JIM RAILTON

forthcoming sale at
La Sagesse School, Jesmond

Newcastle upon Tyne

Starting at 9.00am:
Saturday 9th August 2008

It is hoped to maintain a selling rate of at least 100 lots per hour.

Approximately 1000 lots of school and office furniture including desks, tables chairs and stools, antique furniture, musical and scientific instruments, ceramics, pictures, jewellery, books,collectors items, etc.

Items on view:
Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th August (10am to 7pm);

Administration and 24 hour answerphone: 01668 215323
email: office@jimrailton.com



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721A Dora Lunn Ravenscourt studio pottery jug. (5.5in) - This slip glaze jug is decorated with stylised flowers, with brown glazing to rim. It is impressed Ravenscourt. : £80-120
722A painted pitch pine three shelf whatnot. - : £40-60
723A pair of grey metal Russian microscopes. (2) - : £20-30
724An oak refectory table. (31.75in x 60in x 29.5in) - This has a rectangular top supported on chisel carved cushion rails with corner posts having dropped finials. It is raised on bolection foliate carved columns with splayed sledge feet bound by a rectangular moulded stretcher. It looks like an Ercol piece, circa 1960. The finish is reasonable, although there are a few white ring marks to the top. : £100-150
725Bronze, study of a naked boy and fish - piped for water. (19in) - : £80-120
726Four miscellaneous prints - French, Peggy Wickham, a Victorian family portrait and landscape sheepdog print. (4) - The sheepdog print is in a gilt frame and depicts sheep being rounded up by two dogs in a lake landscape. The print is signed and dated 1976, and it looks as if the signature is GW Brand? There is a further shepherd overlooking the stylised view. The Peggy Wickham print is titled 'A Day in the Country', after a scissor cut design. It is published by the Medici Society Ltd, and has original Edinburgh gallery framers label circa 1960. A bright colourful piece. The hand coloured French print is in an oak frame and is heavily foxed both on the mount and on the margin, but it is a nineteenth century print. It depicts two figures crossing a stream with dog beneath a waterfall. It measures 9.75in x 13.5in. The last piece is a Victorian study of a gentleman seated in his leather armchair in his study. It has a good quality oak frame with a burnished gilt egg and dart moulded slip which suggests circa 1880. It features a charcterful moustached serious looking gentleman by his books. It has slight iridescence to the actual monochrome print. The print itself is approximately 10in x 12in. : £20-30
727A set of sliding ladders, steps, etc. (A lot) - : £60-80
728A large Victorian copper boiling pan and cover, with tap. (17in) - : £80-120
729A large square diamond panel ring in 18k white gold. - This impressive piece has a central square panel set with nine princess cut diamonds. Bordering this is a frame consisting of sixteen alternating baguette and round cut diamonds. On each shoulder there is a further panel of four round cut diamonds in the centre, with borders of smaller round cut diamonds either side. All the diamonds are of good white colour and it is a nice piece of bling. : £600-800
730A Shelley jug and vase. (2) - These are both perfect with hand-painted brushwork decoration - both marked with Shelley panels. : £20-30
731An oak cupboard with four doors and brass knobs. - : £30-40
732A pair of large diamond solitaire earrings set in 18k white gold diamond mounts. (2) - The two diamond solitaires, a total of 2.4 carats are set into a rub-over bezel mount, with small round diamonds surrounding the solitaires. The large diamonds themselves are round brilliant cut, but both are quite heavily included and slightly off white in colour. A dramatic pair of earrings. : £1200-1500
733A brightly woven rectangular kilim having stylised trees with railway line borders and frieze with further trees on blue ground. (21in x 31.5in) - : £20-30
734A steel Longines gentlemans wristwatch; and a large silver 1930s hallmarked art deco watch. (2) - : £20-30
