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Antique Auction — Gowans Auctions

Auction House:Gowans AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:258
Sale Title:Antique AuctionLots with images:258
Auction Location:HobartPrices available:190
Date:28-Jul-2018
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Georgian walnut cased bracket clock with face marked Barber, 56 Cheapside London, 44 cm high x 37 cm wide, 20 cm deep
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Exhibition standard black bean sideboard made by Brisbane cabinetmaker John Merten on Commission for Major Gifford Croll (Served at Gallipoli & Egypt from 1915, 1919) stamped J Merten in multiple places
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Carved crucifix frame with portrait photo, Crawford's Studio Hobart 1918
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Musk framed Hobart Town print
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Victorian mahogany chiffonier
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Victorian china jug
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Royal Doulton jardiniere, sheep grazing, 20 cm high
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Campbell Pottery vase, blue, 16.5 cm high
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Victorian mahogany desk on turned legs with false drawer front, 132 cm long
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Remued Pottery basket with rope twist handle, 27 cm high
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McHugh Pottery vase, 17 cm
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Victorian kerosene lamp with hand painted font
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19th century cedar & mahogany single drawer hall table with bow front on lion paw feet
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Pair of Sheffield plate bottle coasters
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Three bottle English oak tantalus, key in office
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Framed watercolour, a late 1800's view of Lerwick, Shetland Isles 22 x 43 cm
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Oil painting in the style of Edith Holmes
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19th century mahogany 5 drawer chest of drawers with full columns
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Pair of Sheffield plate candlesticks
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Three bottle Sheffield plate tantalus (decanters not matching)
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Coogans blackwood china cabinet with leadlight doors
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Marigold Carnival glass bowl, deer, 19.5 cm
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Tall blue McHugh vase, 29.5 cm
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19th century pine 7 drawer chest of drawers with cantilever top
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19th century Chinese scroll, framed, 115 x 52 cm
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Historical framed 1913 certificate from St Andrews Society Launceston to undertaker Alex Clark, hand drawn & decorated by Arthur Wiggins, 53 x 43 cm, office bearers names including James Boag & Norman Cameron, Esquire of Bentley
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Framed embroidery, 'Victory for the Allies' with soldier's photo
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Tasmanian oil painting, Tamar River, 50 x 75 cm
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Baxter print, Dover Coast
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Framed print, South Sea Whale Fishery
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Van Diemans Land, Land Grant, 1823, signed Governor Brisbane, 700 acres to William Mackie
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Van Diemans Land, Land Grant 1823 signed Governor Brisbane, 700 acres to Matthew Wilson
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Van Diemans Land, Land Grant signed John Franklin, 640 acres to James Aitken
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Van Diemans Land, Land Grant, John Franklin, 640 acres to James Aitken
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Pair of Dutch style portrait, oils on canvas in ornate gilt frames
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Oil on canvas on board, Snowden 1896 by Joshua Higgs Jr, 19 x 39.5 cm
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Two Thai 19th century framed prints
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European lacquered & silvered bronze plaque, religious theme 42 x 29 cm
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Tasmanian Land Grant, signed fox young, to Charles Wright in the Township of Bridgewater
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Convex mirror in ornate gilt reproduction frame
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Regency brass bevelled edge mirror
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Framed Pears print in original J Walch Hobart frame
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Eastern cabinet with 2 doors & 2 drawers & brass fittings
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Victorian mahogany bookcase in Sheraton style, key in office
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Victorian rosewood marble top credenza, key in office
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Victorian mahogany sewing table with fold over games table top on double stretcher base
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Colonial 6 drawer cedar chest of drawers with flat tapering pilasters & drawer with knulling
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Victorian mahogany gentlemans chair
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Kauri pine 2 drawer desk on facetted blackwood legs
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Eastern jewellery cabinet with multiple drawers & compartments
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Book, Australian Colonial Furniture, by John Buttsworth
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Victorian writing box
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Early Colonial Furniture in NSW & Van Diemans Land, Craig Fahy & Robertson
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Six 19th century cedar Trafalgar dining chairs
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Book, 1988 commemorative collection of fine Colonial furniture, the rustic charm
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Musk & birdseye huon pine box
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Fiddleback blackwood tray with plated gallery
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Ivory handle blackwood walking stick
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19th century cedar 9 drawer twin pedestal partners desk with leather & crossbanded top
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Carved back chair, Chinese rosewood
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Victorian mahogany button back gentleman's chair with scrolled arms
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Large lighthouse lamp, 79 cm
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English oak stretcher base table, richly carved
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Colonial cedar double end sofa
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Colonial cedar & musk writing box, interior incomplete
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19th century 3 drawer cedar country style hall table on square tapered legs
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Set of 6 Victorian rosewood saddle back dining chairs
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Victorian walnut sofa table with shaped top ornate quadriform base
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Colonial cedar commode chair (C1830)
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Huon & kauri pine miners couch with rolling pin ends
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19th century cedar dining table on turned legs
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Victorian inlaid rosewood vanity box with contents
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Chinese hat, black & red lacquer, hand painted
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Colonial cedar cutlery tray with finger mould handle
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Unusual 19th century cedar carver chair with scrolled arms
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Victorian walnut side table
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Victorian mahogany leather bound library chair
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Pair of cedar Trafalgar dining chairs & matching cedar carver chair, 19th century
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Plated spirit kettle
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Large copper kettle. This is a ships kettle, the cylindrical base fits into the coal or wood fired stove top so it does not capsize with the rolling of the ship. It also aids heating. Origin is probably Scandinavian mid 1800's. See copy of National Geographic Article (enclosed in the kettle) featuring a similar kettle
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Early small cedar table top 3 drawer cabinet, 25.5 cm high x 32 cm wide, 21.5 cm deep
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Six convict bricks with broad arrow & Royal engineers stamps
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Large blacksmith forged convict era man trap with impressed horseshoe & the letter B markings, swivel chain attachment on end, 128 cm long
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Pair of Eastern bronze vases with raised pattern, 31 cm
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Cedar & huon pine display case (table top)
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Regency mahogany twin pedestal stretcher base side table
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Print, the old Wharf Hobarton, a wood
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Print, John Skinner Prout, Port Arthur
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Two English oak ornately carved leather seat monk's chairs in X-shape
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Chart New Holland & New Guinea 1797
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Maritime etching, early whaling scene, Geoffrey C Ingleton
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Victorian rosewood table on cabriole legs
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19th century rosewood inlaid sideboard
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Eastern small 3 panel black lacquer screen, hand painted & inlaid, 61 cm high x 61 cm (W)
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Victorian kerosene lamp with ruby glass font & iron base
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Large bronze vase, 34 cm
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Small sewing machine in tin case, Ideal Sewing Company
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Two large almost identical Satsuma vases, 63 x 60 cm
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Eastern style bronze urn, ornate
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Ornate china jardiniere, 38 cm
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