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The Dorset Auction

Auction date Thursday 22 July 2021
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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 

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Commission Bidding and Telephone bidding is also available. 


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Total lots: 189

THE MANSEL-PLEYDELL ESSAY PRIZE MEDAL, 1905
Lot 121 Unsold
THE MANSEL-PLEYDELL ESSAY PRIZE MEDAL, 1905
awarded by the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, by John Pinches, London, in fitted case; together with two 'Dorchester Farthings', each showing the Arms of `dorchester to the obverse and marked 'H.D. (Hospital of Dorchester) 1669' to the reverse (3)
Estimate: £25 - £50
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
A PAIR OF GEORGE III COADE STONE STOUPS,
Lot 122 Sold
A PAIR OF GEORGE III COADE STONE STOUPS,
early 19th century, of urn form, and oval section with everted rims and fluted bodies, the fronts each modelled with a swagged armorial shield bearing a cross potent, the reverses each with a rectangular attachment lug, on waisted socles, the rectangular bases each inscribed COADE. LONDON at one end, 26cm high x 33cm wide x 27cm deep
Note: Eleanor Coade was born in Exeter in 1733, the daughter of a wool merchant. By the 1760s she…
Hammer price: £850
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
A STONEWARE FLAGON FOR STYLE JAMES & CO,
Lot 123 Sold
A STONEWARE FLAGON FOR STYLE JAMES & CO,
Grocers of Dorchester, with another for Hayne of Fordington, and two further stoneware vessels, the flagons 38cm high, the lidded jar 24cm high and the baluster jar 21cm high (4)
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
DORSET VERNACULAR HISTORY INTEREST; A COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY METALWARE,
Lot 124 Sold
DORSET VERNACULAR HISTORY INTEREST; A COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY METALWARE,
including a stove door, a kettle and a cooking tripod (a lot)
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
A COLLECTION OF 19th CENTURY DOMESTIC METALWARE
Lot 125 Unsold
A COLLECTION OF 19th CENTURY DOMESTIC METALWARE
including a toleware spice box, standing on bun feet, a number of preserving pans, a Kendrick & Co cooking pot and a meat press by Wilks Bros & Co (a lot)
Estimate: £50 - £100
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
AN OAK CASED LONGCASE CLOCK BY STEPHENSON OF DORCHESTER
Lot 126 Sold
AN OAK CASED LONGCASE CLOCK BY STEPHENSON OF DORCHESTER
with painted and signed square enamel dial with calendar aperture, eight day movement, 209cm high
The National Archives hold the will of a William Stephenson, Clock and Watch Maker of Dorchester ,…
Hammer price: £360
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
A VICTORIAN FUSEE WALL CLOCK
Lot 127 Sold
A VICTORIAN FUSEE WALL CLOCK
the painted enamel dial signed Saunders, Dorchester, with signature and service dates inscribed on the back of the dial, the case 38cm diameter
Thomas Saunders and his son, also Thomas, were local clockmakers who also made the clock for the…
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £200 - £400
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
HENRY MOULE'S PATENT MECHANICAL DRY EARTH CLOSET
Lot 128 Sold
HENRY MOULE'S PATENT MECHANICAL DRY EARTH CLOSET
97cm high, with enamel pail
In 1859, the Reverend Henry Moule of Fordington invented the first composting toilet after deciding…
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £200 - £400
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
WILLIAM BARNES INTEREST: A WALKING STICK
Lot 128a Unsold
WILLIAM BARNES INTEREST: A WALKING STICK
belong to John Barnes, the brother of William Barnes, with a terminal in the form of a recumbent hound, incised "JONH BARNES", 89.5cm