735A Victorian walnut corner cabinet. (23.25in x 55.25in) - This is a pretty little piece of late Victorian furniture of good quality. The corner back has a shelf framed by pierced corner bevelled mirror panels suported by similarly shaped pierced spandrels. The platform top is above a reeded frieze and has two open compartments. The top compartment has central finely turned spindle. The compartments all have shaped pierced fretwork cut spandrels and are supported on fluted stile feet. The back is original, with a bit of wear to the top, but the colours are good. There are a few ring marks to the shelves, and a bit of general scuffing. : £100-150
736E J Steele, pastel study of swans; and a Barbara Levy watercolour study of white lilies. (2) - : £30-40
737Oil on paper, laid down on board, shoulder length portrait of a lady and gentleman - holed. (15.5in x 20in) (2) - : £20-30
738A Regency rosewood mantel clock. (20.5in) - A Regency rosewood mantel clock surmounted by turned urn finial, with octagonal case and fretwork panel inlaid with foliate brass decoration, the enamelled dial with roman chapters lacking movement, the rectangular plinth base further decorated with brass inlaid panels of horses and flags, supported on turned feet. (20.5in) : £150-250
739A three tier folding mahogany cakestand. - : £20-30
740A gents gold and steel Rolex circular watch. - The dial is marked Rolex Oyster Perpetual and it has a gold Rolex winder and a back of steel which suggests it dates from the 1950s. : £200-300
741A large French Gund bear named Dylan. (32in) - This large bear has a shaggy coat with a tartan ribbon to his neck with brown stitch nose and brown and black eyes. He is a big bear with Gund label to the seam and paper label to the ear. He is in perfect condition. : £50-80
742A rectangular panelled top table on square tapering legs. - : £20-30
743A pair of Chelsea style porcelain figurines. (8.25in) (2) - These we suspect are Samson. The lady is wearing a green dress and painted with floral polychrome enamels, holding a harewith one hand, with a basket encrusted wth flowers. She is standing on a scrolled rococo style plinth decorated with gilding. The back has a gilt anchor mark. He is also holding a bird upside down, wearing green breeks and coat with floral and gilt decoration standing on similar plinth, with gilt anchor mark to the back. There is some damage to the encrustations and the flowers, and his hand has been broken and reglued at some stage. A nice quality pair. : £100-150
744A silver half hunter pocket watch in outer hammered leather and hallmarked silver case. - : £80-120
745A pair of nineteenth century Japanese vases on stands. (8.75in) (2) - This pair of vases has brass ball mounts to the rims, hung with tapering loop handles. They are similarly mounted on ormolu brass stands with pierced scrolled volute feet. The ormolu is very rubbed, but there are traces of gilding. The bases of the stands are impressed with foundry marks, but difficult to decipher. The vase bodies are ball form with hexagonal flared necks. They are enamelled in the satsuma style, with blossom foliage and gilding on grey ground. Each has two circular panels, one with purple and blue moonlit decoration, the other with two brightly coloured birds on a grey ground. Each of these two circular panels is framed by gilding. They are most unusual fine quality vases. Apart from crazing, they are in perfect condition. : £150-250
746A bow-fronted walnut compactum. (41.5in x 22in x 59in) - This has been a good quality piece, but it needs refinishing. The top is cross-banded, as are the doors, and it is quarter veneered with assisted burr walnut colour. The interior has drawers and shelves with hanging space. The bow fronted outline is supported on a shaped apron with stub cabriole legs. It has brass hinges. : £50-80
747F Robson, a set of four monochrome etchings - Chester, Edinburgh, York, etc. (4) - : £20-30
748A brown/grey Roneo Vickers four drawer filing cabinet. - : £10-20
749A Victorian panelled cupboard with drawers. - : £40-60
750A Royale brown and cream four drawer filing cabinet. - : £20-30
751A large hand-cut Brierley ruby glass bowl. - : £20-30
752A pine refectory table. (42in x 25.5in x 27.5in) - This small pine table has a rectangular plank top with trestle ends joined by rectangular pegged stretcher on sledge feet. It is a repro piece of pine in good solid condition. : £20-30
