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Auction date Wednesday 15 October 2025 10:30 - 17:30 BST

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William Batt


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Lots per page:

Total lots: 590

Lot 148 Sold
A GROUP OF FOUR GEORGE II AND LATER SILVER TABLE SPOONS
various dates and makers, including an Old English Pattern example, by George Smith, London 1750, and three fiddle shaped, London 1837, 9 tr. ozs combined (4)
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £200 - £300
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 149 Sold
A GEORGE III AND LATER SILVER FIDDLE PATTERN HARLEQUIN PART CUTLERY SERVICE
various dates and makers, including three George IV table forks possibly by William Chawner II, London 1822, and six Victorian dessert spoons by Henry Holland, London 1862, 50 tr. ozs combined gross (35)
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £800 - £1,200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 150 Sold
A QUANTITY OF GEORGIAN SILVER HANDLED TABLE KNIVES
with curved steel blades, marks rubbed, each 28cm long, and a Victorian silver handled Kings Pattern table knife, London, 1870 (18)

Provenance: Galhampton Manor House.
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 151 Sold
A QUANTITY OF SILVER TEASPOONS
including three feather edge examples and four possible Scottish examples (hall marks rubbed), a silver fork and a pair of silver sugar tongs, 5 tr. ozs combined; together with a silver plated magnifying glass (a lot)
Hammer price: £80
Estimate: £80 - £120
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 152 Sold
A 19TH CENTURY WHITE METAL LADLE
with scalloped bowl; together with a selection of silver flatware and other items, 24.5 tr. ozs combined gross; and a small selection of silver plate (a lot)
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £300 - £500
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 153 Sold
FIVE VICTORIAN SILVER FIDDLE PATTERN TABLE FORKS
by George Adams London 1865/66; together with a George III silver fiddle pattern table spoon, Exeter 1817; a quantity of silver/white metal tea and commemorative spoons, including a set of six Danish enamelled white metal coffee spoons, cased; and a set of six white metal gilded spoons, 18 tr. ozs combined gross (a lot)

Provenance: Galhampton Manor House.
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £300 - £500
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 154 Sold
A SET OF TEN ELIZABETH II SILVER HANDLED TABLE KNIVES
by United Cutlers, Sheffield, 2000, with steel blades, each 24.5cm long; together with ten similar dessert knives each 22cm long (20)
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 155 Sold
AN ELIZABETH II SILVER JUBILEE SEAL TOP CADDY SPOON
by Payne & Son, London 1977, 13cm long; together with a set of six George V silver teaspoons by Josiah Williams, London 1917, cased with matching sugar tongs; two silver butter knives; a quantity of loose silver teaspoons, 10 tr. ozs; a set of six George V silver handled tea knives, the silver by Robert Pringle, Sheffield 1917, cased; and a silver plated butter knife (32)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 156 Sold
A LATE VICTORIAN SILVER PLATED TEA KETTLE
with arched handle, the shaped panelled body engraved with leaves and with stand and burner, 34cm high overall; together with a pair of tall modern Indian silver plated candlesticks; and three other silver plated items (6)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 157 Sold
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN SILVER PLATED CANDLESTICKS
the leaf and scallop moulded bodies with circular sconces and reeded stems, 15cm high; together with a similar bottle coaster with wooden insert, 5cm high x 18cm diameter; a silver plated fiddle pattern basting spoon; and a set of four silver plated Rat Tail pattern dessert spoons (8)
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 158 Sold
DUTCH SCHOOL, LATE 18TH CENTURY Northern European market scene
depicting women at a fruit stall, oil on canvas, 72cm x 59.5cm
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 161 Sold
STEPHEN ELMER (1717-1796) A covey of partridges in a landscape
oil on canvas, 37.5cm x 45.5cm
Hammer price: £1,700
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 162 Sold
STEPHEN ELMER (1717-1796) Two partridges in a mountainous landscape
oil on canvas, 38cm x 45.5cm
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 163 Sold
CIRCLE OF STEPHEN ELMER (1717-1796) A covey of partridges in a wooded landscape
oil on canvas, 63.5cm x 76cm, bears Christie's stencil verso
Hammer price: £1,700
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 169 Unsold
GEORGE HENRY JENKINS (1843-1914) An overcast coastal landscape
signed lower left and dated indistinctly, oil on canvas, 28cm x 45.5cm
Estimate: £200 - £400
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 170 Sold
GEORGE HENRY JENKINS (1843-1914) 'Bickleigh Vale, near Plymouth'
signed lower left and dated indistinctly, oil on canvas, 28cm x 45.8cm
Hammer price: £100
Estimate: £200 - £400
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 171 Sold
JOHN WARKUP SWIFT (1815-1869) Coastal scene
1868, depicting fishing boats on the shore, signed and dated lower right, oil on canvas, 30cm x 45cm
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £200 - £400
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 172 Sold
MANNER OF CHARLES VERLAT (1824-1890) Female nude in a landscape
bears initials lower left, print overpainted with oils and laid to artist's board, 26cm x 20cm
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £50 - £100
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 173 Sold
ATTRIBUTED TO LUKE CLENNELL (1781-1840) 'Into the Shelter of the Wood'
oil on panel, 12cm x 16cm; together with a second oil on panel landscape attributed to the same hand, entitled 'The Windswept Grey', 12cm x 16cm (2)

Provenance: with the Macdonald Booth Gallery.
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £100 - £200
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 174 Sold
ENGLISH SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY A successful Ratter
the terrier standing in an interior, oil on canvas, 48cm x 59cm
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £80 - £150
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 175 Unsold
ASCRIBED TO JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT (1796-1875) Figures working in a landscape
signed lower right, oil on panel, 24cm x 34cm

Provenance: With pasted paper label verso reading "J.B.C. Corot A panel - French landscape with figure, signed, from the Baroness Burdett Coutts Collection";
Private collection, Dorset.
Estimate: £800 - £1,500
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 176 Unsold
GEORGE TURNER (1843-1910) A wooded landscape
with travellers camping to foreground, signed lower right, oil on board, 30cm x 40.5cm
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 177 Unsold
J. C. SLOPER (19th Century) A portrait of a couple in a landscape
1839, he with a hurdy gurdy across his chest, signed and dated lower right, oil on canvas, 34cm x 26cm

Provenance: Property of a West Country collector.
Estimate: £300 - £500
15 October 2025
15 October 2025
Lot 178 Sold
CLAUDE LORRAINE FERNELEY (1822-1891) 'Harlequin'
1874, depicting a hunter in a stable, signed and dated lower right: 'Claude L Ferneley Melton Mowbray', oil on canvas, 59cm x 77cm
Hammer price: £900
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
15 October 2025
15 October 2025

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