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Special Antique Auction — Gowans Auctions
| Auction House: | Gowans Auctions | Number of lots recorded: | 303 |
| Sale Title: | Special Antique Auction | Lots with images: | 293 |
| Auction Location: | Hobart | Prices available: | 232 |
| Date: | 15-Mar-2014 |
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Certificate of Appointment by Edward VII to Brigadier General Bertram Reveley Mitford to the Order of the Bath, Military Division
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Pair of carved bookends by Ellen Nora Payne depicting blue wren robin red breast and gumnut and leaf carving with the words 'Marian 5.8.1954, carved by Ellen Nora Payne At Age 89' for the vendor
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Watercolour (signed Cht Costatini 1857) View of a mill in south Hobart (on reverse), possibly Wilmot's mill Gore Street with Mt Wellington in background. Image size 141 MM (diameter). Original Tondo frame in ebonised Pearwood and gilt frame, signature possibly a variation of Cht Costantini
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Large whalebone walking stick featuring a Turks head handle with rope twist and diamond carving. Provenance: Richard Copping, skipper of Tasmanian whaling ship Harriet McGregor
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Hobart female factory convict Assignment Notice 1843, Mary Ann Lynch Assigned to Mr McLanachlan. 1816 Booklet, the Mothers Catechism for the Young Child, inside cover James Taylor (Winton) 1820
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84 printed items relating to Kirklands, Eskvale, Epping and other churches, 1870/1880's, 1892
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Unsigned Colonial watercolour of a girl in the style of convict Colonial Artist Charles Henry Theodore Costantini, written in fine pencil (possibly Mary)
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Pair of Thomas Bock crayon and pencil portraits in moulded birds eye huon pine frames made by Colonial picture framer Robin Hood, one signed T. Bock 1855 (painting size 34.5 cm x 29 cm). Provenance: Vendors family for 50 years
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Oak dower chest carved and signed by Ellen Nora Payne, Tasmanian wood carver (1865-1962). Carved with the words 'Home Keeping Hearts Are Happiest 1947' and '1947 Dower chest Norah and Tulloch field' with the initials 'N.P'. Decorated with acorn and Wren carving on ornately carved lions head feet. Length 130 cm, 56 cm x height 54 cm. Provenance: Field family by descent (Ellen Nora Payne Nee field)
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Colonial birds eye huon pine glass top bookcase with rolled drawer front flat pilasters and carved capitals. Huon pine secondaries, 225 cm high, 135 wide x 51 cm deep. Provenance: Property of Reverend Harlan Delbridge and Dr Dorothy Delbridge (Tasmania's first female doctor) at Westbury until given as a wedding gift to Gwen Collins (nee Lovatt) in the late 1920's and has been in the latter family ever since
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Early 19th century oak and mahogany longcase clock with scrolled pelmet, decorated with brass fittings
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Colonial musk tilt top dining table on barrel column with graduated collars and quadraform base supported by scrolled feet (in the style of John Brown, Launceston cabinet maker) table top is segmented and crossbanded secondary timbers are blackwood and spruce (c1845), 119 cm diameter
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