753A George III mahogany serving table. (35.75in x 26.5in x 29in) - A George III mahogany side table, with rectangular single piece top above a plain frieze supported on chamfered column legs with moulded corners. (35.75in x 26.5in x 29in) : £400-600
754An iron bench with wood slats, decorated with vines to castings. (50.75in) - : £40-60
755A Bentwood coatstand. - : £10-20
756A large aquamarine and diamond ring in 18k yellow gold. - This is a large emerald cut aquamarine stone, claw set between two large brilliant cut round diamonds in bezel settings. The aquamarine is clear and well cut and a nice light blue colour and the diamonds are clean and bright. A simple and elegant large ring. : £500-700
757A set of four fawn covered easy armchairs. - : £20-30
758A Maling Dovecote pattern circular plaque - restored. (11in) - This circular plaque is decorated in the Dovecote pattern with birds, dovecotes, hollyhocks, polychrome flowers and butterflies on a purple fishscale lustre ground with a gilded rim. The green glaze is in fact raised enamelling, framed by gilt brushwork borders. It has printed Maling mark and number 5454. It has been restored. : £80-120
759A soft-cased Geisha classical guitar. - : £30-40
760A framed tapestry panel with birds; and a crewel-work floral tapestry panel. (2) - : £20-30
761K S Fowler, pencil and watercolour, village street scene with figures, signed, mounted and framed; L Komovyay, watercolour landscape with two figures on path, signed, mounted and framed; and a Gerard Tunney pastel and watercolour coastal view, mounted and framed. (3) - : £40-60
762A quantity of miscellaneous stools with black and pale blue/green legs. - : £20-30
763A quantity of upholstered easy chairs. - : £30-50
764A massive late nineteenth century walnut overmantel mirror with cupboards, shelves and concave cornice. - : £200-300
765A reproduction pine kitchen table. (60in x 41.5in x 30.75in) - This is quite a substantial table, the rectangular top with tapering edge and rounded corners. It has a plain frieze raised on bulbous turned tapering legs. Colourwise, it is a bit yellowy/polyurethane, but could be stripped and repolished. It came from a house in Scotland. : £100-150
766A pair of continental porcelain relief moulded classical vases. (2) (8.5in) - These are of ovoid form, with bodies moulded in relief depicting continuous classical scenes with landscapes and figures hand-painted in polychrome, bordered by gilt scrolled pelmets. The landscapes don't appear to be signed, but depict ladies about their toilet in tree landscape with classical buildings. The shoulders of the vases are further embossed with foliate scrolling and are hand-painted in polychrome and gilding, with further gilt decoration to rims. Beneath the friezes, the bases of the vases have a further border of scrolling with masks and scrolled cartouche panels. The foot of both vases has a leaf moulded band with alternating green and brick red decoration on a yellow ground. The bases are indented and one of them is impressed with numbers. Both appear to be perfect, with minor rubbing to the gilding on the neck. Although moulded as a pair, they do have different decoration. : £150-250
767A three channel diamond set twist band in 10k gold. - This classic ring features three interlocking twists of channel set round diamonds in yellow gold. : £150-250
768A reproduction mahogany cabinet. (34in x 17.75in x 15in) - This is not particularly old with brass plate handles. It is reasonable good quality with satinwood cross banding framed by boxwood and ebony stringing. It has a rectangular top above a fall front drawer supported on a plinth, above a shaped apron and raised on stub cabriole legs. Of no great age. : £20-30
769A brown linen upholstered office chair. - : £5-10
770A 3M overhead projector. - : £20-30
771A heavy Edwardian walnut standard lamp. (62in) - This tapering column shows fine turning. There are brass mounts ready to take a bayonet fitting. The main shaft is supported on a turned baluster column above a circular stepped base which is on three block feet. A good quality standard lamp, which could do with a bit of re-waxing and polishing. : £20-30