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 WEMBLEY STADIUM ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE TO BE AUCTIONED BY THE BROOKING TRUST
Charles Brooking's Architectural Museum Trust is to sell nine lots of architectural salvage from Max Ayrton's 1923 Wembley Stadium at a sporting memorabilia auction organised by Graham Budd on 8 November at Sotheby's in London.
The biggest lot at 10m by 5m is the Royal Tunnel Gates by Samuel Elliott & Sons Ltd of Reading, estimated at £5,000-10,000, while one of the round windows from the iconic Twin Towers, also by Samuel Elliott & Sons Ltd is estimated at £3,000-5,000. Also included are several pieces from the Royal Retiring Room such as doors, windows and wall panels plus a fanlight from the Long Bar and a balustrade and lights that were situated by the Royal Box.
Charles Brooking acquired the gates and other items from the original Wembley Stadium prior to its demolition. A spokesman from the Brooking Trust said: "Regrettably it is the size and weight which negates their retention in the collection. It is with sadness that they and the other pieces are being released; we have held them for the last eleven years hoping to find a way of displaying them, but without success."
Graham Budd, said: "I am delighted to be selling the gates from the most famous sporting venue in the UK, if not the world. This is not the first time that I have been asked to sell such wonderful architectural objects. I sold the Ascot Racecourse entranceway to the winner's enclosure in 2005 for £280,000. Unfortunately as these items are so large, they will not be on view at Sotheby's during the auction viewing."
Wembley stadium was opened on 28 April 1923, built as part of the British Empire Exhibition by Sir Robert McAlpine. The stadium cost £750,000, designed by architects Sir John Simpson and Maxwell Ayrton. Originally it was intended to demolish the stadium at the end of the Exhibition, but it was saved when Arthur Elvin started buying the derelict buildings one by one, demolishing them, and selling off the scrap. The stadium had gone into liquidation, after it was pronounced "financially unviable". Elvin offered to buy the stadium for £127,000, using a £12,000 downpayment and the balance plus interest payable over ten years. The Wembley Company then bought it back from Elvin, leaving him with a healthy profit. Instead of cash he received shares, which gave him the largest stake in Wembley Stadium and he became chairman. The stadium closed in October 2000, and was demolished in 2003 for redevelopment. The top of one of the twin towers was erected as a memorial in the park on the north side of Overton Close in the Saint Raphael's Estate.
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SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BENEFIT FROM IKEA REUSE INITIATIVE
Swedish home store IKEA has run a not very successful pilot scheme for customers to give secondhand bulky goods to the Furniture Reuse Network.
IKEA's Charlie Browne told the Larac local authority recycling conference held in Kenilworth last week, that the pilot was run in Coventry and Wednesbury which allowed a customer who bought a new mattress to pay £15 to IKEA to take their old mattress back, which would then be reused or recycled. "We don't want to make any money from this," he said, "this is convenient, great value and helps someone else. It aims to be a reuse service."
Furniture Reuse Network members would then collect the old items from IKEA and give them to the poor or needy. FRN estimates that of the 10 million items that are thrown away each year, 3 million could be reused and more could be repaired.
IKEA aims for the service to be offered eventually in all its stores in the UK and Ireland.
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 COLIN FIRTH'S ECO GUILT AND LIVIA ON A GREEN RED CARPET ECO AGE WEBSITE
"If there's one bit of red carpet tyranny we'd love the Green Carpet Challenge to dispense with," writes Livia Firth on her newly launched website, Eco Age, "it's the idea that no two women must ever be seen in the same dress. In many ways this dictat just plays into the whole consumer churn and fast fashion cycle that we're trying to avoid. So we say why on earth not? When you've got a great designer, and a great piece, shouldn't that piece be outed as many times as possible?"
The website is about support for sustainable luxury fashion which reuses, cares for the environment, and lasts the distance of time instead of contributing to the throwaway age. At the Venice Film Festival, Livia wore a 50s inspired dress which she designed with Yoox and was made by upcycling specialists Reclaim-to-Wear. Look out for this Italian social justice enterprise which will be launched in December.
