Fairground Magic

This fantastic 48 keyless 'Carousel' Fair Organ was made in 1991 by Mr and Mr Peter Trueman, Organ Builder and Restorer. The Organ comes with 32 tunes and as you can hear, is in working order. As the nights are drawing in, fill them with fairground festivities. The Organ will be offered to auction in our Wednesday 30th October Antique and Interiors Sale.

Time to Chime

A Comitti of London bracket clock with 8 day movement and striking mechanism, 31cm high

Estimate £80 - £120

for Auction 16th October at Boldon Auction Galleries

Pick of the week

We are thrilled to be 'The Pick of the Week' in this week's Antiques Trade Gazette

Read all about the record breaking Lenci figure we sold last week.

 

By 

Roland Arkell

• 07 Oct 2019

Stylish Lenci skyscraper lady is on top of the auction world after £34,000 bid

The stylish Art Deco pottery figures for which Ars Lenci became celebrated were first shown at the Turin international exhibition in 1928.

Among the large-scale models unveiled that year was Il Grattacielo (Skyscraper), a striking figure of a young lady with a compact and powder puff standing on one of the high-rise buildings that had began to occupy Europe’s land-strapped cities.

As with many Lenci models, the designer Abele Jacopi (1882-1957) took a cue from the pages of Vogue magazine, dressing the subject in a modish black and white polka dot dress with orange bow.

Local source

The example offered for sale at Boldon Auction Galleries near Sunderland on October 2 was in relatively good condition with just some small chips to the extremities.

It came for sale from a local source with an estimate of just £100-150 – the sort of sum that one of the limited edition reproductions of this figure might make.

Instead, with the painted mark Lenci Made in Italy, Torino, 28, it attracted a host of online and phone bidders before selling at £34,000 (plus 17.5% buyer’s premium) to a buyer on thesaleroom.com.

The price is thought to be a new record for Lenci. It was almost twice the £18,000 bid at Christie’s South Kensington in 2011 for another (restored) version of Il Grattacielo and bettered the £32,000 bid in the same rooms in 2006 for the 21in (53cm) figure of a coquettish nude in Egyptian headdress titled Abissinia.

Record Price at Boldon Auction Galleries

Lot 53

'Il Grattacielo’, A Lenci pottery figure by Abele Jacopi, circa 1930, modelled as a young lady with a compact and powder puff, wearing an orange bonnet and bow and polka dot black and white dress, standing on a skyscraper, painted mark, ‘Lenci Made in Italy, Torino, 28’, 44cm high.

After a heated bidding battle online, on the telephone and in the saleroom this fabulous example of 1930’s style and glamour sold for £34,000

A record price for Boldon Auction Galleries.

The lot sold in our 2nd October Antique and Interiors Sale

Gold, Gold, Gold

Lot 368 -390
A collection of full and half Sovereigns, gold proofs and Krugerrands sold for over £9,000
Antiques and Interiors Sale 2nd October 2019

Off They Went Trumpety Trump

Lot 46.
A pair of unusual Chinese elephant spill vases, 16cm length, 18cm high
Sold £1,100 Antiques and Interiors Sale 2nd October 2019

Oriental Beauty

Lot 8.
A double gourd Wucai vase, estimate £30 - £50 
Sold £280 Antiques and Interiors Sale 2nd October 2019

Lighting up East Boldon

Lot 29

A Monart table lamp, the mottled orange glass overlaid with green and brown glass and acid etched with a frieze of trees, bears label to base 'Monart Glass, Moncrieff Scotland, VII', original code P/23', pre war bronze fitting, no shade, 20cm high

Sold £1,300
Antique and Interiors Sale Wednesday 2nd October

Away in a Flash !!!!

Lot 144

A 1960's Flash Gordon children's play outfit 

Sold £170
Antique and Interiors Sale 2nd October 2019

Four Green Bottles .......

Lot 69.

A set of four 19th century apple green Chemist bottles with stoppers, 31cm high

Sold £800
Antique and Interiors Sale 2nd October 2019