Boldon Auction Galleries: February 2021

Friday, 26 February 2021

Driving into Summer

Lot 1 in our 10th February Antique Interiors and General Sale.

A Ford Focus Titanium 100, petrol, 1.6cc, registered 08/09/2009, Mileage 33,823.

Sold for £1700

Like music to our ears

Several lots of good quality audio equipment was sold in our 24th February Antique, Interiors and General Sale. Lot 90 A Marantz SA-1451 CD player sold for £600

Lockdown viewing material at Boldon Auctions!

Lot 77 Four boxes of DVDs

Sold in our 24th February Antique, Interiors and General Sale for £420

Relax, take it easy at Boldon Auction Galleries

Lot 339 Oxblood leather Chesterfield wing back armchair

Sold in our 24th February Antique, Interiors and General Sale for £340

Thursday, 25 February 2021

Glad Tidings at Boldon Auctions

Lot 16 Royal Doulton 'Glad Tidings'

Sold for £220 in our 24th February Antique, Interiors and General Sale

Boldon Auction Galleries are pleased to spread their own glad tidings as the Governments recent announcement of a four step road map out of lockdown means we are able to allow customers back onto the premises from 12th April. Customers will be able to book valuation appointments and spaces to attend the sale as well as being able to attend our regular open valuation sessions and viewing days. We are looking forward to seeing our existing and new customers in our Covid friendly saleroom.

The pen is mightier than the sword - Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Lot 188 pictured above sold in our 24th February Antique, Interiors and General Sale for £2200

Considered the gold standard of fountain pens prior to WWII the L.E Waterman Pen Company was founded by Lewis Edson Waterman in 1888. The need for a reliable writing pen drew many customers to the cigar shop that Waterman was selling from in Fulton Street New York, causing him to often sell out of the pens he made.

Waterman designed and created his pen at his brothers farm from a whittled down wooden wheel spoke. The invention was patented by Waterman in 1884, who then went on to sell around 5,000 pens a year, increasing to up to 1000 pens per day by the time he passed away in 1901. However, the pen company continued to maintain its prosperity and designed and manufactured the first rivet clip pen cap to allow pens to be carried easily and safely the correct way up in a pocket in 1905. After the breakthrough rivet clip Watermans continued their climb to pen making history in 1907 by creating the first ‘safety’ fountain pen that could be carried in any position.

The historical writing instruments were respected so much that the Treaty of Versailles was signed in a solid gold Waterman pen by Lloyd George, the Prime Minister of England and on his record-breaking transatlantic flight Lindy even carried a Waterman.

The Waterman pens continued to grow, and the company had many of its best years in the late teens and 1920s when they developed their 52s ripple series with pens resembling exotic woods in addition to the usual black with filigree gold and silver tips.

Sadly, the traditional pens manufactured by the Waterman company became overlooked by the more innovative designs of its competitors and the company seen a decline in sales. Watermans went on to make the Lady Patricia pen which was both as expensive as it was beautiful, but the cost of the pen added to the decline in sales. With one last magnificent design the Waterman company manufactured the first transparent pen ‘The Hundred Year Pen’ in 1939, which are now highly collectable. The company, however, did not succeed in lasting beyond a decade after the Hundred Year pen was made.

Friday, 19 February 2021

Quack Quack

Lot 39
This terrific Decoy Duck is for Auction on Wednesday 24th February from 10am