AUCTION ACTION.Byline: DONALD MACGILLIVRAY Sir Donald Charles MacGillivray was the last Colonial Administrator to serve in Malaya. He was the British High Commissioner in Malaya and also the Governor of Straits Settlements. IN America postcard collectors are known as deltiologists. In Europe they're called cartologists. But no matter where they live, they will have a chance to bid on thousands of cards at the Dreweatt Neate auction, in Newbury, Berkshire Coordinates: Newbury is a civil parish and the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in England. It is situated on the River Kennet and the Kennet and Avon Canal, and has a town centre containing many 17th century buildings. , this Tuesday. Even wannabe deltiologists and cartologists, looking to get into the game, can spend about pounds 65 for a mixed batch. In the beginners' bundle is a card featuring an unknown football team from the 1920s... a 1910 scene from Rotten Row
Rotten Row is a broad track running along the south side of Hyde Park in London, leading from Hyde Park Corner to the west. in London's Hyde Park Hyde Park, park, London, England Hyde Park, 615 acres (249 hectares) in Westminster borough, London, England. Once the manor of Hyde, a part of the old Westminster Abbey property, it became a deer park under Henry VIII. ... a lovers' card, sent in 1905, from Nellie to a Miss Upson, Ipswich, with the plea, "Could you be true to eyes of blue?" In the same pile comes a pre-World War One postcard with a picture of a de Havilland biplane biplane, aircraft, typically of early design, having two sets of wings fixed at different levels, especially in a vertical stack with the fuselage included between them. See airplane. along with 1,496 more cards. Tel: 01635-553 553. BONHAMS Bonhams is a privately owned British auction house founded in 1793. It is the third largest auctioneer after Sotheby's and Christie's, and conducts around 700 auctions per year. The firm has London salerooms in New Bond Street and Knightsbridge. bountifully big book bonanza is set for this Tuesday. Among the exciting lots, with an estimate of pounds 350, is the 1824 account of Jacob Decastro's life in the circus. Decastro is the man blamed by circus historians for inventing horse-riding acts. Another volume, penned in 1933 by one of the great British music hall performers, Sir George Robey, talks about his life on the stage. This first edition, signed by the author, is valued about pounds 150. Robey, famous for his bowler hat, black coat and hooked cane, first hit the boards in 1891. He was knighted in 1954, the year he died. Tel: 020 7393 3900. EVER fancied owning a piece of art that once lined the walls of a prestigious financial institution? Well, you're in luck. Direct from the Flemings investment bank comes 149 Scottish paintings for sale at Christie's, March 7, in London. A dramatic landscape by Scottish artist John Houston, showing strong blue mountains sitting quietly under a spectacular yellow sky, is expected to fetch pounds 2,000. A lovely still life by Aberdeen-born Alberto Morocco, called Flowers in a white jug, is estimated between pounds 5,000 and pounds 8,000. Paintings from other well-known Scottish artists such as Sir James Lawton Wingate Sir James Lawton Wingate (b Kelvinhaugh, Glasgow, Scotland, 1846 - d Edinburgh, 22 April 1924) was a leading Scottish painter of the late nineteenth century. He worked as a commercial clerk, taking drawing lessons in the early morning. , James McBey and Sir William McTaggart are also on the block. Tel: 020 7581 7611. |
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