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

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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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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	-	View
9	† A pair of carved limestone Roundel benches (daggered lot) 60cm high by 160cm wide	£2,000 - £3,000	-	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

Total lots: 41

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