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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
121 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…
£25 - £50 - View
122 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…
£800 - £1,200 £850 View
123 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)
£100 - £200 £90 View
124 DORSET VERNACULAR HISTORY INTEREST; A COLLECTION OF 19TH CENTURY METALWARE,
including a stove door, a kettle and a cooking tripod (a lot)
£100 - £200 £90 View
125 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)
£50 - £100 - View
126 AN OAK CASED LONGCASE CLOCK BY STEPHENSON OF DORCHESTER
with painted and signed square enamel dial with calendar aperture, eight day movement, 209cm high
£100 - £200 £360 View
127 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
£200 - £400 £300 View
128 HENRY MOULE'S PATENT MECHANICAL DRY EARTH CLOSET
97cm high, with enamel pail
£200 - £400 £380 View
128a 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…
£100 - £200 - View
129 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 …
£200 - £400 £200 View
130 LAURIE'S 'THE COUNTY OF DORSET'
'Distinguishing its divisions, hundreds and liberties....', by John Outhett, published by Richard Holmes, 56.5cm x 70.5cm
£80 - £150 £80 View
131 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…
£200 - £400 £180 View
132 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)
£150 - £250 - View
133 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…
£100 - £200 - View
134 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…
£100 - £200 £240 View
135 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…
£100 - £200 £220 View
136 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
£50 - £100 - View
137 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)
£50 - £100 - View
138 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…
£100 - £200 - View
139 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,…
£500 - £1,000 £1,600 View
140 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…
£400 - £800 - View
141 HENRY GEORGE HINE (1811-1895) 'Durlston Head'
A bay with figures on the shore, signed lower right, watercolour, 28cm x 37.5cm
£100 - £200 £100 View
142 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)
£100 - £200 - View
143 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)
£100 - £200 - View

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