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Gorringes: Weekly featuring Autographs

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Auction Name Weekly featuring Autographs Total Sales (GBP) 8,301.56
Auction Date June 23, 2025 - June 23, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 3,235.00
Sale Number #62325 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 4,920.00
Total Lots 43
Sold Lots 36 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 4,145.00
% of Lots Sold 83.72% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 6,330.00
Unsold Lots 7 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 131.15%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1255

A Victorian autograph book

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,968.75
1273

An archive of post First World War documents and photographs

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,312.50
1259 Thomas Edison

A handwritten letter signed by Thomas Edison

1889 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,181.25
1271 Winston Churchill

Two letters from Winston Churchill;

1955 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 603.75
1265 HRH King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

Three Royal Christmas cards from HRH King George VI and Queen Elizabeth for 1948, 1949 and 1950

1948, 1949 and 1950 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 551.25
1729 Antony Micallef (b.1975),

'Girl Tokyo, 2005',

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 341.25
1258 Rudyard Kipling

A Rudyard Kipling type written letter on Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex headed notepaper

1927 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 315.00
1252 Charles IX of France

A mid 16th century letter on a single sheet of paper signed by Charles IX of France (1550-1574)

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 236.25
1263 HRH King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

A Royal Christmas card from HRH King George VI and Queen Elizabeth for 1943

1943 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 196.88
1349

Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches, vols. 1-24 (lacking vols. 17, 19 and 20).

1884-1907 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 105.00
1436 James Laver.

A Stitch in Time; or Pride Prevents a Fall.

1927 GBP 100.00 - 140.00 GBP 105.00
1257

A collection of 19th and 20th century documents, correspondence, and publications

19th and 20th century GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 91.88
1719 Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909-1989)

'Widgeons beyond the dunes' and 'Mallard in a mellow sky'

1946 and 1949 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 85.31
1434

Memorials of the English Affairs;

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 78.75
1459

[BIBLE] The Holy Family Bible ... with concise explanatory notes ...

1778 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 78.75
1718 Valda Bailey (Contemporary),

Seascape and coastline view

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 78.75
1379 Steinmetz, Andrew,

The Gaming Table: its votaries and victims ...

1870 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 72.19
1385 [Surtees, R.S.]

Sporting Novels. 6 vols.

ca.1900 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 72.19
1440 Holmes, Richard R. -

Queen Victoria.

1897 GBP 100.00 - 140.00 GBP 72.19
1722 Valda Bailey (contemporary),

pair of abstracts, Houses and beach huts,

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 72.19
1260

An autographed photograph of Pope Pius XI, on the celebration of the ordination of Albert Coleburt,

1935 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 65.63
1688 James T. A. Osborne RE (1907-1979),

wood engraving, 'Nyala Antelope',

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 65.63
1256 Randolph Churchill

A letter from Randolph Churchill

1885 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 59.06
1720

A collection of 18th century and later engravings and prints

18th century and later GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 59.06
1425 Gibbon, Edward -

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

1783 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 52.50
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