Provenance : a gift from the Talbot Family to the owners of Ilsington House, Puddletown, Dorset
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
JOHN SPEED AND JODICUS HONDIUS 'DORSETSHYRE'
Lot 129 Sold
JOHN SPEED AND JODICUS HONDIUS 'DORSETSHYRE'
"With the Shyre town Dorchester described as also the Armes of such noble families as have bene honored with the Titles thereof since the Normans Conquest to this present Anno 1662." from Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine', 1676 edition, engraving with hand colouring, 41.5cm x 55cm
Provenance: The Collection of Roy and Anita FurseyBoth scientists, Roy and Anita Fursey were avid…
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £200 - £400
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
LAURIE'S 'THE COUNTY OF DORSET'
Lot 130 Sold
LAURIE'S 'THE COUNTY OF DORSET'
'Distinguishing its divisions, hundreds and liberties....', by John Outhett, published by Richard Holmes, 56.5cm x 70.5cm
Provenance: The Collection of Roy and Anita FurseyBoth scientists, Roy and Anita Fursey were avid…
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £80 - £150
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
MICHAEL DRAYTON AND WILLIAM HOLE 'DORSETSHERE'
Lot 131 Sold
MICHAEL DRAYTON AND WILLIAM HOLE 'DORSETSHERE'
a stylised map of Dorset, Western Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, with the characteristic anthropomorphic spirits of the rivers, settlements and other features of the land, created for Drayton's epic poetical work on the origins of Britain 'Poly-Olbion' hand-coloured engraving, 25.5cm x 33cm
Provenance: The Collection of Roy and Anita FurseyBoth scientists, Roy and Anita Fursey were avid…
Hammer price: £180
Estimate: £200 - £400
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
JOHN OGILBY 'THE ROADS FROM EXETER TO DORCHESTER AND PLYMOUTH TO DARTMOUTH'
Lot 132 Unsold
JOHN OGILBY 'THE ROADS FROM EXETER TO DORCHESTER AND PLYMOUTH TO DARTMOUTH'
hand coloured strip road map, taken from 'Brittannia...Description of the Principal Roads thereof', 1698 edition, 32.5cm x 46cm; together with a small John Cary map of Dorsetshire, 23cm x 27.5cm (2)
Provenance: The Collection of Roy and Anita FurseyBoth scientists, Roy and Anita Fursey were avid…
Estimate: £150 - £250
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
EMANUEL BOWEN 'DORSET SHIRE'
Lot 133 Unsold
EMANUEL BOWEN 'DORSET SHIRE'
dedicated to the Right Hon. Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury, published by John Tinney for John Bowles & Son, hand coloured engraved map, 60cm x 76cm (unframed); together with a similar unframed map of the County of Dorset surveyed by Isaac Taylor, published by Faden, July 1st 1796, 57cm x 79cm (2)
Provenance: The Collection of Roy and Anita FurseyBoth scientists, Roy and Anita Fursey were avid…
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
DORSET CARTOGRAPHY: A SMALL QUANTITY OF UNFRAMED MAPS
Lot 134 Sold
DORSET CARTOGRAPHY: A SMALL QUANTITY OF UNFRAMED MAPS
to include an example by Haywood and Sudlow engraved for J Harrison and dated 18th June 1789, a map of the Isle of Purbeck with hand coloured boundary lines with facsimile signature for Colonel Henry James of the Royal Engineers and similar examples (9)
Provenance: The Collection of Roy and Anita FurseyBoth scientists, Roy and Anita Fursey were avid…
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
ROBERT MORDEN 'Dorset Shire'
Lot 135 Sold
ROBERT MORDEN 'Dorset Shire'
hand coloured engraved map, sold by Abel Swale, 43cm x 47cm; Blaeu, J., map of the county of Dorset, 'Comitatus Dorcestria sive Dorsettia vulgo Anglice Dorsetshire', for volume IV of the "Atlas Novus", arranged with shields, coats of arms and several galleons, 50cm x 58.5cm; and a map of Weymouth Bay by by Captain Greenvile (or Greenville) Collins, with dedication to Captain George St. Lo, 47cm x 58cm (all unframed)
Provenance: The Collection of Roy and Anita FurseyBoth scientists, Roy and Anita Fursey were avid…
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
RICHARD BLOME (1641-1705) 'A MAPP OF YE COUNTY OF DORSET'
Lot 136 Unsold
RICHARD BLOME (1641-1705) 'A MAPP OF YE COUNTY OF DORSET'
Thomas Taylor edition c. 1715, hand coloured with table of divisions and hundreds upper left, 19.5cm x 25.5cm; together with a map of Norfolk (2) . Provenance: The Map House, Knightsbridge, London
Estimate: £50 - £100
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
JOHN 'HB' DOYLE (1797-1868) 'The Rival Mount O'Bankes or The Dorsetshire Juggler
Lot 137 Unsold
JOHN 'HB' DOYLE (1797-1868) 'The Rival Mount O'Bankes or The Dorsetshire Juggler
a political satirical cartoon concerning the 1831 reform act, coloured lithograph; a coloured map of Dorsetshire and two town plan maps, Poole and Blandford Forum (4)
Estimate: £50 - £100
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
GEORGE JONES (1786-1869) 'Mr Weld, Rome'
Lot 138 Unsold
GEORGE JONES (1786-1869) 'Mr Weld, Rome'
a profile sketch, titled and dated 1830 lower left, 1830, pencil sketch, 15.5cm x 12cm

