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 was an original pen, ink, colour and gouache picture by cartoon by Daily Express cartoonist Ronald 'Carl' Giles (1916-1995).

The airport scene shows passengers about to board a BOAC aeroplane with a tired pilot and co-pilot walking past after all-night strike talks, while the skies are filled with aircraft from other airlines.

Signed and titled to mount "Let's get one of these bloody planes in the air and catch up on some sleep", it sold for £2,200.

The surprise result of the sale was for a collection of Dragon Models Ltd 1:6 scale action figures, together with a collection of clothing, accessories and five original boxes, which sold for £580.

The toy section saw modern collectable items realising some pleasing prices, including a

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

More traditional items also performed well, including model railway items and die-cast model vehicles.

One of the other notable results saw a private collection of Dungeons & Dragons and similar role playing books and games sell for a total of £4,600 – a really pleasing outcome for an emerging collecting field.

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?

We are still accepting entries for our March auction, which will include jewellery, silver, watches and coins as well as the ever-popular classic cars and motorbikes.

If you are thinking of selling please give us a call on 01453 873800 to book a valuation or just ask for advice from one of our specialists