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Sandford Orcas Manor: Auction of the Contents

Auction date Wednesday, 6 March 2024 10:30 - 17:30 GMT

Auction

Wednesday 6th March at 10.30am

at Duke's Fine Art Saleroom, DT1 1GA


Viewing

at Sandford Orcas Manor, DT9 4SB

Entry will be by catalogue only.  £30 admits two people.

SILVER, JEWELLERY, MEDALS AND STAINED GLASS TO BE VIEWED AT DUKE'S DORCHESTER SALEROOM, DT1 1GA

Saturday 2nd March 10am - 4pm 

Sunday 3rd March 10am - 4pm

Monday 4th March 10am - 4pm

Tuesday 5th March 10am - 4pm

Please note:

Access at the Manor is limited with uneven surfaces and steep stairs.

We regret the property is not wheelchair accessible.


To pre-order a catalogue or if you have any enquiries please contact 

sandfordorcas@dukes-auctions.com or call +44 (0)1305 265080

£30 (plus postage)


Bidding:

 Live bidding will be available for this auction through this website, The Saleroom and Easylive Auction. Please ensure your registration is completed early to avoid disappointment. Commission Bidding and Telephone bidding is also available. 

Unfortunately, Duke's are unable to offer a postal or delivery service. We are pleased to recommend reputable carriers and can advise on air-freight and other forms of dispatch.

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


Collection

On proof of payment, purchased lots will be available for collection from Sandford Orcas from Wednesday 6th March to Wednesday 13th March from 10am - 4pm, excluding the weekend 9th - 10th March. Whilst we are happy to provide assistance please bring the requisite people required to collect your purchases. All items not collected from Sandford Orcas Manor by 4pm Wednesday 13th March will be moved to Sackville-West, (Andover) at the buyer's risk and expense.

Specialist Items: Removal of all electrical fittings, garden effects and large furniture is entirely at the buyer's risk and expense. Please note that we will be unable to provide assistance with these items.


Storage Charges

Items removed to Sackville-West in Andover will be available for collection from 9am on Monday 18th March. A minimum storage charge of £20 (plus VAT) per lot, and a further storage charge of £3 (plus VAT) per lot, per part or full day thereafter. These charges will be the sole liability of the purchaser, and will be billed directly to them by Sackville West, (Andover). Sackville-West may be willing to adjust their charges if they are instructed by the purchaser to deliver to them. On payment of all sales and storage costs items will be available for collection by appointment from Sackville-West., (Andover). These charges are set by Sackville-West., (Andover); we recommend that you contact them directly regarding queries relating to these charges and other matters arising in relation to storage. Staff at the saleroom will be unable to answer questions relating to items that have been removed from Sandford Orcas. 

Sackville-West -www.sackvillewest.co.uk - 02080 909988

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Lots per page:

