-Bowen and
Handy Andy on the
Changing Rooms stand
at the BBC Homes &
Antiques Fair at the
NEC. “It even had their
script in one drawer,”
David said. “LLB says
to Handy Andy, ‘I am
going to turn this into
Klimt’. HA: ‘Klimt
Eastwood?’ LLB: ‘No
you silly boy, Gustav
Klimt’. We were next to
their stand and there
was some banter going
on. LLB pointed at our
stand and said to his
audience, ‘If you have
old marble fireplaces,
like those over there,
get rid of them or paint
them silver.’ In return
we shouted helpful and
witty comments back,
which resulted in some
glaring looks,” David
said. Tel 01531 636380
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SalvoNEWS 247 ~ THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2004
CHRISTIE’S: MIKE ROBERTS SALE
Above: Lot 134: Pair of polished cast and
wrought iron console tables stamped
BRINTON 36in high 44in wide £5,975 (est
£800
REVOLVER
DAVE Samuels, the
normally bearded joiner
who, among other
things woody, makes
Rod Donaldson’s
revolving gothic
summerhouses, is seen
here in less familiar
garb in his local village
panto at Kilbarchan,
Renfrewshire. This year
he is playing Captain
Hook
Right: English gloss black painted wrought
iron entranceway from Broadlands, Ascot,
made by Galsworthy designed by Minoprio
& Spencely c1930, 93in high 84in wide
£17,925 (est £6,000
Footnote: Minoprio & Spencely were the
architects who wrote the report which resulted in
the building of Cwmbran new town in 1951
Right: Lot 140:
19thC French
urn, bronze 25in
high £3,107 (est
£800
AMBER ROOM
BURNED?
THE disappeared amber
room, sent as a gift by
Frederick I of Prussia to
Peter the Great of
Russia in 1717, and
used by Catherine the
Great to entertain her
lovers was allegedly
removed from the
Summer Palace in St
Petersburg during the
second world war. Put
simply, the Russian’s
story was that the Nazis
had decided they
wanted it back. But
according to Adrian
Levy and Cathy ScottClark when the
Germans arrived on 22
June 1941 the Russians
had hidden it by leaving
it in situ and creating
walls in front of the
amber panels. But it
was moved and while in
crates in Kaliningrad
Castle was accidentally
burned by Soviet
soldiers. This was not
politically acceptable to
Stalin, so the Nazi story
was made up
Above: Coalbrookdale Festoon chimneypiece
designed by Alfred Stevens c1860 52in high
65 wide £7,767 (est £2,000
Right: Lot 143: Val d’Osne
cast iron urns moulded
raised A DURENNE
Sommevoire H Marne, 24in
high £2,629 (est £800
The Amber Room: the greatest
hoax of the 20thC Levy Scott Clark
RECLAMATION
ROADSHOW
MORE from Melinda:
Sean Rooney of Barn
Fireplaces in Potten
End said, “I suppose
you could just call me
wild at hearth.” Tony
Pattison of Dismantle &
Deal Direct in Aston
Clinton said, “I fell in
love with the idea that
so many people had
Above: Lot 152: Set of four gilt
brass wall lights, 20thC, 23in
high £4,182 (est £1,200
Right: c1880 white marble
chimneypiece, jasper inlay, 64in
high, 82in wide, £38,240 (est
£12,000
SalvoNEWS 247 ~ THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2004
CHRISTIE’S: MIKE ROBERTS SALE
Above: Lot 165: Polished cast
iron hourglass hob register grate
39in high 33in wide £2,031 (est
£500
Above: Lot
197: Pair of
pedestals
c1880 26in high attributed to
Doulton & Co £5,019 (est £800
Below: Lot 201: Limestone
chimneypiece, early 19thC, 47in
high 59in wide £7,170 (est £1,500
Above: Lot 177: Pair of late
19thC cast iron saddle racks,
16in long £1,434 (est £100
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handled and cared for
these materials.” Elaine
Carey of Olde English
Reclamation in Ampthill
said, “We need the
building trade to keep
us going in the winter
when DIY goes quiet.”
Paul Hoare of
Architectural Antiques
(‘a most surprising
place spilling out of a
terraced house into a
surburban street’) in
Bedford ‘explains how
the Victorians, with
their obsession for
covering up, also made
grand fronts for their
kitchen ranges, which
rejoiced in the name
Tidy Betties. Paul’s
fitted several ranges—
one customer wanted
his purely for cooking
the Christmas turkey—
and supplied two
restored examples to
the Black Country
museum.’ Justin of
Nationwide Reclaim
near Wellingborough
said, “We’ve got a great
team of ladies who do
the denailing work.”