Other contributors raise environmental issues. Lucy Siegle in 'Handbags at dawn' considered the link between fashion and deforestation. The National Wildlife Federation encourages leather production free from this link. She concluded: watch this space. In fact the website is definitely worth watching for environmentally aware fashionistas.
Husband Colin Firth discusses eco-guilt and his love of gadgets in 'View from the naughty step.' "I am not seduced by all gadgets. I believe that I may have, for example, one of the oldest television sets in the western world. I just have no interest in acquiring a new one. But I should also come clean. In common with millions of other technology consumers I have been seduced by one particular brand - yes, the one with a fruit related logo . . . It's not wrong to want beautiful things. On one level these gadgets and access to them are a real joy of contemporary life. Unfortunately there's a very ugly by-product." [Although he does not get round to telling us what that is - Ed]
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 MODERN DESIGN AT T W GAZE
The sale on Saturday of Modern Design at Gaze in Diss comprises of 640 lots of furniture including Herman Miller and Eames chairs, lighting, artworks, pottery and art glass. James Bassam is the expert in charge.
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 RYSBRACK, CARPENTER, AND PIRANESI AT SUMMERS PLACE AUCTIONS
The upcoming auction at Summers Place in Billingshurst comprising of a sealed bid and live sale on 18th and 20th October features carved stone pieces by Michael Rysbrack, lead statuary by Andrew Carpenter and an urn by the workshops of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, among an array of lots of garden ornament, architectural antiques, modern sculpture and, no doubt, fossils.
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 SALVO FAIR 2012 POSSIBLE CHANGE OF VENUE
For many years now, Salvo Fair has been held once a year at the end of June in the deer park at Knebworth House. The 22nd to 24th June were the potential dates arranged for Salvo 2012 at the end of this years event. Salvo have been notified that Knebworth has taken a booking for a big music concert on those dates. If the Fair is to stay at Knebworth the date will need to be changed to six weeks before or after.
Salvo has been investigating the possibility of using Stubbings House as an alternative venue. Stubbings House is a Grade II listed, part Georgian, part Victorian mansion house, famous for being the home to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands during WW2. It is located near Maidenhead, very close to the A404, between the M4 and M40 in Berkshire. The eighty acre estate includes an extensive nursery, coffee shop, executive offices and three vast fields, that are suitable for large outdoor events.
Ruby Hazael, Salvo Fair organiser, said, "The date of the Salvo Fair is a more important factor than its specific location, provided it is near London, for three reasons. Firstly, the trade is usually too busy in their yards and showrooms during every weekend in May to want to commit to the Salvo Fair. Secondly the end of June is usually fairly good weather for an outdoor event and a better bet than mid-May. And thirdly, Arthur Swallow has proposed another salvage fair in the north of England in mid-May which we would be very reluctant to clash with. So we feel it is fairer to the trade to use another venue next year where we can stick to the proposed Salvo Fair dates of 22nd - 24th June 2012."
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 ART LIVES LIFE DIES
In the Salvo directory under Yapton Metal Co the entry includes the words 'bronze casting courses for the amateur'. I had half forgotten that I had posted that. It's sort of from a half forgotten time…well almost a half forgotten time - we could say a three fifths forgotten time but I am not good at maths and cannot quite judge the time-scale and it was, after all, a somewhat poetic remark. I was good at English lit. and language and pretty good at art and biology but my maths dyslexia messed up my plans to go to university to study zoology - which is why I started working at this damn yard anyway……..!
I have worked for my father for most of my life. My father is dead but I still work for him in a manner of speaking - a mostly poetical manner of speaking. When he died, seven years ago, I put an advert under Deaths in The Times - which neither he nor I ever read (he read the Daily Express and in the past admired those bigots John Junor and Jean Rook!) " A bit pretentious, son" I could hear him say afterwards with regard to The Times ad and I cannot deny it but it came into my head at that time and it seemed right and I did it.
