Works of art sourced by William Montgomery’s office in Northern Ireland
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in the form of a Dutch Fluyt or Schooner. Three rigged masts with sails and flag masts front and rear. Galleried deck with tented canopy and figures. Stylised Dolphin spout and rudder, wheels, chained anchor.
Estimate: £5,000 to £7,000
Hammer price: £8,000
Auction date: November 2015 (Sotheby's London)
The well-documented Western Front MC, Italian Front Al Valore Militare, Palestine OBE and Dunkirk DSO awarded to Brigadier 'Dan' Perrott, Royal Engineers.
Estimate: £6,000 to £8,000
Hammer price: £18,000
Auction date: July 2014 (Sotheby's London)
A pair of French silver wine-coolers by Gustave Keller, Paris, circa 1900, with detachable liners, and two silver-gilt dishes by C. S. Harris, London, 1895.
Estimate: 6,000 to 8,000 Euros
Hammer price: 7,500 Euros
Auction date: May 2014 (Sotheby's Paris)
A cased pair of 40-bore French rifled percussion target pistols. Circa 1852-60. He exhibited at the International Exhibitions of 1839 & 1844, receiving a silver medal.
Estimate: £5,000 to £7,000
Hammer price: £4,500
Auction date: June 2013 (Sold by Thomas Del Mar Ltd. / Sotheby's)
Oil, acrylic and collage on canvas. Circa 1778. Inspired by Randalstown's first tractor - an Allis Chalmers model C, purchased by Douglas McAteer on 29th February 1944.
Estimate: £100,000 to £150,000
Hammer price: £100,000
Auction date: May 2013
Built in 1935 for Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (1878-1959). Only a handful .22 double barrel rimfire firles by Churchill are known to exist.
Estimate: £10,000 to £15,000
Hammer price: £17,500
Auction date: August 2012 (Sold by Gavin Gardiner Limited, Gleneagles)
A Christmas present from Queen Mary, consort to King George V, to Edith, Lady Londonderry. With a handwritten note: "For dear Edie from Mary R. Xmas 1931".
Estimate: 2,500 - 3,000 Swiss Francs (£1,662 - £1,994)
Hammer price: 10,000 Swiss Francs (£8,306)
Auction date: May 2012 (Sotheby's Geneva)
Order of St. Vladimir. Second class set of insignia, comprising neck badge in gold and enamels with Imperial Warrant, maker's mark and date.
Estimate: £30,000 to £50,000
Hammer price: £55,000
Auction date: June 2011 (Sold by Morton & Eden in associatioon with Sotheby's)
Twelve sketches of scenes in Southern Albania. Published May 1st 1855 by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen.
Estimate: £2,500 to £3,500
Hammer price: £2,500
Auction date: May 2011
Still Life. Oil on canvas. 1982.
Estimate: £60,000 to £80,000
Hammer price: £82,000
Auction date: March 2011
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated.
Estimate: £20,000 to £30,000
Hammer price: £42,000
Auction date: March 2011
A New Zealand satinwood and specimen parquetry tripod table. 3rd quarter, 19th Century.
Estimate: £6,000 to £8,000
Hammer price: £8,500
Auction date: June 2007
Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period blue and white beaker vase.
With Apocryphal Chenghua mark to the base.
Estimate: £4,000 to £6,000
Hammer price: £21,600
Auction date: July 2006
A collection of 53 rare porcelain plant label plaques by an unknown maker. 2nd half, 19th Century.
Estimate: £1,000 to £1,500
Hammer price: £1,560
Auction date: June 2006
Oil on canvas. John Steven Dews was born in 1949.
Estimate: £20,000 to £30,000
Hammer price: £36,000
Auction date: October 2005