Barn Fireplaces 07956
291693. DDD 01296
632300. Olde English
Rec 01525 406662.
Architectural Antiques
01234 213131.
Nationwide 01933
313121
PERIOD HOUSE Oct 04
PARAMOSE
Below: Lot 210: Early 19thC
lead and tin pier lamps, 83in
high £43,020 (est £5,000
HAS anyone had any
experience of
Paramose paint
strippers. Do they
work? Are they methyl
chloride or something
else? Any info
appreciated tel 020
8400 6222 or email
[email protected]
AGGREGATES
Above: Lot 180: English black marble fire surround, c1880, 55in high
73in wide, £13,742 (est £3,000
Left: Lot 196: Fireclay pedestal
impressed Joseph Cliff & Son
Wortley (not Oliff as catalogued)
27in high £3,585 (est £800
Footnote: Joseph Cliff (1806–1879) the
founder of a brick works at Wortley, N Lincs,
also owned Micklefield Colliery near Leeds
with his four sons, and Frodingham Iron
Company, which in 1865 used coke from
Penistone also owned by Cliff. Frodingham
was one of the first to make steel in 1890 after
a Frenchman, M. Toussaint was brought in. In
1889 Burmantofts, William Ingram & Sons of
Worley, Joseph Cliff & Sons of Wortley, The
Wortley Fireclay Company, Joseph Brooke &
Sons of Halifax and Edward Brooke & Sons
of Huddersfield all combined to become the
Leeds Fireclay Company whose products were
branded as Lefcoware
THE £1.7bn a year UK
aggregates sector has,
since May 2002, had to
add £1.60 per tonne
government levy to
then 400m tonnes of
virgin crushed rock it
sells. Recycled
aggregates are only
suitable for low grade
applications, often
landfill by another
name. The aggregates
levy must be applied to
all arisings from
quarries, so that
scalpings, hitherto
cheap or free, are now
not finding their
traditional market for
farm tracks and so on.
Huge stockpiles of
scalpings are beginning
to accumulate in
quarries around Britain,
impeding production of
new aggregate, and
quarry owners are
finding that they have
to pay for scalpings to
be sent to landfill sites.
No wonder global
warming is increasing!
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SalvoNEWS 247 ~ THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2004
CHRISTIE’S: MIKE ROBERTS SALE
Above: Lot 254: Victorian fire
irons £1,912 (est £400
Above: Lot 211: Pine door
surround c1770 115in high
£6,931 (est £2,000
Above: Lot 259: Pair of
fireclay Victorian basketweave
Doulton planters 14in high
£3,824 (est £1,000
Above: Lot 267: Pair of deco
wall lights from Caledonian
Hotel, Hyde Park Corner
London, pink white flash glass
57ins high £38,240 (est £2,000
Above: Lot 217: A bronze
frame c1900 40in by 31in
£3,824 (est £300
Above: Lot 262: Five No451
Blashfield fireclay planters
c1855 14in high £16,730 (est
£4,000
Lot 276: c1800
pine and gesso
fire surround
engaged column
jambs, floral
swag frieze, 49in
high 55in wide
£7,170 (est £1k
Above: Lot 243: Urn finials
attributed to the Handyside
foundry 24in high c1880 £7170
(est £700
Above: Lot 277: English
limewood chimneypiece,
early 20thC, 61in high
74in wide by repute from
Winston Churchill’s office
at the War Office Whitehall
London £31,070 (est
£3,000
Above: Lot 252:
Victorian urns
attributed to
Garnkirk 25in
high £17,925 (est £3,000
Above: Coadestone lidded urn
finials 1791 30in high £35,850
(est £12,000
Right: Lot 283: Pair of
fireclay corbels by Joseph
Cliff & Son c1860 18in
high £1,673 (est £400
Above: Lot 280: Pair of
Victorian Doulton fireclay lion
pedestals 15in high £2,629 (est
£600; also Lot 281: Victorian
fireclay pedestal with raised
laurel wreath 35in high
attributed to Blashfield £2,629
(est £800
SalvoNEWS 247 ~ THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2004
CHRISTIE’S: MIKE ROBERTS SALE
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AMERICAN EXPRESS
HAS anyone been sent a letter
from American Express saying
that they
‘regret to inform you that we find
it necessary to terminate your
American Express Service
Establishment Agreement …’
Salvo and a prominent Chelsea
dealer have both had the letter.
