Live
17-18 May| Antiques & Interiors
Sale Days:
Wednesday 17 May 2023
Starts with Lot 551
Works of Art, Clocks Carpets & Furniture
Thursday 18 May 2023
Starts with Lot 1201
Asian, Coins & Medals,
Wednesday 17 May - Sussex Saleroom
Lot 551 – 729 Works of Art 10am
Lot 730 - 775 Clocks 11.30am
Lot 813 - 850
Carpets 12noon
Lot 901 – 1200 Furniture
& Garden Statuary 1pm
Thursday 18 May -
Sussex Saleroom
Lot 1201- 1387 Asian Ceramics & Works of Art 10am
Lot 1401 - 1547 Coins & Medals 1pm
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Sussex Saleroom
Friday, 12 May | 10am - 4pm
Saturday, 13 May | 9am - 12:30pm
Monday, 15 May | 10am - 4pm
Tuesday, 16 May | 10am - 1pm
Payment - to be received by bank transfer or on collection by 25 May
Collections
- Sussex Saleroom
We will be open for collections on sale days 9am -4.30pm and additionally
Saturday 20 May 9am -12noon
Monday 22 May 9am-4.30pm
Tuesday 23 May 9am – 4.30pm
Wednesday 24 May 9am – 4.30pm
Thursday 25 May 9am - 4.30pm
CLOSED 27-29 May –Bank Holiday Weekend
Lot 1440
Sold
TWO ELIZABETH II PROOF SOVEREIGNS (2)
Both 2016
Hammer price:
£580
Estimate: £500 - £600
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1441
Sold
A COLLECTION OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS (QTY)
To include; George V, George VI and Elizabeth II pre-decimal issues, displayed in three albums, a 1989 proof set, various further coin sets, including 1970, commemorative crowns, further commemorative issues, a cartwheel twopence 1797, a Solomon Islands proof ten dollars 1993, a half dollar 1944, a William IV shilling 1834 and a few further coins
Hammer price:
£50
Estimate: £40 - £60
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1442
Sold
AN ELIZABETH II PROOF SOVEREIGN
1996, with The Royal Mint certificate card and case
Hammer price:
£300
Estimate: £240 - £280
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1443
Sold
AN ITALIAN MESSINA EARTHQUAKE 1908 MEDAL
Un-named, with the original case of issue and forwarding paper slip, together with a hand written envelope detailed 'Awarded to seaman Frank Hunter'
Hammer price:
£80
Estimate: £80 - £120
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1444
Sold
TWO ELIZABETH II SOVEREIGNS (2)
1959 AND 1967
Hammer price:
£580
Estimate: £500 - £600
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1445
Sold
A DANUBIAN CELTS TETRADRACHN
Imitating a Thasos issue first century B.C
Hammer price:
£50
Estimate: £50 - £70
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1446
Sold
TWO ELIZABETH II SOVEREIGNS
1963 and 1965
Hammer price:
£550
Estimate: £500 - £600
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1447
Sold
A GROUP OF SIX SECOND WORLD WAR MEDALS AND FOUR FURTHER ITEMS (10)
The medals comprising; The 1939-45 Star, The Africa Star, The Italy Star, The France and Germany Star, The Defence Medal and The War Medal, all un-named as issued, with the original packets, a Royal Artillery badge, two officer's pips, a Roman silver denarius of Domitian 81-96 AD and a George III shilling 1787, mounted as a pendant
Hammer price:
£40
Estimate: £60 - £90
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1448
Sold
TWO ELIZABETH II SOVEREIGNS (2)
1957 and 1958
Hammer price:
£580
Estimate: £500 - £600
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1449
Sold
A COLLECTION OF ASIAN AND OTHER COINS (QTY)
To include; a Chinese Junk Dollar, various Islamic, Indian and further ancient coins, including silver and bronze issues, a New Zealand seven coin set 1967, modern British coins, further foreign coins and a Japanese banknote
Hammer price:
£160
Estimate: £80 - £120
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1450
Sold
TWO ELIZABETH SOVEREIGNS (2)
1964 and 1968
Hammer price:
£580
Estimate: £500 - £600
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1451
Sold
A GROUP OF MOSTLY FOREIGN COINS (QTY)
To include an eight reales 1795, Mexico City Mint, a piece of eight, a re-struck Maria Theresia dollar 1780, another eight reales probably 1741, Mexico City Mint, two Mexico five pesos 1948 and further coins
Hammer price:
£400
Estimate: £80 - £120
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1452
Sold
TWO ELIZABETH II SOVEREIGNS (2)
1962 and 1966
Hammer price:
£580
Estimate: £500 - £600
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1453
Sold
A COLLECTION OF ASIAN COINS (QTY)
To include Chinese cash issues, Indian and other Asian issues, mostly bronze, but including some silver, also two items of Chinese imitation spade money, with a case having lift-out trays
Hammer price:
£1,800
Estimate: £70 - £100
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1455
Sold
