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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 121 Sold
A QUEEN ANNE OAK JOINED STOOL
circa 1710, the oval top with an “S”-scroll hand slot over a plain frieze, the underframe with plain turned and squared legs joined by conforming stretchers and ending in turned feet, 49cm wide x 33cm deep x 61.5cm high

Provenance: According to family records, the underside of the stool originally had a label inscribed “Sandford Orcas Trust” indicating it was probably acquired by Hubert Hutchings in the late 19th century.
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 122 Sold
A CHARLES II OAK BENCH TABLE
circa 1660 and later, with shaped arms on baluster supports over a rectangular seat with a moulded edge and recessed metal hinges, the front with a lunettecarved frieze over a pair of rectangular panels carved with stylised flowerheads and leafage, the sides with conforming decoration, on sledge feet and later castors, the folding rectangular top secured with pegs fixing into circular apertures in the arms, the left hand side of the seat branded “PS”, 94cm wide x 53.5cm deep x 120cm high
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 123 Sold
A GEORGE II WALNUT HANGING CORNER CUPBOARD
with a barrel-front, the simple moulded cornice over a pair of doors opening to reveal an interior of bow-fronted shelves, 92cm high x 57cm wide
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 124 Sold
AN EDWARDIAN OAK STICK STAND
with a moulded frame, four turned uprights and a lunette-carved frieze at the front and sides, the base with a tin tray divided into two sections, 61cm wide x 35cm deep x 70.5cm high
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 125 Sold
FERRARESE SCHOOL, circa 1600 The Head of Christ
with a castle on a hill beyond, oil on panel, 29cm x 24cm, in a Florentine giltwood frame carved with curling acanthus leaves

Provenance: Ven House, Milborne Port, and inscribed on the reverse of the frame “Small Drawing Room right of windows”.
Hammer price: £5,000
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 126 Sold
A GEORGE II GILT TOLE HALL LANTERN
probably circa 1750, the square body with four glass panels with arched tops, the moulded tole frame retaining traces of the original gilt and red paint, the shaped top incorporating a circular glass shade beneath a gilt crown finial, with later fittings for electricity including the later chain, 42cm high and the panels 29.5cm wide

This hall lantern is wired for electricity and must be removed at the Buyer’s risk and expense.
Hammer price: £4,000
Estimate: £800 - £1,500
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 127 Sold
A PAIR OF BRASS LANTERNS
of hexagonal form with pierced decoration, now fitted for electricity, 32cm high; and three others located on the stone spiral staircase off the Screens Passage (5)

Four of these lanterns are wired for electricity and must be removed at the buyer’s risk and expense.
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 128 Sold
A PAIR OF WROUGHT IRON LAMP BRACKETS
17th century or later, painted in black and gold, the scrolling design with spiraling leaf terminals and flowerheads, now fitted for electricity, 68cm x 63cm (2)

These lamp brackets are wired for electricity and must be removed at the buyer’s risk and expense.
Hammer price: £350
Estimate: £200 - £400
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 129 Sold
A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY AND MARQUETRY "BANJO" BAROMETER
circa 1800, by Thomas Bates of Markett (sic) Harbro, with a silvered thermometer and a circular gauge, the case inlaid with panels of conch shells and flowerheads beneath a triangular arched pediment centred by a brass urn finial, 99cm high x 26cm diameter
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 130 Sold
A BRONZE MODEL SIGNAL CANNON
the plain barrel of tapering multi-stage form with raised mouldings, knob-shaped cascabel, plain trunnions, with filled touch hole, on a stepped carriage of naval type with brass covered trucks, 33cm barrel
Hammer price: £950
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 131 Sold
A CARVED STONE ROYAL BADGE
18th/19th century, the vacant oval panels surrounded by an inscription “Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense” surrounded by a crown, flanked by a lion and a unicorn supporter and flowers, 31cm high x 42cm wide
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 132 Sold
AN EDWARDIAN COUNTRY HOUSE LETTER BOX
with a glazed front and an end door, inscribed in gilt beneath the slot “Post arrives - leaves”, 38.5cm wide x 26cm high; together with a polished stone door stop; and an ammonite (3)
Hammer price: £190
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 133 Sold
A LEATHER SHOTGUN CASE
the top stencilled ‘H. M. MEDLYCOTT’, opening to a red baize-lined interior containing part of an old gun cleaning set, 83cm wide; together with a pair of cased Airlord binoculars; a cased pair of Carl Zeiss Jena binoculars; a shooting stick; a truncheon; and various walking sticks (a lot)
Hammer price: £290
Estimate: £50 - £100
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 134 Sold
A CONTINENTAL HUNTING HANGER
17th/18th century, with tapering double-edged blade, etched along both sides of the forte with hounds pursuing quarry amidst swirling fruits and foliage, pommel cap of octagonal form with rounded flat button and grip of tapering octagonal section veneered in tortoiseshell divided by ivory stringing, 44cm blade