Has anyone else?
Above: Lot 284: Pair of
Victorian fireclay pedestals
£1,314 (est £400
Above: Lot 312: Pair of
French bronze lanterns with
anthemion antefixes and
castellated coronas 26in high
£11,950 (est £2,500
Any info in confidence to Thornton Kay
Salvo 10 Barley Mow Passage, London
W4 4PH. Tel 020 8400 6222
Email [email protected]
Fax 020 8400 6214
Above: Lot 296: Sheet iron
coal or coke hod, 19thC, by
Benham & Sons of Wigmore St
London with Royal Warrant
40in high £5,019 (est £500
Above: Lot 286: Cast iron
Louis XV bombe style fire
basket early 20thC 19in high
22in wide £5,019 (est £400
Above: Lot 297: White and
grey veined marble pedestal
19thC 28in high £3,585 (est
£800
Above: Lot 287: Empire style
cast iron firegrate, early
20thC, 18in wide £2,868 (est
£400
Above: Lot 290: White marble
chimneypiece late 19thC 39in
high 48in wide £10,157 (est
£3,000
Above: Lot 324: Jacobethan oak chimneypiece c1900 92in high
78in wide £7,767 (est £1,000
Above: Lot 300: Pair of
stoneware urns attributed to
Blanchard, serpent handles
and wave scroll banding, 21in
high £38,240 (est £4,000
Left: Lot 291: Louis
XV limestone
chimneypiece arbelete
frieze and lozenges to
jambs 40in high 71in
wide £13,145 (est
£3,000
Above: Lot 328: English pine and gesso fire surround late 18thC
the tablet with amorini, ribbon-tied swag frieze, dolphin end
blocks, stiff leaf capitals over bellflower jambs £10,157 (est
£1,200
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SalvoNEWS 247 ~ THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2004
CHRISTIE’S: MIKE ROBERTS SALE
Above: Lot 331: Coadestone Lion, part of Royal Arms,
impressed COADE LONDON 1820 and DIE (part of Dieu) 20in long
£28,680 (est £2,500
Above: Lot 330: Coadestone Unicorn, part of Royal Arms
impressed COADE & SEALY LAMBETH early 19thC 23in high 23in
long £14,340 (est £2,500
Left: Lot 419: English
sandstone fountain, Victorian,
57in dia £10,755 (est £2,000
Above: Lot 335: Wrought iron
gate 19thC 47in high 42in
wide £1,912 (est £250
Above: Lot 370: Pair of
Pulhams forty thieves vases,
Victorian, 20in high £10,157
(est £1,200
Above: Pair of French
limestone pedestals 20thC 31in
high £4,182 (est £600
Above: Lot 352: Three
polished iron and brass
window frames with opening
fanlights 80in high 42in wide
£4,182 (est £500
Above: Lot 378: Pair of
limestone gargoyles £6,214
(est £600
Right: Pair of red terracotta
Blashfield roundels of Fire and
Earth c1870 18in dia £5,736
(est £500
Left: Lot 368: Pair of large
stoneware urns attributed to
Garnkirk c1870 28in high 34in
dia £10,755 (est £2,000
Below: A French Bourgogne
oval limestone bassin 18in
high 27in wide £5,019 (est
£600
SalvoNEWS 247 ~ THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2004
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CHRISTIE’S: MIKE ROBERTS SALE
Above: Lot 448: Pair of
Portland stone balls 23in dia
£3,824 (est £1,000
Above: Lot 424: Pair of Pulhams
fireclay vases 21in high 24in dia
£14,937 (est £2,000
Above: Lot 558: Pair of 18thC
carved sandstone urn finials
20in high £4,541 (est £300
Above: Lot 510: Four Bath
stone urns 24in high £7,767
(est £800
Above: Lot 517: Portland
stone pool surround 77in dia
£8,365 (est £2,000
Above: Lot 518: Three stone
troughs up to 32in long £3,585
(est £800
Above: Lot 444: Fireclay urn
30in high £13,742 (est £1,200;
Lot 445: Scottish fireclay
pedestal with relief moulded
grapes and vine by David
Methven (not Methuan as
catalogued) & Sons Kirkcaldy
19in high £3,346 (est £300
Footnote: Kirkcaldy had a thriving
pottery industry, with a number of
potteries in production at the end
of the 19th century, dominated by
David Methven & Sons who
produced white dinnerware, bowls
and mugs and brown teapots as
well as garden urns [Decorative
Pottery at Prestongrange. Jane
Bonnar 2000
Above: Lot 446: Lead figure of
Pan attributed to J P White 25in
high on empanelled stone pedestal
64in high £15,535 (est £1,800
Above: Lot 546: Rosso Verona
marble well head, late 18thC,
the body carved with lion
masks, fruit festoons and
trophies, with later ironwork,
99in high overall £53,775 (est
£10,000
Below: Lot 575: Large
fountain basin tazza, No711 by
Blashfield, Stamford Lincs
c1865 48in high 57in dia
£38,240 (est £8,000
Above: Lot 522: Pair of modern
compo Jacquemart dogs 31in
high £5,377 (est £800
Above: Pair of Scottish cast
iron gatehouses made by
Carron designed by E McRae
£21,510 (est £12,000
Above: Four Portland stone
urn finials 40in high £22,705
(est £12,000
Photos by
kind permission
and copyright of
Christie’s plc
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SalvoNEWS 247 ~ THURSDAY, 21 OCTOBER 2004
❖ Salvo Theft Alerts ❖ Salvo Theft Alerts ❖
GREECE
Stolen from Paliouria, Grevena,
Greece in August 2004.
