Fundraising Update

SPONSER MONEY UPDATE

Great North Run final total is £727!!!!!

Raised for Disability North

Thank you once again for the support

Entries for December 5th Fine Art & Antique Sale

Consigned for Sale - Lot 34
A pair of Art Nouveau WMF pewter vases, with glass liners, cast in relief with a maiden amongst sinuous flower stems (stamped on the underside of the rim).  Height 36cm  Estimate £100 - £150

Entries are still being accepted for our Fine Art & Antique Sale on Wednesday 5th December.

The sale starts at 9am with viewing on Saturday 1st December 10am - 1pm, Tuesday 4th December 2pm - 6pm and on the morning of the sale from 9am.

The sale will be live on the internet (via the-saleroom.com - registration is simple and free); so if you cannot attend the auction you can listen live on the web.

If you have anything to enter for the sale please call us 0191 537 2630, email boldon@btconnect.com or pop in to the saleroom.

We look forward to seeing you.

Great North Run 2012

Giles completed the Great North Run 2012 on Sunday 16th September in a time of 2 hours 21 minutes and 42 seconds and has raised over £647 for Disability North.

Thank you to everyone who supported Giles and sponsored him in running this half marathon.

He is now having a rest before his next challenge!!

Next Fine Art & Antique Sale

We are currently putting the finishing touches to our next Fine Art & Antique Sale to be held on Wednesday 26th September.

Among the lots included in this sale is this stunning platinum solitaire diamond ring, 4.40 carat. 
Estimate £15,000 - £20,000


Lot 322

Our catalogue will be on-line from Wednesday 19th September.

Entries Accepted for our next Fine Art & Antique Auction

It's not too late!

Entries are still being accepted for our Fine Art & Antique Sale on Wednesday 26th September.

We will be selling English and Continental Ceramics and Works of Art, Collectables, Cigarette Cards, Jewellery, Silver and Silver-Plate, Books, Carpets and Rugs, Oils, Watercolours and Prints, Continental and English Furniture.

All valuations for sale are free of charge and we display our Fine Art & Antique Sale Catalogues with the Antiques Trade Gazette at www.antiquestradegazette.com, Invaluable at www.invaluable.com and with UKauctioneers at www.ukauctioneers.com .  In addition we offer an online bidding service for these sales via the-saleroom.com for bidders who cannot attend the sale.  Bidders can access the entire sale in real time and bid in real time.  This ensures that our Fine Art & Antique Sales reach a truly international market place.

If you have any items you would like to enter for possible sale please call Giles or Tom 0191 537 2630, email boldon@btconnect.com or call in to Boldon Auction Galleries, 24a Front Street, East Boldon, NE36 0SJ.

We look forward to doing business with you.

PDF Calendar

Did you know that you can download a PDF Calendar giving you all our Auction Dates, Viewing Times, Accepting Entries Days and other information to keep you up to date with everything happening at Boldon Auction Galleries in one handy calendar?

All you have to do is to go onto the Auction Dates tab on our home page and click on Auction Dates at the bottom of the page.  Then click on the Click Here button.

It's as simple as that!

We hope you find the calendars useful; we update them fortnightly so you will never miss an Auction!

Summer Sale Highlights

Our summer sale held on Wednesday 13th July was a huge success with many top lots.

Lot 32, A Burmantofts Faience Anglo Persian vase by Louis Kramer decorated with fish did not actually sell during the auction itself but quickly became the subject of a fiercely contested bidding battle after the sale, finishing with a selling price of £3400 which comfortably exceeded its upper estimate.

Lot 45 and 46 were real gems - two pairs of early twentieth century Art Nouveau ceramic tiles - which attracted a huge amount of interest on the internet and phones before selling in the room for £1000 and £1450 each.

Model enthusiasts were rewarded with two treasures, Lot 99, a part scratch built 7 1/4 inch gauge LNER Class B1 locomotive with detailed drawings which sold for £2100

and Lot 166, a shipyard model of the Silver Elm which sold for £3300.

A rare Beckwith of London pneumatic air rifle with cylindrical barrel and leather clad stock, complete with its pump, sold well at £1550

and Lot 109, a German Luftwaffe officer's dagger fetched £300.

We had a large collection of musical instruments in this auction with 15 violins, 2 cellos - one of which sold for £1500, a banjo, a squeeze box

and a Steinway piano which sold for £2400.

A silver four piece tea service fetched £610

and Lot 315, a gentleman's Rolex Oyster Perpetual "Date Just" chronometer sold for £1000, showing that these classic items are still selling well at auction.

We had some interesting Masonic items in the sale including Lot 426, a silver Masonic Lodge presentation set which reach £1550

and Lot 139, a collection bowl, gavels and ceremonial swords which sold for £150.

There was an eclectic range of artwork with pieces such as Lot 474, a half portrait of a lady attributed to Alan Lowndes which sold for £600 contrasting sharply with the ultra-modern Lucie Bennett Red Felt Tip Girl which sold for £490.

Lot 528 was an example of good quality early twentieth century furniture, an oak triple door wardrobe with carved acorns, that sold for £800;

and lot 562 was an ornate 20th century walnut Italian decorative centre table with acanthus carved edge, with heavily carved winged female supports with lion paw feet and a heavily pierced carved stretcher, the legs each ending in an open mouthed lion.  It generated a good amount of interest and sold for £1700.

