Trevanion Auctioneers & Valuers

AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS

Welcome Since our establishment in 2014 there have been so many highlights that we couldn’t let another year slip away without reflecting on, and sharing with you, some of the beautiful pieces that we have had the honour of handling.

I am proud to have established the business in my home county of Shropshire, where my knowledgeable and experienced team and I, are dedicated to offering you the exceptional service that you would expect from a local business, yet with an international audience. Whether you are asking us to uncover the stories behind your treasures, or are looking for curated antiques to expand your collection or decorate your home, we look forward to being of assistance.

Our diverse and exciting calendar of fine art and antiques, specialist and country house auctions are held at our newly refurbished, historic saleroom based in Whitchurch.

Whether you are an established or new client, we look forward to welcoming you.

Christina Trevanion Managing Partner & Founder

Front cover image: A Grand Tour specimen table, sold for £7,500

AU C T I O N E E R S & VA LU E R S

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Jewellery Silver & Gold Asian Art & Carpets Watches Militaria Works of Art Fine Art Country House Auctions Furniture British & Continental Ceramics Clocks & Timepieces Tennis & Textiles

All sold prices quoted are not inclusive of buyers premium.

Contact us The Joyce Building Station Rd Whitchurch SY13 1RE Telephone: 01948 800 202 Email: info@trevanion.com

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JEWELLERY

Sold £2,400

Sold £1,200

Sold £1,400

Sold £2,600

Sold £8,000

Sold £2,400

Sold £3,400

SPOTLIGHT: on coloured stones Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but jewellery set with precious coloured gemstones such as sapphires, rubies, spinels, peridots and tourmalines are gaining in prominence within today’s market.

Jewellery valuer Helena Waudby FGA DGA notes that ‘Buyers are gaining in confidence and being more adventurous, they are looking beyond traditional colourless diamonds and wanting to acquire beautiful coloured stones to add variety to their collections’. There is nothing more extraordinary than the magic and fascination of a coloured gemstone, and naturally, as demand increases, so does price… watch this space.

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Sold £6,500

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SILVER & GOLD Sold £3,300

ITS ALL IN THE PEDIGREE This splendid silver claret jug was discovered by Auctioneer Ashley Jones during a home visit in Cheshire.

Inherited by the owner, the claret jug was instantly recognisable as something very special. Under ‘normal’ circumstances, you would expect a claret jug to have a glass body, however, this solid silver bodied example was endearingly modelled as a circus dog. Claret jugs are highly sought after and not only did this example appeal to claret jug connoisseurs, but also to silver animal and novelty silver collectors.

Sold £30,000

Hotly contested by both domestic and international bidders the jug sold to a private collector for an incredible £30,000, were they barking mad? We don’t think so.

Sold £1,250

A Fabergé silver gilt and enamelled vesta case circa 1900, from the Dr Cook collection of vesta cases which sold for £30,000

Sold £5,600

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A magnificent Cartier gold dressing set, dated 1912

SILVER & GOLD

Sold £32,000

Sold £950

Sold £7,600

Sold £2,600

Sold £7,600

Sold £2,700

Sold £1,500 Sold £3,200

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ASIAN ART & CARPETS

Sold £2,600

Sold £1,800

From top down:

Sold £1,800

A large Persian Ziegler type hand woven carpet, sold £2,200 A Caucasian hand woven wool carpet, sold £750 A Caucasian Karabagh hand woven wool runner, sold £460 A Kashmir type bamboo silk carpet, sold £780 A Persian Mahal hand woven wool carpet, sold £800 An Art Deco wool carpet, sold £550 A George Bain (1881-1968) for Quayle & Tranter Ltd of Kidderminster, Arts and Crafts hunting carpet, sold £360 A Persian Bakhtiari typre wool carpet, sold £1,500 Issue Two • Auction Review

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WATCHES Sold £4,000

Sold £2,600 Sold £4,000

Sold £2,000 Sold £6,000

Sold £3,100

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Sold £1,380

Sold £7,000

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WATCHES Sold £1,300 Sold £2,200

Sold £1,300

Sold £8,000

Sold £1,300

Sold £8,500

ONE TO WATCH ‘People often ask me what they should be investing in, and my usual advice is that you can’t possibly go wrong if you buy something you like and would enjoy owning. It is difficult to predict what will be sought after in years to come, however the auction room has yielded some fascinating results in recent years and none more noticeable than the boom in the watches market, particularly wristwatches.

We have noticed that luxury brands; Rolex, Patek Phillippe, Omega, Cartier and IWC, to name a few, have performed increasingly strongly and those models that are the closest to the initial model at the time of production. Coupled with being a clean example in good condition means that these are likely to increase in value over time.

However, my initial advice still stands, buy it because you want it, look after it and if it increases in value over time, then great! If it doesn’t, you have derived pleasure from owning a miniature masterpiece and being its custodian over the years’.

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Christina Trevanion with a Grana military watch sold for £9,000

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MILITARIA

CHURCHILL’S CIGAR

Sold £2,600

One of our most unusual finds to hit the headlines came in the form of a half smoked cigar that was left by Sir Winston Churchill on his voyage aboard HMS Duke of York in 1941 to meet President Roosevelt. Christina Trevanion explains ‘The cigar comes from a pivotal point in our history and is something we all associate with ‘British Bulldog’ Churchill’, collected by the ships chaplain and with impeccable provenance, the cigar caught the eye of keen Churchill enthusiast, who secured the cigar for £2,600. ‘The buyer was delighted with his purchase and messaged us to express his joy at acquiring such a historically important artefact for his collection’ explained Christina.