A pair of carved SANCTUARY DOORS
and overdoor SCREEN PANEL, the
doors, 165cm by 70cm, with rosettes,
flowers, lions head, acantha, the
Virgin, Gabriel, two saints on horses,
the screen 67cm by 30cm, with shield,
griffins, acantha, rosettes and birds.
Contact : Greek Ministry of Culture. Tel
+30 210 825 8673. Fax +30 210 821
2035.
Crime Ref : YPPO/GDACH/DMEEP/
G2/F41/72848/1956 (Dir. of Museum
Area : Attica (Athens), Greece (Int tel +30) No: ta24703 Date: 15 Oct 2004
AVON & SOMERSET POLICE
Stolen from Bristol
UK on 6 Aug 2004.
A 17th Century cast
iron cannon approx
6ft long (1.8m)
Contact: Antique desk, Avon & Somerset Police. Tel 01275 816730
Crime Ref: 9083/04
User: Police Area : Bristol, UK (Int tel +44) Date: 13 Oct 2004
DORSET
Stolen from
Portesham, Dorset
UK on 3 October
2004.
Two pairs of BALL
FINIALS, one pair on
unusual ogee socles
and the other on
stepped plinths
Contact: Dorset Police.
Tel 01305 251212.
Crime Ref: C04W47694
User : Admin Area : Dorset, UK (Int
tel +44) No: ta24702 ID: 1 (7491)
Date: 5 Oct 2004
KENT POLICE
Stolen from Tonbridge, Kent UK on 24 September
2004.
A vertically mounted DEMI-LUNE SUNDIAL, with
semicircular dial and copper or bronze gnomon,
mounted on a square white stone or marble shaft
on an octagonal column with decorative capital
and square base.
Contact: DC 5945 West Kent Police, Tonbridge
UK. Tel 01732 370644 or 07980683239
Crime Ref: BZ/010363/04
User: Admin (Police subscribers) Area : Kent, UK (Int tel +44)
No: ta24701 Date: 1 Oct 2004
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ASPECT ROOFING SPECIAL TILES
ASPECTS SPECIAL TILES DIVISION SPECIALISES IN THE SUPPLY OF
RARE ROOF TILES AND COPING STONES
ARCHITECTURAL
ANTIQUES
aa-fireplaces.co.uk
We operate a five acre site near Norwich in Norfolk
where we hold thousands of different tiles in stock.
Over 300 Traditional
French Fireplaces
IN STOCK
Stone Marble
Trade Terms
If we do not have the tiles or coping stones that you
require in stock we can probably locate them using
our extensive database.
We also have the facility to reproduce virtually any tile
in our factory. Given a sample we can construct a mould
and make replicas. The replicas are made from concrete but can be colour matched to most types of clay
or concrete tile.
Tel: 020 8741 7883
Fax: 020 8741 1109
Antique & Heritage Pieces
Delivery can be arranged nationwide.