Ivory Submission Reference: 7V7C7356
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 135 Sold
A HALBERD, A PARTIZAN AND A SPONTOON
18th century, the first with tapering double-edged blade with circular piercing on both sides, with pierced crescentic axe-blade with hooked projections opposite and below (one hook with missing terminal); the second with broad tapering triangular blade pierced and engraved with an elaborate martial trophy surmounted by a classical figure brandishing a sword, with two upcurved lugs at the base;
and the third with leaf-shaped blade with stubby lugs; all on later wooden staffs of circular…
Hammer price: £2,600
Estimate: £400 - £600
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 136 Sold
A BRASS-HILTED HUNTING HANGER
18th century, the guard cast and chased in relief with a classical figure and hunting scenes, the grip bound with fish skin in leather scabbard (the blade is seized within), 58cm; together with an Islamic short sword with horn grip and endorsed eagle quillons, and velvet scabbard and straps en suite, with partially legible engraving on the locket ‘Taken by... in his first....against the Turks’, 44cm blade; and a 19th century Nepalese kukri (lacking by-knives) (3)
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 137 Sold
A PAIR OF 1796 PATTERN LIGHT CAVALRY OFFICER’S SABRES
one blued and gilt with foliage, a stand of arms, crowned ‘GR’ cypher, the Royal Arms, and a mounted cavalryman, regulation steel stirrup hilt with facetted back piece, wire bound leather covered grip, in its steel scabbard with two suspension rings, the second is seized in the scabbard with some blue and gilt visible and with fish skin grip, both with inscriptions on the locket for Charles Hutchings, East Somerset, Yeomanry Cavalry, Yeovil Troop, on the locket, 83cm blades;
and a 19th century percussion d.b. box-lock pocket pistol with carved stock (3)
Hammer price: £2,600
Estimate: £300 - £600
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 138 Sold
A SWORD WITH SILVER-ENCRUSTED HILT
probably 17th century, with sharply tapering blade of flattened section, with encrusted foliate engraved hilt with silver inlays of stylised flowers and foliage, double shell-guard, lobed rear quillon, globular pommel with button, wooden diagonally fluted grip bound with twisted steel wire, and retaining traces of original parcel gilding, 82cm blade
Hammer price: £2,800
Estimate: £200 - £400
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 139 Sold
AN 18TH CENTURY SCOTTISH HILT FOR A CLAYMORE
with iron guard of flattened bars framing panels pierced with hearts and circles within incised line borders, the main panels centred on saltires, the side panels each with ram’s horn terminals with an oval aperture for the reins, fore-guards and a scrolled wrist-guard (lacking pommel)
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £300 - £600
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 140 Sold
AN OFFICER’S SILVER AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED FLAP POUCH AND BELT
the silver face with engraved borders of foliate scrolls and the centre mounted with a gilt crowned ‘VR’ cypher, with Birmingham silver hallmarks for 1840, maker’s mark ‘J & Co.’ for Joseph Jennens & Co.; the belt fittings with a Georgian head but incompletely hallmarked with maker’s mark ‘IH’; together
with another plain belt (2)
Hammer price: £850
Estimate: £200 - £400
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 141 Sold
A CHARLES II OAK GATELEG TABLE
with an oval flap top over a plain frieze incorporating a single drawer at one end and on baluster-turned legs joined by conforming stretchers at either end and long rectangular stretchers along the sides, 141.5cm x 165cm open

Provenance: This table appears in a photograph of the Great Hall dateable to circa 1877 and later in a photograph of the Dining Room circa 1916.
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 142 Sold
A VICTORIAN OCCASIONAL CHAIR
with a swept button back and a compass-shaped seat, on turned front legs ending in brass toe caps and castors, 60cm wide x 91.5cm high
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £100 - £200
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 143 Sold
A CHARLES I OAK CREDENCE TABLE
circa 1640 with later elements, the canted rectangular top opening on recessed “butterfly” hinges over a lunette-carved frieze with a central drawer at the front, the arcaded frieze carved with flowerheads, guilloche and scalloping, on simple turned legs with a gateleg action to support the flaps and the base platform with a guilloche-carved moulding below, on block legs and turned feet, 150.5cm wide x 49.5cm deep x 81cm high
Hammer price: £580
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
6 March 2024
6 March 2024
Lot 144 Sold
A CONTEMPORARY BURR ELM DINING TABLE
by Tim Stead, designed as two trestle tables with thick burr elm tops, the top inlaid with irregular geometric patterns in bronze, with a naturalistic edge along one side, the trestle bases naturally formed from planks and on sledge bases, 155cm x 196cm overall with the two tables pushed together; and a set of six elm chairs ensuite (8)
Hammer price: £6,000
Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000
6 March 2024
6 March 2024

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