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Auction Name
Cornish Art, Fine Art & Studio Pottery
Auction Date
09/11/2025 - 09/12/2025
Sale Number
#91125
Total Lots
148
Sold Lots
120
Lots Sold
81.08%
Unsold Lots
28
Total Sales (GBP)
30,786.70
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
24,430.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
40,540.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
34,090.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
55,110.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
55.86%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
10 Sandra BLOW (1925-2006)

Blue Square Collage

GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 2,253.60
82 Patrick HERON (1920-1999)

Two Pink Discs in Dark Reds (1970)

1970 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 2,128.40
447 Laurence Stephen LOWRY (1887-1976)

Burford Church, 1948

1948 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,815.40
486 Jim DINE (1935)

Key West Print (1981)

1981 GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,252.00
476 Rosemarie TROCKEL (1952)

Life (Gold)

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,126.80
474 Ansel Easton ADAMS (1902-1984)

Georgia O'Keeffe and Orville Cox

GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,126.80
343 Sandra BLOW (1925-2006)

Chelsea

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 651.04
371 Terry FROST (1915-2003)

Orchard Tambourine

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 563.40
206 John WELLS (1907-2000)

Topsail (1950)

1950 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 525.84
286 Gill WATKISS (1938-2024)

Tregarthan Farm (1979)

1979 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 525.84
208 Bryan PEARCE (1929-2006)

Two Boats (1995)

1995 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 500.80
20 Kurt JACKSON (1961)

RNLI Lifeboat Off Scilly, 2023

2023 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 500.80
620 Sandra Blow (1925-2006)

Allegro

2005 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 475.76
61 Gill WATKISS (1938-2024)

Winter, Bodmin Moor (1998)

1998 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 438.20
218 Bryan INGHAM (1936-1997)

Gunwalloe (1968)

1968 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 438.20
141 Bob LAW (1934-2004)

Double Kisses

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 438.20
382 Gill WATKISS (1938-2024)

St Just Celebration (2007)

2007 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 438.20
231 Bryan INGHAM (1936-1997)

A collection of ten loose drawings and plans

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 400.64
290 Terry FROST (1915-2003)

Orchard Tambourine

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 400.64
27 John PIPER (1903-1992)

Annunciation of the Shepherds

GBP 350.00 - 450.00 GBP 394.38

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  • Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
    Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
    Rare Map, Book, and Autograph Fair
    17 and 18 Oct
  • Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st privately printed edition, 1901. £40,000-£60,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). Squintina Tabby, Licensed dealer in Tea. £7,000-£10,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). A pair of original illustrations from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. £8,000-£12,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix, illustrator). A Happy Pair, 1st [and only] edition, 1890. £5,000-£8,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter, c. 1920. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, 1st (autographed limited) edition, 1929. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, 1903, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £1,500-£2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st deluxe edition, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st deluxe edition, 1903, rare trial binding. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st privately printed edition, December 1902. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter Signed, 26 October 1936. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Signed and Inscribed ICAA Christmas Card, 1938. £1,500-£2,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    By a Lady
    1-15 October 2025
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.
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