For further information on any of the above or to add your stock to our database please contact:
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351 King Street,
LONDON W6 9NH
DORSET
RECLAMATION
Bere Regis, Near Poole
Mellow Old Red Bricks
Weathered Clay Tiles
& Welsh Slate
Flagstones, Quarry Tiles
& Stable Pavers
Old English Oak, Elm
& Pine Beams
Flooring & Doors
Period Porcelain Basins
& Cast Iron Baths
Marble Fireplaces
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Delivery arranged
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Architectural Salvage
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Swinderby Road, Collingham,
Newark, Notts
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RONSONS wanted
PETER WELDON IRON DESIGNS
inc NORTON STONE & MASONRY
Walling, Ornamental Stone, Bricks
Flagstones, Roof Tiles, Slates,
Cotswold Tiles, Oak & Elm Beams
Bygones, Cider Mills, Ironwork
Flooring & Much More
Inspired by the antique
Design and Fabrication in Iron and Steel
Bandstands, Pavilions, Summerhouses,
Bridges, House and Garden Structures,
Garden Furniture, Estate Gates and
Railings, Granite Tables
Also, designs to customer specifications
Norton Barn, Wainlodes Lane
NORTON, Gloucestershire GL2 9LN
and now at
Sandhurst Quay, Upper Parting,
Sandhurst Lane, SANDHURST,
Gloucester GL2 9NQ
Repton House, 126 Princes Road,
Hartshill, Stoke on Trent,
Staffordshire ST4 7JL England
Off the A38 north of GLOUCESTER
Tel & Fax: 01782 876360
Mobile: 07769 580040
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.peterweldonirondesigns.co.uk
Tel 01452 731236
Fax 01452 731888
antique CHURCH
CHURCH SPECIALIST requires pews, pulpits, balustrading, choir fronts, altars, rails,
screens - all areas. Also surplus timbers for
sale. Contact Barry Chilton (Lancs UK) tel/
fax 01257 273095
[UK T
WANTED BRASS CHURCH and chapel
commemorative plaques, ideally with engraved borders. Please contact John Gall
at Beamish Museum (Co Durham UK). Tel
0191 370 4000. Fax 0191 370 4001
[
ca24701 Mus 1
antique DOORS
UP TO EIGHT MATCHING MAHOGANY
doors wanted, 3ft min wide, plus architraves and, ideally, decorative overdoors.
Please contact John Gall at Beamish Museum (Co Durham UK). Tel 0191 370 4000.
Fax 0191 370 4001
[UK mus
antique FREEMASONRY
ANTIQ UE
STONE FIRE SURROUNDS
GARDEN STATUARY
WA N T E D
CONTACT:
Alex Puddy
01386 584 414
[email protected]
MASONIC ITEMS WANTED BY MUSEUM
Beamish are undertaking a major Masonic
Temple rebuild and wish to source 'First
Class' masonic items such as windows,
fireplaces, benches and internal fittings.
Contact John Gall Co Durham UK. Tel 0191
370 4000. Fax 0191 370 4001. Web :
www.beamish.org.uk
[UK mus
antique KITCHENS
WANTED ENGLISH ROSE and Paul aluminium kitchens in any condition. Tel
Source 01225 469200
[Somerset UK T
architectural IRON & METAL
SCRAP WROUGHT IRON pre-1850 railings, plate from bridges, tie bars from
trusses or gasholders always wanted. Contact Real Wrought Iron Co. Tel 01845
501415. Fax 501072.
[N Yorks UK T
reclaimed BRICKS
HANDMADE BRICKS, reclaimed, large
quantities, 50,000 plus. Tel Romsey Rec
01794 524174
[Hants UK T
HANDMADE BRICKS 2ins-23/8ins orangey red. Antique Buildings 01483 200477
[Surrey UK T
reclaimed FLAG, TILE, PAVERS
Reclaimed
OLD 2ins BRICK PAVERS. Contact Robert
Grimmond at Woodlands 01483 235536
[Surrey UK T
GARDINERS
Building Materials
Largest stocks in north Staffordshire
We BUY and SELL Staffordshire
blue roof tiles, red or brown roof
tiles, handmade wirecut or facing
bricks, cobbles, slates, quarries,
pavers, sleepers, chimneys,
flagging, oak etc
Open MON – FRI 8am to 5pm, SAT 9am to 2pm
TEL or FAX 01782 334532
Mobile 07860 886835
Brocksford St, FENTON, Stoke on Trent
Massive stocks:
• Reclaimed York Stone Flags
• New Flags (Sandstone/Limestone)
• Reclaimed Stone & Granite Setts
• Reclaimed Stone Kerbs/Channel
• Cobbles, Duckstones, Bricks, Slates
• Copings, Heads, Cills, Mullions
• Walling Stone & much much more!
