Antique Furniture & Collectors’ Items

The first Friday of every month sees a specialist auction of Antiques and Collectables at the Bedford Auction Centre. A range of Antique Furniture, Pictures, Ceramics & Glass, Silver, Metalware, Boxes and Caddies, Militaria and other collector ’s items are offered for sale.

Catalogue includes but not limited to -

• A 19th century mahogany, satinwood banded and shell marquetry table cabinet, the lift lid
• A 19th century and later mahogany corner cabinet, the top door with astragal-type glazing
• A Chinese Export low rectangular table with fretwork frieze, 88 x 49 x 35 cm
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• A pair of Aesthetic Movement bamboo screens, each mounted with needleworks including 'Eastern Old'
• A late 19th/early 20th century mahogany coin collector's cabinet, interior with twelve shallow drawers
• A 19th century kingwood and marquetry sewing box, 20 x 20 x 9 cm, together with a rosewood caddy (2)
• A group of Indian, Kashmiri, lacquer work containers (5)
• A pair of Victorian walnut sliding bookends decorated in the Gothic Revival manner
• Emmanuel Villanis (1858-1914), 'Cendrillon', a bronze bust modelled as a female wearing a headscarf
• After Jean Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875), 'Why Born Enslaved!', reproduction bust by 'Moulage'
• A polychrome figural group modelled as Madonna and Child, signed G. Tosi, h. 43 cm
• A silvered cast metal figure modelled as a tiger, in the Japanese style, w. 31 cm
• After Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), 'Les Peres de Ceglise', circular lacquered panel
• A group of mother-of-pearl gaming counters (Qty)
• A lead relief plaque depicting the Last Supper, mounted to a panel, 12.5 x 19 cm
• A pair of yellow mirrored 'witches balls', di. 14.5 cm
• A group of printing equipment including a Lion 'Menucator' No. 2, 'The Anchor' copying press, four
• A late 19th century mahogany extending dining table with three fitted leaves, on turned and reeded legs
• After Jef Lambeaux (1852-1908), a brown-patinated bronze figure of imposing form
• A cased Meerschaum-type and amber pipe with a silver mount together with another similar pipe (2)
• A group of four Hohner and Koch harmonicas including Educator I, Apollo and Sonnyboy (4)
• A cased 15ct gold mounted cheroot holder together with four further cheroot holders and an empty case
• A hardstone jade-type bottle and cover of urn form, h. 14 cm
• A George VI brass bell, with crown cipher, h. 26 cm, di. 23 cm
• A magic lantern together with an extensive collection of glass slides relating to Comical Cats &
• A late 19th century cylinder music box with three graduated bells, playing on twelve airs
• An early 20th century tabletop barograph contained in a mahogany and two-glass case, 18 x 10 x 14 cm
• A Victorian figured walnut tabletop stereographic viewer, 25 x 28 x 32 cm
• A Victorian zoetrope, circa 1880, with a paper label for 'Wheel of Life, Secured by Royal Letters'
• A 19th century English concertina by Fisher of London with five-fold bellows, the rosewood body
• A late 19th century concertina with forty-eight buttons and four-fold bellows
• A 19th century French mantle clock, the movement by Le Roy et fils and striking on a bell
• A George III japanned table or bracket clock by James Smith of London, circa 1775
• A Continental bracket clock, the 18th century two-train movement striking on two bells
• A late 19th century French mantle clock, the porcelain dial within a gilt figural case