The sitter in this portrait is probably Edward Weld of Lulworth (1806-1877) and undertaken during a trip to Rome to visit his uncle Cardinal Thomas Weld (1777-1837)
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
JOHN BLUCK (FL, 1791-1819) 'Belfield House, Weymouth'
Lot 139 Sold
JOHN BLUCK (FL, 1791-1819) 'Belfield House, Weymouth'
a view from the sweeping drive looking toward the country house, with sheep in parkland to the foreground and the Isle of Portland to the distance, signed and dated 1818 lower left, oil on canvas, 28cm x 39cm
Belfield House is an 18th-century country house, located in Wyke Regis, Weymouth, Dorset. Built…
Hammer price: £1,600
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
ATTRIBUTED TO THE REVEREND WILLIAM BARNES (1801-1886) A Group of three Dorset landscape studies
Lot 140 Unsold
ATTRIBUTED TO THE REVEREND WILLIAM BARNES (1801-1886) A Group of three Dorset landscape studies
'Stour Road' watercolour, inscribed in pencil verso "Recollections No. 2, Stour Road" 22nd Oct 1855, WB", watercolour, 9cm x 14cm; 'Shaston Road', monogrammed lower right, dated 23rd Oct 1855 to the margin (printed), watercolour, 7cm x 13.5cm; 'Cutmill' monogrammed lower right, dated 21st Oct 1855 to the margin (printed), watercolour, 8.5cm x 11.5cm (3)
Multitalented poet and autodidact William Barnes was born in Rushay, Dorset. He worked as a clerk…
Estimate: £400 - £800
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
HENRY GEORGE HINE (1811-1895) 'Durlston Head'
Lot 141 Sold
HENRY GEORGE HINE (1811-1895) 'Durlston Head'
A bay with figures on the shore, signed lower right, watercolour, 28cm x 37.5cm
Landscape-painter and comic illustrator Henry George Hine has a number of recorded works of the…
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
HENRY JOSEPH MOULE (1825-1904) A GROUP OF THREE WATERCOLOURS OF DORCHESTER
Lot 142 Unsold
HENRY JOSEPH MOULE (1825-1904) A GROUP OF THREE WATERCOLOURS OF DORCHESTER
'Dorchester from Cokers Frome', 14cm x 10cm, 'At Cokers Frome', 16cm x 13.25cm, and 'Frome Lane', 14cm x 10cm (3)
Henry Joseph Moule was an English watercolour artist, and friend of Thomas Hardy. He was born at…
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021
HENRY JOSEPH MOULE (1825-1904) 'Honeysuckle Cottage, Cokers Frome'
Lot 143 Unsold
HENRY JOSEPH MOULE (1825-1904) 'Honeysuckle Cottage, Cokers Frome'
vignette view of a cottage with the River Frome running before it, watercolour, 16cm x 19.5cm (oval); together with a similar view 'At Cokers Frome', watercolour, 16.5cm x 29.5cm (2)
Henry Joseph Moule was an English watercolour artist, and friend of Thomas Hardy. He was born at…
Estimate: £100 - £200
22 July 2021
22 July 2021

Total lots: 189

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