I actually ran the yard onwards from 1988 when he caught a cold that 'went to his chest' according to my mother after I'd asked 'where's dad? When's he coming back? Where IS he?'. He just did not come back to work again. He would then have been seventy years old. He just stayed at home, at Laurels, in Barnham with my mother. It was almost unbelievable to me. He just left me to it without a word one way or the other. He just left. He phoned when he was eventually better and I asked him how he was. He gave the stock answer that he always did: "Well, actually, not too good son. Not too good". I sighed deeply. From then on good, bad or indifferent, I was in the driving seat.,
Nineteen eighty eight was the same year I submitted a sculpture to the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and more importantly it was accepted. The bronze sculpture - cast by myself here at Yapton Metal Company using new LG4 spec. bronze ingot - was entitled 'God's Front Door' and stood fourteen inches high' It was, apparently, the smallest sculpture the Academy had ever had submitted - excluding maquettes of course. The piece depicted a battered staircase without sides ascending to a near derelict door frame within which a battered and semi-ruined four panelled front door lay inwardly half-open. On the stairs below lay two discarded slippers.
I put a 'not for sale' tag on 'God's Front Door' for display at the RA for reasons now that baffle me and continued at the yard concerned and perplexed by my new (un-announced or mutually unrecognised status) but doing my best and trying to remember and adhere to what my old man had taught me. Then things started to happen. The West Sussex Gazette led that Thursday with 'Sussex Scrap Metal Merchant at the Royal Academy' the Evening Argus followed that evening. The Bombay Herald, Auckland Times and a minor mountain of journalists contacted me the following day with regard to the featured bronze and on Friday night I made the local TV news. On the Sunday William Feaver, art critic on The Sunday Observer basically said there was nothing any good in the RA Summer Exhibition that year except for the work of Dhuvra Mistry and me!
In August about four weeks into the Summer Exhibition I received a phone call one Saturday morning at the yard.
"Hallow? I have a call frahm Noo York for a Mister Peeder Jownes", the operator announced in a nasally voice identical to those on American TV shows. I was busy and slightly impatient but intrigued - we do not ever get calls from the US.
My mother used to receive a call every year on her birthday from Judge Marvin Goldman who had met my parents in the days when my dad Cliff, then a young man, published his jazz magazine 'Hot Discography' and Marvin - a young attorney, had been a subscriber, fellow jazz enthusiast and subsequent lifelong friend. Inevitably on my mother's birthday while celebrating with her we would await the phone call which always arrived between 10.00 and 11.00 pm. She would chat to Marvin and then Cliff would talk too,
" Hallo Marv. How are you, old chap?" He always said that. On my mother's seventy-third birthday the call did not come and it never came again.
I had Mr Salt in from Lancing just arrive at the yard with his usual two hundredweight of brass of which nearly always three quarters was bronze which was worth a good bit more but Mr Salt was either unaware or uncaring of this fact but dreamy-literature-natural history-art-based-scrap metal donko though I was, I did know what was what when it came to metal and if Mr Salt said he had scrap brass to sell I was not going to educate him. ( Mr S worked for the Water Board and much of their old fittings were of either gun metal or phosphor bronze.)
I took the call.
"Halloww? Iz zat Meester Peeter Chones?" The elderly male voice on the other end was thickly Germanic.
"Er! yes, it is. Can I help you?" I half anxiously watched Mr Salt who seemed quite happy rubbing the ears of Marjory the Alsatian guard dog his brass/bronze on the scales waiting to be weighed.
"My vife ant I vere at ze Woyal Akademy and saw your werk zere - Gott's Front Door and my vife liked it vary much…"
I gasped slightly!
"It zayz zat it iz not vor zale but I vundered if you might gonsider selling it to me?"
Good God! I thought. Things are a bit tight. I wondered if it might be worth five hundred pounds?
"I have bin asked by my vife to persuade you to zell it to me". Crikey! Seven hundred and fifty pounds? "Your verk is qvite bewdiful". Lordy! It has got to be a thousand pounds hearing that!
"Ah! Well, um, yes!" I stuttered into the mouthpiece of the phone, "of course I, er, could sell it!" I wondered if he might go to fifteen hundred? It might be worth that? Mr Salt glanced at me fixed to the phone.
"Ze qvestchun of gorse iz how much vood you like for ze verk?" Now half sweating with excitement I tried to take deep breaths. Maybe he'd go to two thousand?