NATION/WORLDWIDE SERVICE
TEL: 01942 866666
FAX: 01942 866661
EMAIL: [email protected]
The Stone Centre, Ince Moss
Industrial Estate, Cemetery Road,
WIGAN WN3 4NN
Antiqued Garden Statuary
Cash and Carry
(Some slight seconds available)
Stock includes: Gargoyles, Garden Benches,
Statues, Urns, Birdbaths, Cats, Dogs, Pigs, Gremlins,
Chucklestones, Pebble People and lots more.
Stock changes daily
Open Mon–Fri by appointment
Please call 01730 895182 (Hants)
HGC Ltd
Rake Industries, Rake,
Nr Petersfield, Hants
Trade Only
Ideal for Antique shops, Yards, Shippers and
Exporters
reclaimed FLOORING
OLD OAK floorboard, min 7ins wide. Antique Buildings 01483 200477
[Surrey
UK T
DESPERATELY SEEKING panga panga
woodblock, 31/2ins wide English oak strip.
Top prices. Contact Declan Molloy, Victorian Wood Works. Tel 020 8534 1000. Fax
020 8534 2000
[Essex UK T
RECLAIMED PINE FLOORBOARDS, maple strip and roof boards, large quantities of
good-sized joists, woodblock, anything
considered. Phone Damian Cronin 07785
288544
[Middx UK T
SEEKING Reclaimed Burmese teak strip
for own house, up to 350sqm required, will
consider anything. Tel (London UK) 020
8507 5961
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reclaimed ROOF SLATE & TILE
ORANGE RED PEG and nib tiles, 101/2ins
by 61/2ins. Antique Buildings 01483
200477
[Surrey UK T
ROOFING TILES AND SLATES, all types,
size, quantities considered. National coverage. Contact : Andy, Wedge Reclaim. Tel:
(Staffordshire UK) 01283 548030 or 07967
818098 Web: www.wedge-roofing-centres.
com
[ca24607 T 2
reclaimed TIMBER & BEAMS
OLD OAK beams and barn frames. Antique Buildings 01483 200477
[Surrey
UK T
WANTED RECLAIMED RAILWAY sleepers, hardwood or softwood. Can purchase
in quantities of 10,000 at a time. Must be of
good quality. Romsey Reclamation. Tel
01794 524174 (int +44 1794 524174) fax
514344
[Hants UK T
for sale
antique BATHROOMS
CATCHPOLE & RYE stock the largest selection of original antique sanitaryware in
the UK. We also purchase interesting
items. Tel 01233 840457. Web www.crye.
co.uk. Email [email protected] [Kent UK T
antique DOORS
ANTIQUE DOORS always in stock, leaded glass and wood panel. Also a large
selection of coloured leaded glass windows. Prices from £9 to £1,000. Email
photos sent worldwide. Please contact
Bingley Antiques, Springfield Farm Estate, Flappit, Haworth, W Yorkshire BD21
5PT.
Tel
01535
646666.
Email
[email protected]
Web
www.bingleyantiques.com NB:closed
Sundays and Mondays
[UK T
antique FITTINGS
PEW ENDS, SEATS & BACKS, approx
120no pew ends, some pairs, most pairs
with one wall end, some oddments. Pine
and pitch pine. Pew seat and back available
at GBP20 per metre. Ask for Lindsay or
Charles (W Yorks UK) Tel 01422 377314.
Price : £500+vat the lot
[ca24603 T 2
FREE-STANDING FLOOR counter unit recently removed from old chemists shop. Art
Deco, walnut and mahogany (we think),
10ft 6ins (3.2m) overall length, glass centre
display section with loads of little drawers
each side. Contact Chris at Bridgwater
Reclamation (Somerset UK) Tel: 01278
424636. Web : http://www.reclaiming.it
Price : £400
[ca24601 T 2
architectural IRON
RECLAIMED RADIATORS, 2, 3 & 4 column, Edwardian to 1930’s, refurbished and
tested. Call RBS 024 7663 9338. [Warks
UK T
architectural TERRACOTTA
RECLAIMED PIER CAPS and coping large
amounts for sale. Please telephone Steve
Shirley (Lancs UK) 07831 638949. Trade
prices on bulk purchases
[ca24602 T 2
reclaimed FLOORING tiles, pavers
18,000no VICTORIAN BLUE PAVERS,
10ins by 5ins, dressed and palletted. 288no
per pack. Contact : Craig Chapman, Phoenix RBM, Warwickshire, UK Tel: 01789
751448 or 07836 700452. Web : www.
granitesets.co.uk. Price: £600 per thousand
[ca24606 T 2
reclaimed FLOORING wood
ANTIQUE OAK FLOORBOARDS 27mm
thick, 8ins-13ins wide, original floorboards,
some with patina. Designers and architects
look no further! Telephone Victorian Wood
Works 020 8534 1000
[Essex UK T
OAK FLOORBOARDS. Oak beams. Oak
cut to cutting lists. Oak plank doors made to
measure. Also pine and elm. Tel RBS 024
7663 9338.
