"This place gets one rather flustered, The sea is salt but the girls are
mustard".
Estimate: £700-800
Campbells hold their final sale of the year shortly,
Tuesday 9th December and look forward to offering some 500 lots of antiques
and collectables. Among them is the handsome mahogany kneehole desk,
circa 1770, more or less unscathed since the day it was made. It's
estimated at £1,000/£1,500. There's also a Georgian bracket clock,
£1,000/£1,500, a sonorous musical box playing five loud bells, a rosewood
apothecary's box and a very unusual 'candlestick' scale for weighing letters
in envelopes. A private collection of wines, both red and white from
France and from further afield make a timely appearance and a quarter-size
snooker table will amuse all those lucky enough to come and view.
Looking forward to 2015, the auctioneers have plenty "on the shelves" with a
sumptuous Welsh porcelain dessert service awaiting it's deserved attention
(£15,000/£20,000) and a large collection of saucy seaside postcards await
the summer months. Of greatest interest here are the watercolour
'originals' painted by the master, Donald McGill (1875-1962), whose
publishers once operated in Littlehampton, Sussex. It was from the
original watercolours that these famous and peculiarly British postcards
were ultimately produced. This sale will be a wonderful bonanza of
Donald's busty battle-axes, beautiful bathing belles and the hen-pecked
husbands with timeless one-liners that have been enjoyed by millions since
1910!
"I've no money left at the end of the week, But I've got a lot of week
left at the end of my money"