Total lots: 492

Lot 422c Sold
A COLLECTION OF BRITAINS AND OTHER PAINTED LEAD AND METAL SOLDIERS
a Britains painted lead coronation throne (incomplete); and other plastic soldiers (a collection)
Hammer price: £30
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 423 Sold
A LETTER FROM FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
headed “General Hospital Balaclava, June 21st 1856” acknowledging the supply of provisions "...They proceed from different sources. 1. Her Majesty the Queen of whose gifts little remain. 2. “Free gifts” addressed to myself. 3. “Crimean Army Fund” ditto. 4. Myself .... I have the honour to be your obedient Florence Nightingale”, 4 pages, in manuscript and with an annotation inscribed “Miss Nightingale .... 1856 ... certain articles for the Crimean Soldiers Garrison”
Hammer price: £1,500
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 424 Sold
COLEN CAMPBELL: "Vitruvius Britannicas"
or “The British Architect containing the Plans, Elevations and Sections of the Regular Buildings both Publick and Private in Great Britain” with a variety of new designs in 200 large folio plates, 3 volumes, full calf with gilt tooling; and two additional volumes by Woolfe & Gandon Architects published 1767, full
calf with gilt tooling, the inner boards marbled within a gilt-tooled spiraling border and with marbled end papers, 55.5cm x 38cm
Provenance: Inscribed “HH”, for Hubert Hutchings, “The Gift of the 3rd Duke of Leinster, 1873”, and…
Hammer price: £12,000
Estimate: £2,000 - £4,000
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 425 Sold
HUTCHINS, THE REVEREND JOHN: "The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset"
4 volumes, half-calf with gilt-tooled decoration and marbled boards (4)
Hammer price: £1,500
Estimate: £400 - £600
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 426 Sold
GARNER, THOMAS AND STRATTON, ARTHUR: "The Domestic Architecture of England During the Tudor Period"
2 volumes, published London 1909, cloth bound, 48.5cm x 36cm (2)
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 427 Sold
"THE COATS OF ARMS OF THE QUEEN AND ALL THE LORD'S SPIRITUALLS AND TEMPORALL OF GREAT BRITAIN"
sold by Philip Lea, Globemaker at The Atlas & Hercules in Cheapside, London, circa 1705, 12mo. contemporary calf binding with hand-coloured plates throughout
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £150 - £250
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 428 Sold
SARAH PRICE: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FUNGI OF OUR FIELDS AND WOODS
published for the author by Lovell Reeve & Co, Covent Garden, London 1864, first and second series, with numerous hand-coloured plates, quarto, in the original embossed and gilt-tooled cloth bindings (2)
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £300 - £500
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 429 Sold
A RARE 18TH CENTURY PAMPHLET: "A Catalogue of the Antiquities, Houses, Parks, Plantations, Scenes and Situations in England and Wales"
"arranged according to the alphabetical order of the several counties”, octavo, with later paper-covered boards
Hammer price: £1,500
Estimate: £150 - £250
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 430 Sold
"EAST SOMERSET REGIMENT OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY"
printed 1st April 1823 at Ilminster by J. Moore, 12mo, the end papers inscribed “Captain Hutchings” with various historical notes, in the original foliate embossed full calf binding
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £150 - £250
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 431 Sold
THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT
12vols, published London 1765, with copper plates throughout, small octavo, with full contemporary calf bindings (13vols - vol 2 in two parts)
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £300 - £500
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 432 Sold
THE CYCLOPAEDIAN OR ATLAS OF GENERAL MAPS
published by Edward Stanford, London 1874, quarto, in the original half calf binding with cloth boards
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 433 Unsold
THE VEN GAME BOOK
manuscript 1827, half calf with cloth and gilt tooled title, with brass clasps; and five other game registers (a collection)
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 434 Sold
THE MEDLYCOTT FAMILY BIBLE: THE HOLY BIBLE
containing the Old and New Testaments, newly translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty’s Special Command Appointed to be Read in Churches, printed by The University Printers, Oxford 1701/2, in an exceptionally fine “Oxford” morocco binding with tooling in gilt, red and blue, inscribed “As the gift of William Coles to William Coles Medlycott, 1st Baronet 1824” and with additional later signatures and inscriptions, 53.5cm x 36cm
Hammer price: £16,500
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 435 Sold
TWO MINIATURE 18TH CENTURY BIBLES
one in a fine gilt tooled contemporary red morocco binding, the other with a later binding; and a collection of other small and miniature books (a collection)
Hammer price: £1,600
Estimate: £150 - £250
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 436 Sold
A CHARLES II BIBLE
published London 1671, with illustrations and red-ruling throughout, octavo, retaining the contemporary on-laid leather binding
Hammer price: £1,200
Estimate: £200 - £400
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 437 Sold
JOHN EVELYN: "Sylva or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions"
2nd edition, published London 1670, with a supplement at the back “Pomona” or an appendix concerning fruit-trees in relation to cider, quarto, in contemporary calf with gilt-tooled spine
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £300 - £500
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 438 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
including “An Academy of Grown Horsemen” by G. Gambado, published 1787; “Annals of Horsemanship” by G. Gambado, published 1791; two Hutchings family bibles; “Collinson’s History of Somerset”, 3vols, published 1791; Phelps “History of Somerset”, 2vols, published 1836; Moule’s “English Counties” with numerous maps, 2vols, published 1836; a scrap album and other volumes (a collection)
Hammer price: £2,800
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 439 Sold
BIRDS OF EUROPE
vols I-III, by Bree; The Holy Bible, 3vols, with fine gilt tooled calf bindings; and three other volumes (9)
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 440 Sold
A MANUSCRIPT: "CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AT THE MANOR HOUSE, SANDFORD ORCAS"
quarto, half-calf with marbled boards and gilt tooling
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £200 - £400
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 441 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
mainly Dorset and Somerset topography, and other volumes (a collection)
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 442 Sold
A COLLECTION OF VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOKS
(a collection)
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £200 - £400
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 443 Sold
A COLLECTION OF BOOKS
including: “The Fruit Grower’s Guide”, 3vols, green cloth with gilt tooling; “The Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles” by WJ Bean, 3vols; and a collection of calf bound antiquarian books (a collection)
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £200 - £400
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 444 Sold
"THE LADY'S FLOWER-GARDEN OF ORNAMENTAL ANNUALS"
by Mrs Loudon, published London 1840, with numerous hand-coloured plates, quarto, with a contemporary gilt-tooled green cloth binding
Hammer price: £340
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 445 Unsold
A GENEVA BIBLE
translated according to the “Ebrew and Greekwe”, imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1611, quarto, in a contemporary full-calf binding
Estimate: £200 - £400
6 March 2024
6 March 2024

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