"Well, um..I hadn't really considered a value for er, the uh piece having it up at not for sale, as it were" I stammered, but trying to sound nonchalant about the whole thing at the same time, hence the use of the word 'piece' - it sounded professional! I was groping for a figure that he would feel was 'appropriate' for my work of art but I didn't want to scare him off either. It obviously was not worth say £20,000 but equally so £2,000 might be too cheap for "God's Front Door' that my mysterious caller so obviously rated. Up until now the story of my little bronze had been published in papers all over the place including unlikely oneslike Chat magazine. It did not make the national news but locally BBC and ITV had run coverage on it filming people's reactions to the sculpture at the RA and interviewing me at the yard. It was universally liked and somewhat acclaimed.
"May I ask your name? And please call me Peter" I said then held my hand over the mouthpiece and called to Mr Salt telling him I would not be much longer. He smiled affably and said he was not in a rush.
"My apjekt apologeez Beeter, I am qvite vorgetting my mannerz in my exzitement at ze pozzible purchase of your vunderful skulpture (God! It's got to be £3,000!) my name is Zeller, Steven Zeller" I wondered if that was Seller but decided to opt for the christian name as that was not open to interpretation.
"Stephen," I tried the name out immediately, "what do you think about £7,000?" It's a mystical number and I sort of blurted it out.
"Mmm! Well, I muzz zay Beeter, I zink that'z juss a leedle bid doo much, luvly zo yor peutivful verk undowtiddly unt vizzout qvestchin iz! Itz juss a leedle bid doo mush!". A 'little too much'! My goodness! Only a little!
Mr Salt was watching me now. Closely, with an off-centre smile on his off-centre face…
"Ok, then Steven", I whammed in rashly and I suppose, boldly! " Let's say £5,500 and you have a deal?"
There was not the hint of a pause at the other end. I sent the words by voice, Steven received the words by hearing and instantaneously he registered:
"I ackree Beeter, I yam very happy wiz zizz figger! Crikey! Five and a half thousand pounds! What a hoot!
"My vife vill bee derlighted, Beeter! Your skulpture vill sit betveen a Peekasso I have unt a Giocometti. It vill be in good company!" he chuckled, "You ar a very talented ardist Beeter I vood like very mush to meed yoo." He hesitated then said, " Maybe you vood gare to bring ze sculpture over do New Yorg - at my eggspenz of gorse - unt at yor gonvenienze? Kom unt be my gezt? Zink aboud id. I vill bee in duch."
Two years later I got into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition again with a sculpture ten times the size of 'God's Front Door' entitled 'Running Repairs at Babylon'. I put a price of £4,000 on it and it did not sell. I have it still today. Despite numerous submissions I have not been accepted by the RA since.
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 'FOUR ROOMS' SEEKS ICONIC BEAUTIFUL OR GROTESQUE FOR NEXT SERIES
Talkback Thames, the production company behind Channel Four's adult antiques game show, 'Four Rooms', is looking for suitable items for inclusion in the next series featuring Andrew Lamberty, Jeff Salmon, Emma Hawkins and Gordon Watson.
The series features four of Britain's top dealers in art, antiques and collectibles who wait in four separate rooms, each bidding to spend their own money if the right item comes through their door. From memorabilia to a mummified mermaid, art to antiques, members of the public have come to sell their prized possessions hoping to walk away with a life-changing amount of money. But to do so, they have to work out when to sell and when to see the next dealer, because once they leave the room the offer is off the table for good.
In a gripping game of risk, ambition, and sometimes plain delusion, the sellers give everything they have got to persuade the dealers that their treasure is the real deal, while the dealers have to figure out what the real value of the item is. This test of nerves dashes some hopes, but for others, leads to a bigger win than they could have ever of dreamt of.
Talkback writes: 'Four Rooms provides an insight into the compelling world of how deals are struck, as well as fascinating information and history about a dazzling and surprising array of objects.'
Tel 020 7861 8499 for more info.
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 RETROUVIUS IN CUPOLA COUP FOR SALVAGE LOVERS TIM BURTON AND HELENA BONHAM CARTER
A planning application for a reclaimed brick link building surmounted by a nineteenth century 17ft high salvaged Tudorbethan lead-clad timber cupola has been approved by Camden Council on behalf of Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter to join their two Belsize Park homes together.
