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Article: Antiques&Auctions: Good quality antiques keep ticking over at Bristol Auction Rooms.(Features)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2002
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THE BRISTOL AUCTION ROOMS' 280-lot sale held in their Clifton rooms on November 5 saw some excellent results in all sections.
There was a strong clock section and dealers and collectors responded accordingly. Top price was a hefty pounds 13,000 paid for a large inlaid and carved mahogany quarter-chiming hall regulator circa 1900, which to many would probably seem completely `over the top' Victoriana, but it was a really superb mechanism keeping good time, possibly having been the `showroom' regulator of Pleasance & Harper when they were trading from 4 Wine Street, ...
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Article: George III furniture catches eyes; Bargains were to ...
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);
December 27, 2003 ;
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... ... were achieved. A George III French Hepplewhite ... 1780 sold for pounds 2,300, having ... catalogue, sold for pounds 1,900 and ... Christmas, a George III inlaid mahogany ... infill back, for pounds 1,200. A George III inlaid mahogany ...
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