Games, toys and cartoons surprise at sale

STROUD Auctions’ January sale featured more than 1,000 lots in specialist sections of pictures and paintings, books, stamps, ephemera, cameras and binoculars, Asian art, vinyl records, musical instruments and toys.

As usual, there was a lot of interest, with almost 1,500 online bidders from 41 countries, most notably for the musical instruments, where three of the top selling lots were found.

The best of these comprised a 19th century rosewood cello, which sold for £4,600, a 1790’s Georg Hornsteiner violin (£3,200) and a W E Hill & Son violin bow (£2,900).

The auctioneer’s favourite lot

Signed and titled to mount "Let's get one of these bloody planes in the air and catch up on

Nintendo games console (£340) and six Lego sets (£530).

More traditional items also

More top results were found in the specialist camera section, where a Nikon D810 digital SLR camera realised a pleasing £850.

The next auction will be on February 8 and 9, and includes guns and weapons, medals and militaria, bladed weapons, taxidermy and sporting and ceramics and glass.

Our biggest gun auction ever, this one looks exceptional, with over 700 lots of guns and air weapons alone.

If you’ve never thought of buying at auction, why not come along to our public viewing day on February 7, between 10am and 6pm?

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