A SUCCESSFUL sale day at Devon and Cornwall Auction Rooms at Broadwoodwidger, saw more than 100 internet bidders, many telephone and commission bids and a room full of potential buyers in competition for the 1,000 lots.  

In the miscellaneous and metalwork section an African Makonde carving of natives made £150, a rusty iron collar, possibly once around the neck of a prize bull, made £360, a telescope £70, a nickel plated footballer car mascot £120, a 19th C. medical box £220, and a Tekke Turkoman rug £80.

Topping the ceramics section were two fine examples of Royal Worcester fruit vases (pictured) painted by D Fuller, which sold to a Cornish collector in the room for £3,000 (est. £3,000-£3,500) and £3,600 (est. £3,000–£3,500) much to the chagrin of a telephone bidder!

Other good prices included £600 and £700 respectively for a Moorcroft 'Willow' pattern pot and a pair of early MacIntyre vases. A modern 'Tigris' vase found a new home for £975. A collection of early Lladro figures came in at a handy total of almost £1,400.

Two Lalique plates topped the glass section. An Actinia and an Aster plate each made £340 to the same internet buyer.

Kurt Jackson found favour with three mixed media studies in the picture section. 'A Scilly Evening Tide', 'Leaving Plymouth' and 'View from Ding Dong' sold for £420, £550 and £240 respectively to the same South Devon collector. The sum of £700 (est. £400-£600) was paid for a miniature of a young man by Julia Dagoty painted in 1832, and an oval portrait of Napoleon made an expected £200. Tripling the estimate, a local collector secured a portrait miniature of a young girl wearing a pretty bonnet for £440.

Bronzes were popular and studies of animals in particular. A running cheetah sold for £110, a frog on a lily pad £100, a brown bear £90, a dancing girl with a hoop £120 and a pair of late 19thC. Ormolu mounted candlesticks £220.

In the clock section, a French-style miniature carriage clock sold on target for £60 as did a French provincial eight-day bell-strike long case clock for £300. Ever popular Omegas continue to sell well, as did a boxed gent's Seamaster de Ville 18ct gold wristwatch, which came with the original 1969 guarantee and receipt, making an expected £440.

In the furniture section, a Victorian mahogany pedestal sideboard made £240, a pair of Edwardian inlaid armchairs went for £100, an antique wainscot chair with later alterations sold for £320 and a finely proportioned antique pine dresser, which had lain for several years in a barn and had been nibbled by mice, nevertheless found favour at £400.