-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.