The saleroom looks to be strong again for the coming Vintage & Collectables sale on Monday 12th October 2009. We have a varied selection of furniture including a Gothic Revival oak corner pew. It is an interesting piece and would make the ideal accompaniment to a kitchen dining table in a period environment.

Also in our saleroom this week with have several unusual items including vintage tin advertising signs in particular a 1950s “Brook Bond Tea is good tea” example. Though slightly damaged to the top right corner, it is definitely of the period, set with black bold type writing on an orange background. For all you tin sign lovers out there we have a rare Bovril sign titled “Alas! My poor brother”, underneath which, “Makes Contented Cooks” is written in bold type. Depicted is a long horn bull alongside a bottle of Bovril. This will be coming up in our Fine Art sale on Wednesday 18th November 2009.

For those of you more interested in the weird and wonderful we have a cased selection of surgical tools including those used by midwives. It is in excellent condition with some painful looking tools, the perfect gift for this Halloween. 

Also coming up in the sale is a personal favourite of mine; an array of Wedgwood Limited Edition Clarice Cliff china comprising of plates, coffee cups, tea sets and so much more. These lots are the ideal gift for those Art Deco lovers out there, which want period style china for their collection.

-By Matthew Looker

Since I began at Boningtons in December 2008, the year has been tremendously exciting and rewarding. From starting out with the Fine Jewels & Objects de Vertu Sale in December 2008, working at Boningtons has been tremendously interesting, challenging and enlightening. Now with almost a whole year gone by I feel I am beginning to fully understand the workings of an auction house. I would like to say meeting and conversing with all the clients on the front counter has been particularly enjoyable and so many thanks to all of them.

So far I have witnessed thousands of items go under the gavel and with the recent success of another fortnightly Vintage & Collectable Sale on the 14th September, seeing items like a William IV rosewood tea table fetching £320 and an A.J.W Benson brass mantel clock fetching £280, I’m sure there will be many more sales like this one to come. We at Boningtons are now preparing for the November specialist sales including the Fine Art & Antiques Sale and the Toy Sale.

With these sales rapidly approaching, we are now receiving more calls from clients wanting to consign a range of items to the Toy Sale from the very popular 0-gauge Hornby trains and track, dolls houses and tin plate toys to the weird & wonderful including a late-20th century “Dart Ball”… yes… “Dart Ball” a dartboard with snooker ball shaped targets. The Fine Art Sale is also looking promising with a large range of original oils and watercolours, a mahogany chaise lounge with cream upholstery and a full-length mahogany swing mirror with beautiful rope twist supports.

Our next Vintage & Collectables Sale will be on Monday 28th September 2009 and I hope to see you all there.