[Warks UK T
LARGE STOCKS OF ANTIQUE OAK floorboards 6ins to 12ins. Tel Country Oak
01273 833869 or 07702 974418 [W Sussex UK T
reclaimed ROOF SLATES & TILES
4500no WELSH SLATES, 24ins by 12ins,
A1 condition. Price £1.50ea. Contact Craig
Chapman, Phoenix RBM, Warwickshire,
UK Tel: 01789 751448 or 07836 700452
Web : http://www.granitesets.co.uk/
[ca24604 T 2
BRIDGWATER RECLAIMED coloured
glaze clay roof tiles in various tile patternsPantiles in green, blue, black and plum
glaze. Blue glazed standard and bold roll
double romans. Black glazed standard roll
double romans. Green glazed bambinos.
Extensive stocks now available to create a
stunningly unique roof. Contact : Chris at
Bridgwater Reclamation, Somerset, UK.
Tel: 01278 424636
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reclaimed TIMBER & BEAMS
OAK BEAMS, JOISTS, RAFTERS etc.
Large stocks available, also large quantity
of early pit-sawn joists, 3.8m-5.0m lengths,
8ins by 3ins, very competitive rates for large
quantities. Tel Country Oak, 01273 833869
mobile 07702 974418
[W Sussex UK T
OLD OAK BEAMS and hardwood railway
sleepers, large quantities available, trade
and private enquiries welcomed. Call RBS
Oak 024 7663 9338.
[Warks UK T
replica repro
COMPOSITION STONE
DRAGONSTONE. Manufacturers and
trade suppliers of antique reproduction
statuary and garden ornament. Contact
Hampshire Gardencraft Ltd, Rake Industries, Rake, Nr Petersfield, Hants GU31
5DR. Telephone 01730 895182. Fax 01730
BOOK NOW, PAY IN JANUARY 2005 for lowest prices. Call 020 8761 2316
K N E B W O R T H
SALVO FAIR 2005
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SUN 3 JULY
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Email
[email protected]. Website www.hampshire
-gardencraft.com
[UK T
IRON
REPLACEMENT SPARE PARTS for cast
iron fireplaces, ash covers, frets, bars,
hoods etc. Very large range of stock. Capital Fireplaces. Tel 01462 813138. [Beds
UK T
REAL WROUGHT IRON CO, maker of genuine wrought iron sections and sheet,
supplies to blacksmiths worldwide, your
own scrap converted. Contact Chris Topp &
Co. Tel 01845 501415. Web www.real
wroughtiron.com
[N Yorks UK T
LIMESTONE FLOOR TILES
JERUSALEM HALILA limestone, 40cms
by 40cms by 2cms, honed finish sawn edges, pale honey cream, available from
Khotah Stone Ltd. Price £32.50 per sqm ex
works. Trade enquiries welcome. Sample
materials supplied at trade prices. Please
contact Jay on (UK) 01772 491304. Mobile
07866 601108
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Wellers Auctioneers
ARCHITECTURAL &
GARDEN ANTIQUE
AUCTIONEERS
SALES ARRANGED NATIONWIDE
ON CLIENTS’ PREMISES
RECENT SUCCESFUL SALES HELD
FOR:
GW Cottle and associates
Architectural Reclaim
Pew Corner
“Have Gavel will Travel”
For further details please contact:
Glen Snelgar FRICS
Fax: 01932 568678
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The largest Indian Sandstone
importer in the World is now
entering The Reclamation Industry
Price on Application
All Enquiries welcome
Office 01636 526087
Mobile 07786 174301
Tel: 01932 568626
Email: [email protected] Web:
www.wellers-auctions.co.uk
Wellers Auctioneers 70 Guildford Street
Chertsey Surrey KT16 9BB
WOOD
NEW OAK FLOORBOARDS and oak
planks for sale, trade and private enquiries
welcomed. Call RBS Oak 024 7663 9338
[Warks UK T
Comley Lumber Centre
business
Email [email protected]
Web www.comleydemo.co.uk
Tel: 01252 716882
Fax: 01252 715201
SAWYERS, MANUFACTURERS AND CONTRACTORS
RECLAIMED OR NEW
OAK, ELM, JARRAH, PITCH PINE BEAMS
SAWN & SELECTED TO CLIENTS’ NEEDS
SPECIALIST SUPPLIERS OF RECLAIMED
INTERNET
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Price £300 plus vat per year for 300 items,
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£30 a year rental.
