Treasures and trinkets for sale

The lunch-time book session includes reference books and monographs on SA artists; featuring Walter Battiss’ Gentle Anarchist, 75 & Comores, William Kentridge, Thami Mnyele, JH Pierneef, Zakkie Eloff, Fred Schimmel, Robert Hodgins’ The Human Race, Cecil Skotnes’ The Rooinek, Herman von Nazereth, Frans Claerhout, Johannes Meintjies, Zwelethu Mthethwa and Guy Tillim photo-journals; The Times History of the War in South Africa, Botany and Local History as well as an interesting and diverse collection of old Pretoria and Johannesburg photographs and autographs of known and unknown persons.

This will be followed by collectables at 3pm including Royal Albert, Doulton, Worcester and Foley tea and dinnerware, Clarice Cliff Bizarre Rodanthe and Newlyn pattern jugs, a 1950s Rosenthal Studio-Linie dinner service, Val St Lambert, Murano and Kosta Boda Studio glass, an old Transvaal Republic Ericsson Magneto Telephone, A Jugendstil style Argentor table centre-piece, silver flat and hollow-ware including an American Wallace sterling Grande Baroque pattern canteen, Greek Byzantine-style icons and a fine selection of Estate diamond and gold jewellery, including a diamond-encrusted tennis choker and bracelet, ruby and emerald set rings with a Van Cleef and Arpels dress ring being the highlight together with a hand-made 18ct gold ladies’ nécessaire. WWI and II Military memorabilia, documents and medals will conclude the second session.

At 5.30pm the South African Old Master and Contemporary Art will come under the hammer – among the 130 lots is an unusual Walter Battiss oil, In Search of Cosmic Man, Tahiti, a scarce screen print, The Invention of Walking Feathers and a delicate watercolour of a Tsonga village.