We are now accepting entries for our next Fine Art and Antique Auction to be held on Wednesday 26th September 2012.

Collector's £8,000 win on the cards

THE subject matter ranges from Girls of Many Lands and Notable MPs to Gems of Belgian Architecture and Holiday Haunts by the Sea.

One man’s lifetime collection of 30,000 cigarette cards were sold yesterday at Boldon Auction Galleries in South Tyneside.
The 148 albums and 14 assorted lots of cards date from the 1920s onwards and came from a house in Hartlepool.

The collection, which sold for £8,000, includes popular runs of footballers, cricketers, swimmers, boxers, rugby players and race horses, turf personalities, angling, cycling, film stars, radio celebrities, musical celebrities, girls from the shows, famous beauties, and Kings and Queens.

Aeroplanes, pilots and airports, railway engines, railway equipment, celebrated ships, mining, engineering wonders, fire fighting appliances and famous inventors also figure.

Military subjects include military motors, colonial and Indian army badges, military uniforms of the British Empire, military mottos, modern armaments, life aboard a Man of War, the Great War series, Army corps and divisional signals, the history of naval dress and soldiers of the King.

The natural world is covered by aviary and cage birds, dogs, wild animals of the world, poultry, British livestock, wonders of the sea, flower culture in pots, alpine flowers, British butterflies, curious beasts and game birds and wild fowl.

Offbeat subjects include Alice in Wonderland, wireless telephony, household hints, arms of public schools, garden life, flags of the League of Nations, physical culture, polar exploration, zoo studies, the bridges of Britain, shrines of Britain, and fortune telling.

Giles Hodges, who runs Boldon Auction Galleries, said: “It is a complete and outstanding collection and a real cross section of subjects.

“Everything is there. It shows what collecting is all about.”

One of the football cards shows Inverness-born Tom McDonald, who signed for Newcastle United from Rangers for £2,000 in 1921.

In 10 years at Newcastle, the inside forward made 367 appearances and scored 103 goals, and was a key player in United’s FA Cup and League title wins in 1924 and 1927.

During these glory seasons he formed a potent striking partnerships with United star forwards Hughie Gallacher and Stan Seymour.

After he retired from the game McDonald worked for United as a club steward with responsibility for the press box.

Also in the sale were 17 albums of black and white photographs of steam locomotives taken by a Sunderland train spotter, which sold for £260.

A linen table cloth signed by the Sunderland 1973 FA Cup final squad, including manager Bob Stokoe and Arthur Cox, plus the programme from the Wembley game, when Sunderland beat Leeds 1-0, fetched £150.

by Tony Henderson, The Journal, Thursday 14th June 2012.

Sale Highlights

Sale highlights from our Fine Art and Antique Sale on Wednesday 7th March 2012.

The most spectacular performer in our spring sale was Lot 28, a small Lalique green satin glass frog seated in a shallow circular bowl which fetched an impressive £14500! Auctioneer Giles Hodges said “Ribbit! Ribbit!”

Lot 54 was another rare item, an early 17th century lantern clock which hadn’t been altered like many of its type so was even more appealing to the buyers.

It sold for £6500 to a telephone bidder.

Lot 55, a pair of Fairyland Lustre vases by Daisy Makeig Jones, also stirred up a flurry of interest from the bidders before selling for £3600.

Building on our recent successful sales of musical instruments, this sale had a couple of guitars that sold very well: A Gretsch 6120AM which fetched £1100, and an acoustic guitar by Jose Ramirez which sold for £1400.

Jewellery and watches were popular, with Lot 293, a platinum radiant cut diamond solitaire ring, selling for £11000,

Lot 314 a Cartier gentleman’s watch selling for £640, Lot 353 a gentleman’s gold Rolex watch selling for £520 and Lot 389 a gentleman’s Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch selling for £650.

One particularly charming lot was The Good Child’s Cabinet, a miniature library of 15 children’s toy books with titles such as “Fairy Tales of Mother Goose” and “A History of Flowers”.

The cabinet generated a large amount of interest from telephone and internet bidders before selling in the room for £2700.

Lot 553, a set of three watercolours of Valetta by Carmello Bonello proved popular, selling for £850, and Lot 539, Barnaby Rudge and the Raven by William Hunt, sold for £420.

Furniture went well, with local favourite, Robert “Mouseman” Thompson items fetching £1300 for a dining table, £2100 for a sideboard and £2400 for a set of four chairs,

while Lot 591, a 19th century camphorwood campaign chest, sold for £1000,

and Lot 606, an oak longcase clock with 8 day movement by Cuthbert Darnton, sold for £2200.

The most interesting local items were a collection Durham Quilts including one that sold for £300.

We are now accepting entries for our next Antique & Fine Art Sale on 13th June.

Heroic Day at Boldon Auction Galleries

We had a heroic day at Boldon Auction Galleries today when 28 lots of super hero comics and action figures sold for out of this world prices, far exceeding auctioneer Giles Hodges' expectations.

If you have any similar collector's items why not bring them along to our next Open Valuation Day on Friday 20th April between 10-12 and 2-4 and see how well they sell!