Antiques Auctions catalogue review

Two glossy auction catalogues plopped through my letter box this morning. Full colour glossy things for the sort of fine art auction I dont normally bother with ( not much chance of a real bargain here). These have been sent to me by midlands auctioneers in hopes of tempting me to their sales ( not much chance of that either ).

Why dont Gildings and Lock & England just e.mail me with a link to their on-line catalogues? I will take a look if I am interested and it will save you the cost of printing and posting and me the trouble of recycling your publicity.

Anyway, despite my concern over the environmental waste to these glossies I did take a look and found one or two pretties I would buy for myself for keeps if only funds permitted. What would I like? Well Gildings ( Market Harborough)are offering two wonderful seventeenth century carved wooden angels each about 12 inches high. The catalogue estimate (lot 268) are £100 to £150 but I think that is just to draw us in. Have you seen these beautiful ladies. OK, just for fun I may leave a bid of double their top estimate but there is no way they are going to sell at that lowly price.
Lot 72 is a Minton owl teapot dating from 1884 and glazed in a mustard yellow majolica colour, this could have a home my art pottery owl collection Estimated £200 to £300 well not this month I need to buy more stock. The Gildings auction is on September 29 only one day after my birthday so those angels may yet come home with me should my relatives be unusually generous this year.

Lock and England in leamington spa have the usual selection of brown furniture , silver tableware and miscellaneous painting. I did spot a few piece of Newlyn copper on page 42 and for Victorian dump enthusiasts a rare dump with an internal sulphide in the shape of a dog ( est £80 to £120). This aucion is on September 24th

Any one attending either of these aucitons? If so do drop in a comment and let us know how these particular items went,