A GOLD AND DIAMOND SET MASONIC JEWEL
Designed as a Masonic square, the suspension detailed TRANQUILLITY 185, mounted with a cushion shaped diamond, detailed 18 CT and engraved Presented by The Brethren of The Lodge of Tranquillity No 185 to Bro Lawrence Levy W.M., in recognition of Services as W.M during the past year, presented in Open Lodge February 17th 1908, gross weight 23.6 gms, with a case
Hammer price:
£450
Estimate: £450 - £650
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1456
Sold
A COLLECTION OF MASONIC REGALIA (QTY)
To include nine Masonic jewels, two books, sashes, gloves, skull cap and aprons, with a case
Hammer price:
£120
Estimate: £60 - £90
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1457
Sold
A VICTORIA JUBILEE HEAD SOVEREIGN
1889
Hammer price:
£320
Estimate: £280 - £320
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1458
Sold
EIGHTEEN BANK OF ENGLAND FIVE POUND NOTES (18)
Chief Cashier L. K.O'Brien, 1957-1961 issue
Hammer price:
£180
Estimate: £120 - £180
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1460
Sold
A MEXICO 50 PESOS
1931
Hammer price:
£1,500
Estimate: £1,400 - £1,600
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1461
Sold
A 1914-18 BRITISH WAR MEDAL AND A 1914-19 VICTORY MEDAL (3)
To 562400 SPR.P.J.MORRIS. R.E., also a Home Guard named certificate showing Second World War Service from 5th June 1940 to 31st December 1944
Hammer price:
£20
Estimate: £40 - £50
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1462
Sold
A COLLECTION OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS AND FURTHER ITEMS (QTY)
Including; a George III penny 1806, further copper and bronze coins, an 1897 Silver Jubilee medallion, with the original case, a 1953 nine coin set, a Jersey five shillings 1966, a French twenty francs 1933, an Australia florin 1927, a Kent Education Committee silver medal and further items
Hammer price:
£70
Estimate: £50 - £80
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1463
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH PRE-DECIMAL COINS AND TWO FOREIGN COINS (QTY)
Comprising; two 1953 Coronation crowns, a 1916 half crown, a quantity of pre-1947 half crowns, florins and shillings, a Japanese one thousand yen 1964, commemorating The Tokyo Olympics and a USA dollar 1924, plated and fitted to a mount
Hammer price:
£50
Estimate: £70 - £100
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1464
Unsold
A COLLECTION OF BRITISH PRE-DECIMAL COINAGE (QTY)
To include pre-1947 silver issues, two crowns and a quantity of post-1947 issues
Estimate: £100 - £150
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1465
Sold
AN ARMY LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL AND FURTHER ITEMS (QTY)
The Long Service Medal, Elizabeth II issue, with suspension detailed Regular Army to 23215502 COH. C.E.JONES RHG/D, mounted court style, a National Service Medal, unnamed, a brass bed plate detailed Coldstream Guards, two Christmas cards 1968 and 1969 detailed From Elizabeth R, with one envelope and a framed display of insignia, detailed Cpl of The Horse Colin Jones
Hammer price:
£80
Estimate: £80 - £120
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1466
Sold
A GROUP OF MOSTLY BRITISH COINS (QTY)
Comprising; twenty pre-1947 George V and George VI half crowns, a small quantity of silver threepences, a 2006 proof five pound coin, two Gibraltar proof five pound crowns and one Gibraltar proof crown
Hammer price:
£70
Estimate: £70 - £90
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1467
Sold
A COLLECTION OF MOSTLY FOREIGN COINS (QTY)
To include Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, Italy, Holland and Portugal, also three enamelled lapel badges, including Comrades of The Great War
Hammer price:
£40
Estimate: £40 - £60
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1468
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH COINS (QTY)
Comprising; two Charles II fourpences 1677 and 1679, two Elizabeth I coins, including a sixpence, a James II half crown, a George IV half crown, two shillings, three sixpences, including George II 1757 and a small quantity of silver threepences
Hammer price:
£90
Estimate: £50 - £80
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1469
Sold
A SMALL GROUP OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS (QTY)
To include two Victoria half crowns 1889 and 1897, a James II gun money shilling, March 1690, also Jersey, France, Belgium, U.S.A and South Africa issues
Hammer price:
£40
Estimate: £40 - £60
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1470
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH SILVER PRE-1920 COINS (QTY)