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detail photos, includes 1) announcement by
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Price £50 plus vat.
Old Pine Flooring resawn from
beams (Victorian to recent)
Planed to order, 3/4in thick, up to
12ins wide, up to 20ft long
WOOD FLOORS
VERSAILLE PANELS & INLAID PARQUETRY
Hand made – Hand finished – Old Patinas
Full time floorlayers – Worldwide Contracts
FINEST QUALITY HANDCRAFTED JOINERY
Old Pine Floorboards
as they come, painted,
unpainted, and reworked to your
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~
All from our own demolition
Call for prices
Trade welcome
54 River Road, Creekmouth,
BARKING, Essex IG11 ODW
Tel 020 8534 1000
Fax 020 8534 2000
LONDON • NEW YORK
www.victorianwoodworks.co.uk
[email protected]
SALVO PUBLICATIONS
USA DIRECTORY - from Alabama to Wyoming, 550 dealer and allied addresses,
latest update September 2002. Price £20
inc p&p.
SALVO GUIDE 2000 - 240 page pocket
book, 1,000 auction results with photos,
500 potted histories of makers, handy 50
page reference section. UK price £9.95 inc
p&p, overseas £12.45
RADIATOR HEAT OUTPUT SHEETS - 45
different old cast iron radiators, hospital,
column and panel, all heights, with and
without feet, lengths from 1 to 30 sections,
with your business name printed on each
sheet, photocopiable to give out to your
customers. Price £80
auctions
PHONE BEFORE VISITING
sat 23 oct
Diss, Norfolk
Architectural salvage & statuary
Carl Willows Gaze 01379 650306 (UK)
THE SLEEPER
People
Ribble Reclamation
Quality (Grade A)
Granite & stone setts
Ornamental & walling stone
Old & new stone flooring
Cast ironwork
Oak beams & railway sleepers
Chimney pots & roofing stone
Gateposts, heads & sills
Stone slab 6ft by 3ft
RAILWAY SLEEPERS
Delivered At Trade Prices
280/300 sleepers per load
Prices on application
Oak or Beech
10ins x 6ins x 8ft 6ins
Office: 01621 816138
Mobile: 07802 985644
Fax: 01621 815937
Architectural Antiques
for Building & Garden Design
Constantly changing stock
2 mins from M6 Junction 31
The Brick House, Ducie Place, Preston PR1 4UJ
Tel: 01772 794534 Fax: 01772 794604
Email [email protected]
Website www.ribble-reclamation.com
www.twgaze.com
sat 30 oct
Yapton, W Sussex
Salvage at Yapton Metal Co
Peter Jones 01243 551359 (UK)
Stocks of timber, cast fire
inserts, fire surrounds, wood and
marble, flagstones, oak and pine
panelling, chimney pots,
weathered bricks, cast column
rads, pavers, cobbles, roll top
baths, Victorian basins, sleepers,
butlers sinks, roof tiles and more
Opening hours
Mon - Fri 8.30am - 5.00pm
Sat 9.00am - 4.30pm
ACE RECLAMATION
Tel: 01202 579222
Heathercroft, Barrack Road
West Parley, FERNDOWN
Dorset BH22 8UB
www.acedemo.co.uk
sat 6 nov
Diss, Norfolk
Rural and domestic bygones
Carl Willows Gaze 01379 650306 (UK)
www.twgaze.com
exhibitions&fairs
until 5 dec
V&A, London
Christopher Dresser 1834 - 1904
until 19 jan
Trajans Market, Rome
Colored marbles in Imperial Rome
mon 8 - sun 14 nov
Olympia, London
Olympia fine antiques fair
E W TRADING
QUALITY ANTIQUE OAK FLOORING
RECLAIMED OAK BEAMS AND JOISTS
Hexagonal & square terracotta floor tiles
from barns, houses and chateaux in France
Full loads, part loads and individual orders welcome
Also: new flooring, ledge & brace doors in new and old oak, roof
timbers, beams and joists cut to suit ~ in green oak and douglas fir
EMAIL: [email protected]
TELEPHONE: (France) 00335 65 36 22 13
TELEPHONE: (UK) 01769 574147
MOBILE: (UK) 07812 835554
www.ewtrading.co.uk
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