Page 38 - BBR magazine 140 - 30yrs issue

the bosses overview
On the road again, & again, & again, & again...”
If I’m gunna blame anyone it has ter be Kevin Boyle! There was a time, a few years back, when BBR had condensed to just 4 Elsecar auctions a year, & all was shifting along smoothly.
A little sale up at Bowburn each year, interspersed with one in Scotland... but generally 3 full Elsecar w/e’s & just Sunday at the SummerNational. Dear Kevins passing changed all that - a casual remark to John Yule & Dave Robertson about taking up some of Kev’s ‘bits’... then extended to Stanley, & from there snowballed to ELEVEN BBR ‘On the Road’ 2014 sales - what have I started?
Cirencester April 13
2014 started with Stanley (reported last issue). A little respite 1 before our 2nd ‘OtR’ at Bingham Hall, Cirencester.
The catalogue was available as a download - now really easy on BBR’s new website - pre order (it’s FREE), tho’ you still have to
go via a shopping trolley. A surprising number sent for pdf’s in advance, and a smattering of absentee bids on the day.
The Waits welcomed the concept and it definitely gave the show a ‘spring’, which was the idea of the new concept! Here’s a few results from the 60 lot live sale:
1. early Coventry hamilton & plated stand £190. 2. Bristol imp’d flask £188. 3. Wolverhampton ‘Codd patent 18’ £105. 4. Northampton ‘Burghley Arms’ pub named impressed tankard £135. 5. Pair pontilled Crosse & Blackwell essences, cobalt & ice blue, £70. 6. Superb ‘All Souls Common Room’ black glass cylinder’ £270. 7. Pair of North Staffs Dairy creams £112. 8. Mint dark green Oxford codd £155. 9. Leamington pot lid with shapely base £59. 10. Pristine Russian Bears Grease pot lid £100.
Sale total £2,500
Elsecar Easter Extravaganza April 19 & 20
Just a week after Cirencester it was another 2 days back up at Elsecar with the big Easter week-ender - barely had time to catch my breathe!
The glorious wasp waist was always going to stand high above everything else, and it did not fail in its £7,400 realisation.
The amber glass Gittoes dumpy codd got to £750, and just behind the superb ‘Blackbird
Distillery’ whiskey jug (ex AB collection)
flew to £700. You could almost feel the
feathers on the transfer!
Not quite 1,000 lots (over 2 days) but the sheer volume of material
finding new homes from the
Saturday and Sunday auctions is difficult to put into perspective
unless you view it all, or better still (from this side of the fence) have
to move it all over to Blg 21, one more final time (unless it goes postally - then its back into BBR for
paperwork & packing).
Then as soon as the shelves are seemingly bare - out pops material for the next 2 dayer, or, as in this case,
MORE ‘On the Roads’? Saturday sale total £12,550 Saturday sale total £53,450
Perth May 3
Weather determines the size of the much need Car Boot feature of this event - and was fair, with most of the bottle related stalls placed in front of the hall. In many ways better, but in truth diminishing the effectiveness of the overall ‘mixed’ Car Boot feel. Not the same as the old field location - shades of re-establishing the entire event - like moving SummerNational from Wath to Elsecar? Iain and Brian will forge ahead aiming to build, build, & build.
The auction seemed to struggle, although some
results did fare
well. Definitely
bargains for the
vigilant. 1. blue
transfer ‘John
Walker/ Fraser
burgh’ gb £236..
2. Blue lip ‘John
Curror/ Kirkcaldy’
(lip repair) £354.
3. Flat sided
‘aulder Lang
synes’ whiskey
(screaming mint) £112. 4. Scottish Co-op green poison £65. 5. Wilkinson ‘Rabbie Burns’ t.t. whiskey jug (neck restored) £124.
Done and dusted quickly, all packed up, first pint in Last Cast pub by mid afternoon, ready for the next, calendar date 1st w/e in May 2015?
Sale total £2,550
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