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IMPRESSIVE: A “statement” four poster bed

Furniture with a flourish at antiques sale
A FINE Victorian Tunbridge Ware occasional table is one of the attractive lots in the final antiques sale of the year at Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s Taunton saleroom.

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Winifred Nicholson painting makes £60,000 at auction

BRIGGS BREAKOUT: The prison log book which shows the exact moment Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs went on the run for 36 years is up for sale with East Bristol Auctions’ on November 15. Picture: SWNS

Great Train Robbery memorabilia to be auctioned

RARE: Tax discs hit the mark.

There’s cash in supposed “trash”

ON DISPLAY: Two glazed cartridge display boards..

ANTIQUES Plenty to celebrate at bi annual sporting sale

BEAUTIFUL: Japanese gilt metal box bought for Â£3,620 at Greenslade Taylor Hunt.

Bedside trinket wows at antique auction

SPECTACULAR NECKLACE: This early mid 20th Century platinum and diamond riviere necklace was bought for £91,000 at Greenslade Taylor Hunt

Spectacular necklace wows at antiques sale

CONVICT: Outlaw Martin Cash

Collectors sale offers glimpse of history

CHESS: One of the medieval chess pieces, missing for 200 years from a famous set, due to fetch up to £1 million at auction - having been bought for £5 in 1964! Picture: SWNS

Missing Lewis Chessman bought for £5 could be worth £1m

SLICE OF HISTORY: Arabian Janbiya dagger with bone handle (estimate: £8,000-10,000) and A horn-handled dagger by William Lund (estimate: £6,000-8,000) belonging to T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). Picture: SWNS

Personal items given by Lawrence of Arabia to his landlady's son to be auctioned

LATE VICTORIAN: Pitch pine “baker’s” table

Furniture takes centre stage at Greenslade Taylor Hunt antiques sale

KNIGHTS SOLD: This superb single vendor collection of silver Teutonic knights collectively sold for £8,450

From Taunton house call to New York buyer

AUCTION: Remarkable collection of vintage Louis Vuitton luggage to be sold by Lawrences of Crewkerne

Travel in style with an original Louis Vuitton

DETAILED: German silver model of Teutonic knight in armour from a single owner private collection

Single owner collection of silver knights

AS DEAD AS: A rare dodo skeleton worth half a million pounds is to go up for auction next month.The last widely accepted sighting of a dodo was in 1662. Picture: SWNS

Dodo and ichthyosaur skeletons to go under the hammer

INTERNATIONA: A Belgium bidder bought this oil on canvas by Arthur Trevor Haddon, Arab horsemen before a gateway at Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s April sale. The next sale is on Thursday, May 2.

Get in the picture at Greenslade Taylor Hunt

SPORTING LEGEND: This New Hall pottery jug circa 1930 featuring an image of Jack Hobbs aka “The Master” stepping out to bat featured in Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s Spring Sporting Sale. Its Autumn counterpart takes place on Thursday,

Sporting sale attracts eager field

SOUGHT-AFTER: Dunhill `Aquarium` table lighter is guided at £2,000-3,000.

Lawrences Auctioneers prepare for 2200 lot sale

UNUSUAL: An exceptionally fine Victorian Tunbridge ware workbox with fitted interior

Fine Victorian Tunbridge ware workbox to go under the hammer

CAR-BYN: A computer mock up of how the number plate COR87N could look on a Trabant. Picture: SWNS

DVLA are auctioning off COR87N - The perfect registration plate for Jeremy Corbyn

SATIRICAL: Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis at the Prop Store head office near Rickmansworth. Photo: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Spitting Image puppet of Margaret Thatcher up for auction

NOSTALGIC: Eric Bottomley, G.R.A. (British, B.1948), 'Golden days, Beckenham Junction', colour print, limited edition 32/850, signed in pencil lower right

Taunton auctioneers leading the way with more antique sales

AUCTION BATTLE: Life size suits of armour sold at Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s December antiques sale

Auctioneers all set for January sale

RARE: A mid-Victorian carved nautilus shell referencing William Preston, High Sheriff of the County Palatine of Lancaster, with images of the Duke of Wellington, to one side, and St. George slaying the dragon, to the other sold for £865

Cards top of the pile at collectors’ sale

CHAMPION: Bartonwood Zeber Marion 52nd

Three sisters top festive cracker to average £2,520

SHOCK SALE: An electric shock machine from the Dr J Patrick Wilson collection of scientific and medical instruments will be sold in an antiques and collectors auction, on December 12 to 17

