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Home, Garden & Natural History (Live) featuring the Ralfe Whistler Dodo collection

Closed for Absentee bids.

Auction date Tuesday 24 September 2024 13:00 - 16:00 BST

Ralfe Whistler (1930-2023) was a British naturalist whose father Hugh (1889-1943) was an ornithologist and collected 70,000 specimens of Indian birds. Ralfe was brought up surrounded by an extensive collection of stuffed birds, which were later donated to the Natural History Museum. Hugh had been given the first bones of a Dodo by the founder of the Hastings Museum, Thomas Parkin, to encourage his interest in natural history. The Dodo bones were passed on to Ralfe after his father's death and sparked an interest in the "funny looking" bird and resulted in a fascinating collection of all things Dodo! The collection is now coming up for auction at Summers Place Auctions on Tuesday, 24th September.

The Dodo Collection is accompanied by beautiful contemporary bronzes by Simon Gudgeon and Hamish Mackie as well as intriguing modernist pieces, three lots of incredible torcheres and an array of stunning stone items.

Click here for a pdf of the 24th Sept Home and Garden Auction (with comprehensive photos)

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Total lots: 41

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
1 An Istrian wellhead with wrought iron overthrow
Italian
74cm wide by 64cm high, 76cm diameter

Provenance:
Once owned by the Italian Honorary Vice Consul in Guernsey Marchese Peruzzi, who was from an old Florentine family closely allied with the…
£6,000 - £10,000 £6,000 View
2 A rare Georgian lead figure of Minerva attributed to John Cheere
circa 1760/70
on a later stone plinth
89cm high by 70cm wide; 184cm high overall
£5,000 - £8,000 £5,000 View
3 After the Antique: A bronze figure of a fisher boy
53cm high
£800 - £1,200 £800 View
4 A Pullham sundial
late 19th century
130cm high
£1,200 - £1,800 £1,500 View
5 A pair of Portland stone finials
circa 1900
96cm high
£5,000 - £8,000 £5,000 View
6 After Gott: A carved white marble figure
circa 1860
103cm high
£2,500 - £4,000 - View
7 J Rhind (1828-1892): A marble statue of Robert Burns
signed J. Rhind
104cm high
£2,000 - £4,000 £2,000 View
8 † A pair of carved limestone hairy paw benches (daggered lot)
50cm high by 150cm wide by 45cm deep
£2,000 - £3,000 £1,500 View
9 † A pair of carved limestone Roundel benches (daggered lot)
60cm high by 160cm wide
£2,000 - £3,000 £1,500 View
10 An unusual wrought iron and wooden seat
early 20th century
186cm wide
£600 - £1,000 £600 View
11 A rare cast iron seat
possibly German, late 19th century
130cm wide
£800 - £1,200 - View
12 A cast iron circular table with central rose
late 19th century
72cm diameter
£300 - £500 £300 View
13 A Coalbrookdale white painted cast iron table
19th century
73cm wide
See engraving
£500 - £800 £5,200 View
14 A carved white marble bust of a female
2nd half 19th century
72cm high
£800 - £1,200 £800 View
15 A stoneware figure of Hebe
probably Blashfield
104cm high
£500 - £800 £1,300 View
16 A pair of bronze torchères
180cm high

Once part of the facade or the interior of the Unilever building London
£4,000 - £6,000 £4,000 View
17 A Belgium torchère after a model by Jacques-Louis Gautier
circa 1870
signed Compagnie Anongine dis Bronzes
140cm high
£6,000 - £10,000 - View
18 A pair of Val D'Osne torchères
with bronzed patination
one with makers brass plaque
173cm high overall
£15,000 - £20,000 - View
19 A bronze female nude
French, 20th century
100cm high
£4,000 - £6,000 - View
20 ▲ Hamish Mackie: Life size lion (ARR)
Bronze
Signed and numbered Edition 1of 9, dated 2019
135cm by 53cm by 275cm
£12,000 - £18,000 £24,000 View
21 ▲ Hamish Mackie: Life size lioness (ARR)
Bronze
Signed and numbered
Edition 1 of 9, dated 2019
105cm by 41cm by 245cm
£12,000 - £18,000 £25,000 View
22 ▲ Gill Parker (ARR applies)
A monumental bronze tortoise
7/9
150cm long
£8,000 - £12,000 £10,500 View
23 ▲ Simon Gudgeon (ARR)
Thoth
Bronze
initialled 2/6 2004
285cm high
£25,000 - £40,000 £25,000 View
24 ▲ Simon Gudgeon (ARR)
Embrace
Bronze
Initialed and dated 2007
224cm high
£20,000 - £30,000 - View

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