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The Dorset Auction

Absentee bids accepted until Thursday, 22 July 2021

Auction date Thursday, 22 July 2021

Duke’s are delighted to be holding our inaugural ‘Dorset Auction’ a sale to celebrate the history, literature, arts and crafts of the county. Featured in this auction will be the Derek Mills Library: A Collection of Thomas Hardy and Dorset Books. 

Auction:
Thursday 22nd July at 10.30am

Viewing: 

Saturday 17th July 9:30am - 12pm

Monday 19th - Wednesday 21st July, 9.30am - 5pm

From 9am the day of the Auction 

Bidding: 

Live Bidding will be available for this auction through this website. 

Please ensure your registration is completed early to avoid disappointment. 

Commission Bidding and Telephone bidding is also available. 


For more information please contact Duke's on 01305 265080 or email enquiries@dukes-auctions.com


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Lots per page:

Total lots: 189

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
73 *EDWIN CHARLES PASCOE HOLMAN BWS (1882-1955) 'Hangman's Cottage, Dorchester'
watercolour, and two watercolours of Dorset heathland (3)
£100 - £200 £80 View
74 WILLIAM BUSK (1861-1942) A woman peeling vegetables in an interior
signed and named on the back of the frame, inscribed on the back "Bought by Alfred Pope of South Court for 7gns on 7 November 1907 and given to Rev. Richard Grosvenor Bartelot", oil on canvas
£100 - £200 £80 View
75 AN ALBUM OF SKETCHES FROM THE 1820'S /1830'S
Artist unknown. Containing scenes of northern Italy, France, Austria and England, including some exercises in perspective, and drawings of Bloxworth House, Dorset.
£100 - £200 - View
76 MUSIC: BOOK OF MANUSCRIPT HYMN TUNES BY WILLIAM KNAPP,
vellum bound, cover detached, with a collection of correspondence and articles, copies of similar compositions and 9 bookmarks.
£50 - £100 £700 View
77 A GUINEA BALANCE
by Thomas Williams, London, c.1774, the steel beam with articulated ends, two brass pans and a tassel to suspend them from, in a fitted carved wooden case, with weights and brass hook clasp, makers…
£50 - £100 - View
78 FORDINGTON ST. GEORGE CHURCH EPHEMERA
including: The History of Fordington (3 copies0; The Calvary Carol, 1910 (2 copies); Christmas Carol 1897 by Rev. R Grosvenor Bartelot; New Year Carol 1947 by Bartelot (written during his final…
£100 - £200 £80 View
79 DORCHESTER INTEREST: AN OAK WAINSCOT CHAIR
made from medieval timbers from the roof of St George's Church, Fordington, with all-over foliate carved decoration, the back with mythical beasts and the date "1600", inscribed to the underside "The…
£200 - £400 £320 View
80 DORCHESTER INTEREST: AN OAK TREFOIL TABLE OR 'TRINITY STOOL'
made from medieval timbers from the roof of St George's Church, Fordington, inscribed to the underside "Made of old oak from the burnt roof of St George's Church, Fordington. Ri: Grosvenor Bartelot,…
£100 - £200 £110 View
81 DORCHESTER INTEREST: AN OAK CREDENCE TABLE
made from medieval timbers from the roof of St George's Church, Fordington, the canted top above a carved arcaded apron, standing on four carved and fluted legs joined by an undertier, 96cm wide x…
£200 - £400 £260 View
82 THOMAS HARDY: A LETTER FROM THE DEAN OF WESTMINSTER
to The Reverend R. Grosvenor Bartelot marked "Private" and dated "1928" relating to the Dean's permission to bury Thomas Hardy at the Abbey and the controversy about Hardy's Christianity; together…
£100 - £200 £2,000 View
83 EMMA L. HARDY: SPACES - AN EXPOSITION OF GREAT TRUTHS BY A NEW TREATMENT,
Maxgate, April 1912, inscribed "R. Grosvenor Bartelot from Mrs Thomas Hardy of Max Gate 1912"
£100 - £200 £90 View
84 RICHARD LOCKE: THE WESTERN REBELLION
Containing an account of all the persons arraigned and tryed by Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys, printed and sold by H. Norris, Taunton, 1782.
£100 - £200 - View
85 A PACQUET OF ADVICES AND ANIMADVERSIONS SENT FROM LONDON TO THE MEN OF SHAFTESBURY
printed London 1676
£80 - £150 £90 View
86 ALFRED POPE: "THE OLD STONE CROSSES OF DORSET"
2nd edition, printed at the Chiswick Press and sold by Henry Ling, Dorchester 1906; a pamphlet "The Walks and Avenues of Dorchester" by Alfred Pope FSA 1916; and a printed leaflet "Memorial Service…
£80 - £150 £70 View
87 H.J. MOULE MA: DORCHESTER ANTIQUITIES,
Henry Ling, Printer and Publisher 1901; James Savage: The History of Dorchester, published by G. Clarke, Cornhill, bound with a note from Upcerne House, Cerne Abbas, 1915; John Braye: Swanage (Isle…
£80 - £150 - View
88 THE REVEREND R. GROSVENOR BARTELOT, MA, FSA: OUR FAMILY SURNAME,
privately printed 1944; a booklet: The Vanished Medieval Castles of Dorset by The Reverend R. Grosvenor Bartelot; and Natural History of Dorset and Somerset, inscribed by R. Grosvenor Bartelot …
£80 - £150 - View
89 ST. GEORGES PREBENDAL CHURCH FORDINGTON: A COLLECTION OF MATERIAL
including: a pamphlet "Restoration after Damage by Fire"; a pamphlet "The Story of Fordington St. George"; The Monthly Messenger, May 1916; an invitation to the Vicar's wedding, Wednesday November…
£100 - £200 £70 View
90 ST. GEORGES PREBENDAL CHURCH FORDINGTON: A PAMPHLET FOR THE GRAND JAPANESE FETE AND FANCY FAIR 1914,
and an album of black and white photographs of the event (2)
£50 - £100 £45 View
91 A VICTORIAN PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH ON GLASS
inscribed to the reverse "William Oldfield Phippard, Esq. of Wareham Priory 1845", a portrait silhouette inscribed to the reverse "The Reverend William Oldfield Bartelot, Rector of Canford d.1843" (2)
£50 - £100 £50 View
92 DORSET INTEREST: A HANDWRITTEN INDENTURE
detailing the transfer of an estate between a Brune Dackombe of Corfe Castle and a John Voegt, ink on vellum, mounted on card
£100 - £200 £60 View
93 A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS ON VELLUM,
largely 18th and 19th century, including items relating to both Dorset and Somerset (a lot)
£100 - £200 - View
94 THOMAS HARDY INTEREST: A COLLECTION OF DEEDS
relating to a property, number 3, Durngate Street, Dorchester, gifted by Hardy to his sister Katherine in 1916, with Messrs Lock, Reed & Lock Solicitors, Dorchester, the indenture dated 4 July…
£2,000 - £4,000 - View
95 HARDY, THOMAS., THE WELL-BELOVED,
'A Sketch of a Temperament', from 'Thomas Hardy's Works', 'The Wessex Novels Volume XVII', published 1911, London, Macmillan and Co ., Limited., and further volumes in matched gilt tooled leather…
£500 - £1,000 £460 View
96 THOMAS HARDY 'Wessex Poems and Other Verses'
first Canadian edition, published by George N. Morang & Company Ltd, Toronto, 1899
£50 - £100 - View

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