Spinal zap - 19th century electric shock machine to be auctioned

AUCTION: ‘Mouseman’ monks chairs to be sold

‘Mouseman’ creeps back to Crewkerne again

JADE IN DEMAND: Chinese carved hardwood box with jade lid was contested by two phone bidders

Style and sparkle at successful sale

BEAUTIFUL: Tour de force of craftsmanship - Royal Worcester reticulated teapot in the manner of George Owen will be one of the stars of Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s antiques sale on Thursday, November 1. It is on view today (Saturday)

Beautiful Royal Worcester teapot to go under the hammer

INTRIGUING ARCHIVE: Lawrences Auctioneer Simon Jones with the Bernard Leach letters

Bernard Leach collection purchased by museum

FINE: This Aynsley solitaire tea service was bought for £1,360

Family fortunes revealed at antiques sale

PICTURESQUE: “Canterbury Meadows” by Thomas Sidney Cooper has a pre-sale estimate of £3,000-£3,500

Get in the picture at GTH

THE CALVALRY: A brace of percussion cavalry pistols were bought by an online bidder at Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s September collectors’ sale

Diversity is the name of the game at sale

SEW: This large selection of sewing accessories has a pre-sale estimate of £100-£120.

September sales on view

LUXURY: This sofa and two armchairs form a Bergere suite bought from an estate sale at Brancepepth Castle. It goes under the hammer at Greenslade Taylor Hunt on Thursday, September 6.

Smart suite among pick of furniture

MOON WALK: A replica moon boot signed by the Apollo-16 astronaut Charlie Duke. Picture SWNS

LOTS IN SPACE: Out of this world items to be auctioned

TOP SELLING PAINTING: Unsigned picture of Aurangzebs Mosque and River Ganges Waterfront, Varansi. The 19th Century Indian School painting was bought for £2,415 at Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s monthly sale

Variety rules at August antiques sale

POPULAR: From a selection of Harry Frier watercolours

Plenty to interest at monthly sale

BUCOLIC SCENE: The Cross Keys Inn from the East at Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, which features in Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s next sale on Thursday, August 2

Focus on Harry Frier

DETAILED: Portrait miniature depicting children of the 5th Earl of Carlisle

Just deserts for a spoon - and a snail makes a fast finish

FINE ROLEX: This Rolex is brought to the market for the first time in 40 years

Watch out for exemplary prices

SHOW CALF: "Churchvale Solomon Rachel" consigned by Richard Thomas and family from Carmarthen

Spotlight Shines on Show Style Solomon from Churchvale at 6300gns

ORIENTAL: A circular Chinese bronze censer..

Chinese artefacts go under the hammer

LUXURY: The ex-Bernie Ecclestone Ferrari 456 GTA being sold by Charterhouse on Sunday, July 15, £48,000-52,000

Bernie Ecclestone’s Ferrari at auction

SILVER ROLLS: The 1951 Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn being sold in the Charterhouse auction of classic & vintage cars on Sunday, July 15, £34,000-38,000

A Rolls-Royce fit for royalty

TOP OF THE POPS: Beatles memorabilia with a Taunton connection was bought for £4,450 at Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s recent collectors’ sale

Nostalgia tops the charts at quarterly collectors’ sale

CLASSIC: 1969 Jaguar E-Type Series II roadster going under the Charterhouse hammer £80,000-90,000

What type are you?

TOP SELLERS: A graduated row of amber beads and a small oak six plank coffer.

Two tie for top billing at June sale

CRAFTED: ‘Mouseman’ dining chairs with the distinctive carved mouse ‘signature’

‘Mouseman’ returns to Crewkerne at Lawrences auction

LOCAL CONNECTION: Memorabilia relating to the Fab Four – The Beatles – goes under the hammer at Greenslade Taylor Hunt tomorrow (Friday)

Beatlemania returns to Taunton!

Curtains draw big bids at 1300-lot auction

Curtains draw big bids at 1300-lot auction

BOTANY: A collection of fifty-two cards explaining about botany, which sold for £500

Collection of books attract the bidders in Tamlyns auction

SOLD: Massey Ferguson machinery featured in the successful machinery sale

Another machinery sale of national importance brings fierce competition

ON TRACK: Hornby Dublo locomotive which will feature in Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s next collectors sale on Friday, June 8

Auctioneers on track for collectors sale