Article: Antiques&Auctions: Good quality antiques keep ticking over at Bristol Auction Rooms.(Features)

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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