A collection of military miniatures sold for £9,000

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Sold £4,200

Sold £1,500

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MILITARIA

Sold £5,200

Sold £1,900 Sold £950

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WORKS OF ART

Sold £4,400

Sold £1,500

Sold £1,600

Sold £3,200

Sold £1,000

Sold £1,200

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FINE ART

5 | Sold £4,600

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1 | Sold £10,500

2 | Sold £2,400

3 | Sold £2,800

4 | Sold £2,600

6 | Sold £2,100

Natale Schiavoni (1777 – 1858) Venetian/Italian School

7 | Sold £1,900

8 | Sold £1,300

5. Manner of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola - called Parmagianino

2. Attributed David Teniers the younger (1610-1690)

6. Alfred Duke (1863-1915)

3. Alfred Fontville De Breanski Jnr (1877-1955)

7. Follower of Sir Peter Lely (1618 – 1680)

4. Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (Italian 1834-1912)

8. English school, Study in the Pre-Raphaelite style

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FINE ART

Michael Dahl (Swedish 1659 – 1743) Portrait of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet (1693—1749)

9 | Sold £6,500

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FINE & COUNTRY FURNITURE

Sold £7,400

Sold £4,000

Sold £16,500

Sold £2,000

Sold £4,000

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FINE & COUNTRY FURNITURE

Sold £2,400

Ian Woodward

Sold £4,400

A collection of treen sold for over £5,000

Sold £1,700

Sold £1,900

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CLOCKS & TIMEPIECES

Sold £1,900

Sold £2,400 Sold £2,200

Sold £1,700

Sold £6,000

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TENNIS & TEXTILES

Sold £17,000

TIME FOR TENNIS? GAME SET AND MATCH This highly sought after Sphairistike Lawn Tennis set, was found languishing in a summer pavilion in the grounds of a Cheshire country house and created a stir in the saleroom when the collection sold for a phenomenal £21,000 to a UK based private collector who battled hard to secure his purchase against a determined American online bidder.

Despite only being a part set and in very poor condition, the exciting find still drew international interest from the tennis community. “The Sphairistike set was exceptional’ said Managing Partner Christina Trevanion ‘correctly and diligently identified by my team, we spoke to a great number of impassioned collectors who stressed how rarely an original Sphairistike set comes up for auction and just how much of an impact that this game had on tennis as we know it. Moreover its creator, Major Walton Clopton Wingfield, hailed not too far from us in Wrexham, so in many ways it was as if the set was coming home!”

Prior to the Sphairstike’s invention, tennis was played on specialized indoor courts which were expensive and troublesome to erect, by the mid 19th-century the games popularity was in decline. Wingfield, envisioned a version of a tennis court which could be easily erected on outdoor croquet lawns. After experimenting with the idea, Wingfield secured a patent in 1874 for what he described as the ‘New and Improved Court for Playing the Ancient Game of Tennis’ which he coined ‘Sphairistiké’ a Greek term which roughly translates to ‘ball-game.’

Sphairistiké was a hit with the upper classes, many of whom replaced their croquet lawns with more permanent ‘lawn tennis’ courts. In 1877, the All England Croquet Club in Wimbledon decided to stage competitive Lawn Tennis games for the very first time, and thus began The Wimbledon Championships we know now. Major Wingfield achieved his ambition of restoring the noble game of tennis to its former glory, transforming a once strictly indoor game into the outdoor version we are so familiar with today.

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TENNIS & TEXTILES

‘One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s’ - Jane Austen

A collection of 18th century textiles sold for £37,000

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Discovering the stories behind your treasures

Buntingsdale Hall, Shropshire

Lights, Camera, Action!

Although her filming schedule was disrupted substantially throughout 2020/2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ‘The show must go on’ was very much the cry we heard from Christina.

‘I was very honoured to be able to continue filming, albeit in a very reduced and COVID secure manner in 2020. It was important for me to keep providing new content for viewers, and I was grateful to receive many lovely messages from viewers who found that watching my programmes was a ‘ray of light’ in all the bad news that we were hearing’.

‘It is easy to forget, in our busy lives, that for some people, to see a familiar face on television is not only reassuring but may be the highlight of their day whilst they struggle in isolation. We managed to create some ‘special’ episodes of Bargain Hunt and continue filming Antiques Road Trip in separate vehicles. I am very much looking forward to returning to some form of normality in my television work in 2021’ hear hear to that!

Valuation Appointments We provide free, no obligation valuation appointments at our saleroom: The Joyce Building, Station Road, Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 1RE Our team of valuers are on hand to discuss your antiques and provide you with an auction estimate for the items you wish to sell.

To book your valuation appointment, please call 01948 800 202 or email info@trevanion.com.

If you have larger items or a collection that you are considering selling, call us to arrange a confidential home visit with one of our valuers.

The Joyce Building, Station Road, Whitchurch, SY13 1RE 01948 800 202 | info@trevanion.com

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