Clevedon Salerooms held their final Interiors sale of 2024 on Thursday November 14th at the Kenn Road Auction Centre. It was certainly a ‘grand finale’ as spirited bidding across all sections saw healthy and impressive results across the board and a rousing finish to what has been a highly successful twelve months of Interiors sales with some record breaking results over the course of the year.
Top price of the day was for a collection of silver and later GB coinage in three cases, including sixpence, threepence, shillings, florins, and half crowns, an impressive collection which sold for an equally impressive £2,500. A Credit Suisse 20g fine gold ingot pendant set twelve diamonds to the corners, also performed well, selling for £1,250, whilst a Victorian 9ct gold double Albert trombone link watch chain, with double-sided swivel fob and two dog link weighing in at a hefty 55g sold for £1,100. Amongst the day’s other top jewellery prices, a yellow metal plaited link necklace with 'reef knot' stamped ‘750’ setting weighing 28g sold for £1,040 and, from the same private source, a similarly marked yellow metal plaited link bracelet, weighing 25g sold for £950.
Whilst the majority of the day’s top prices were concentrated amongst Coins and Jewellery, good prices were achieved throughout all categories. Asian art can always be relied upon to produce some pleasingly surprising results and so it was that two Chinese jade bi disc pendants, each carved and pierced with a central bird within scrollwork, well and truly flew past their estimate to sell for £1,100. And one of the day’s biggest surprises was provided courtesy of an early 20th century Marklin boxed trainset comprising locomotive, tender, carriages and Hornby Dublo track, which left its estimate standing at the station, selling for a remarkable £900.
Having completed a record-breaking year of Interiors ales attention now turns to our final Quarterly Fine Art sale of 2024, on December 5th. In what promises to be a fitting climax to another exciting year for Clevedon Salerooms some of the leading lots include a a Martin Brothers stoneware ‘Wally Bird’, a rare and unusual 1960s Whitefriars glass architectural panel, two early 20th century Howard & Sons armchairs and a polished serpentine model lighthouse.