Comprising; half crowns, florins, shillings, sixpences and threepences of Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V issues
Hammer price:
£80
Estimate: £80 - £120
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1471
Sold
AN ELIZABETH II PROOF HALF SOVEREIGN
1980, with a leaflet and Royal Mint case
Hammer price:
£170
Estimate: £140 - £160
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1472
Sold
A COLLECTION OF MEDALS, INSIGNIA, CAP BADGES, PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER ITEMS (QTY)
Including; a Victoria London County Council Metropolitan Fire Brigade 1897 Diamond Jubilee bronze…
Hammer price:
£170
Estimate: £60 - £90
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1473
Sold
AN ELIZABETH II PROOF HALF SOVEREIGN
1980, with a leaflet and a Royal Mint case
Hammer price:
£160
Estimate: £140 - £160
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1474
Sold
A COLLECTION OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS AND MEDALLIONS (QTY)
To include; a 1937 part specimen set (three coins lacking), a 1937 Coronation medallion, cased, a Canada proof dollar 1977, cased, various Elizabeth II commemorative crowns, to include four 1953 Coronation examples, foreign coins and further items
Provenance: The Estate of the late Professor Jonathan & Mrs Deanna Brostoff, https://www.bellmans…
Hammer price:
£180
Estimate: £60 - £80
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1475
Sold
A COLLECTION OF BRITISH COINS AND BANKNOTES (QTY)
To include pre-1947 silver issues, comprising; half crowns, florins, shillings and sixpences, a 1953 crown, ten fifty pence coins, a few further coins, four five pound notes, four one pound notes and one ten shilling note
Hammer price:
£350
Estimate: £300 - £350
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1476
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS (QTY)
Including; a Charles I shilling, a George III penny 1797, two 1935 Silver Jubilee Crowns, a Roman Denarius, a USA Morgan dollar 1921, a USA dollar 1926, a re-struck Maria Theresia dollar 1780, a New Zealand crown 1949, a Netherlands two and a half guilders 1930, an Austria fifty schilling 1964 and a twenty-five schilling 1958, a few further coins and a Maundy money box containing a fourpence 1898 and a threepence 1898
Provenance: The Estate of the late Professor Jonathan & Mrs Deanna Brostoff, https://www.bellmans…
Hammer price:
£100
Estimate: £70 - £100
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1477
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH COINS AND A FEW FURTHER ITEMS (QTY)
Comprising; a George II maundy penny 1754, two Victorian half crowns 1887 and 1901, two pre-1947 half crowns, 1940 and 1942, eight further half crowns, a silver proof commemorative crown 1980, with a case, thirteen further crowns, a U.S.A dollar 1922, a ten shilling note and a few further items
Hammer price:
£50
Estimate: £50 - £70
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1478
Sold
AN EDWARD VII SOVEREIGN
1910
Hammer price:
£280
Estimate: £280 - £300
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1479
Sold
TWO HALF SOVEREIGNS (2)
Comprising Victoria old head 1900 and Edward VII 1903
Hammer price:
£280
Estimate: £280 - £300
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1480
Sold
AWARDS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO SIR HENRY JOSEPH TWYNAM FORMERLY ACTING GOVERNOR OF BENGAL
To include; The Knight Commander of The Star of India Breast Star, cased, (the neck badge lacking), a 1914-18 British War Medal to LIEUT.H.J.TWYNAM, The 1935 Silver Jubilee Medal, The 1937 Coronation Medal, these last three mounted as worn, documents including The Statutes of The Order of The Star of India, a Commission document appointing him as Governor of Assam, together with a lady's dress miniature Kaiser I Hind, on a bow ribbon
Hammer price:
£4,800
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1481
Sold
A GROUP OF PAPERWORK AND PHOTOGRAPHS (6)
relating to Sub Lieutenant H R W Twynam comprising; his appointment document as Sub Lieutenant, 1st July 1938, two group photographs as a cadet at Dartmouth College, two portrait photographs and a Buckingham Palace framed consolation note. Lieut H R W Twynam died on 1st August 1940, when H.M Submarine Narwhal was sunk by the Germans and is commemorated on The Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Hammer price:
£80
Estimate: £40 - £60
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
Lot 1484
Sold
AN AUSTRALIA SOVEREIGN
Sydney Mint 1870
Hammer price:
£450
Estimate: £260 - £300
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
18 May 2023
18 May 2023