Mark Wilding of Building Design magazine wrote that architectural salvage and design business Retrouvius had secured planning permission for extensive works to the adjacent houses, with a link at first floor level by a walkway supported by cast iron pillars, and featuring a 19th century timber and lead cupola, and the demolition of 1960s elements of the houses, including a glass-encased staircase and a conservatory. A two-storey extension is planned to replace the demolished section with a structure using salvaged red stock brick, timber windows and doors and timber cladding. Camden councillors voted to approve the proposals in line with planning officers' recommendations.
Before the go ahead had been given, Dan Carrier, of Camden New Journal, wrote that Tim Burton, best known for the quirky look and feel of his films, and their trademark set designs wanted to create a magical, mystery wonderland to call his own. The director who lived in Belsize Park in a converted mews studio with his actor partner, Helena Bonham Carter, had asked Camden Council for permission to demolish much of the home and replace it with a new extension. And to do so, he planned to use reclaimed bricks and historic, salvaged features - including a rooftop cupola complete with weathervane, dating from the turn of the 19th century. The council's report stated: 'The cupola will be a small-scale, somewhat quirky element.' Designs seen by the New Journal showed Burton wanted to take away a section of the house built in the 1960s - which his architects said was "dilapidated" - and replace it with a building of a similar size, using reclaimed red bricks, so popular in the Gothic revival period of the 1800s, and old timber and iron work. The application was made in the director's name, but his partner lived next door to him and the couple have knocked a door in their adjoining walls so the two homes were essentially one. The couple's co-joined houses date from the mid-19th century and were originally built to provide low-cost housing and studios to artists and craftsmen in the Belsize area. But the house the director bought next door to his English girlfriend had been radically changed in the 1960s: the design included a glass-encased staircase on the outside of the home. This will be lost now that the plans have been given the go ahead. In a report to the planning committee, council officers said the plans were for 'substantial demolition' but added that most of the original studio's fabric would be saved. Architectural salvage firm Retrouvious have been asked to oversee the work. The company declined to speak to the New Journal, but their website stated that they have done work that is both 'architectural and decorative... covering dates of building from the 15th century to now. We always try to incorporate some quantity of salvaged material, which is not always easy to spot as it is usually treated with a contemporary language.' Retrouvious add that they gather house trinkets and features from such as cupboards from the entomology department at the Natural History Museum, and fossil limestone after Heathrow airport's Terminal Two was demolished.
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 VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE DEALER FOR NATIONAL ANTIQUES WEEK
Do you have a favourite dealer that you love to visit when it comes to buying old items for your home and garden? Is there a dealer who knows what architectural salvage, decorative or garden antiques, retro and modern vintage, you are looking for and phones you to tell you when he or she has something in which fits the bill?
Or perhaps there's a saleroom you haunt on a regular basis (such as TW Gaze, Summers Place or Wellers) - knowing that you're going to come away with a treasure after an afternoon's entertainment thanks to the auctioneer.
The organisers of National Antiques Week think these unsung heroes deserve to be recognised and want to know all about your favourite shops and salerooms and what makes them so great. Is it the customer service, the expertise, the prices or the ambience that sets a place apart?
Voters could win:
A stay at the Royal Crescent Hotel, Bath, worth £375
BADA antiques vouchers worth £200
Revival iSTREAM radio from Roberts worth £200
Pedlars framed Routemaster destination blind worth £225
LAPADA antiques vouchers worth £200
A stay at The Swan, Lavenham, Suffolk, worth over £300
A stunning Interflora flower arrangement worth £250
Miller's antiques books worth over £200
Linea by Portmeiron 'Blue Laurel' porcelain dinnerware set worth over £200
Subscription to Antiques Trade Gazette worth over £200
The first winner drawn at random will have their pick of the prizes; the second winner can choose from the remainder and so on until all the prizes have been accounted for.
The winning shops will be announced by Kirstie Allsopp at the Bath Decorative Antiques Fair on 8th March 2012.
Entrants can nominate one establishment in each category:
Best antiques shop - any general antiques shop no matter how big or small
Best antiques centre - any establishment shared by several dealers
Best specialist shop - any shop with a particular speciality eg glass; silver; samplers; textiles; early oak.
Best mid-century/vintage shop - any shop that specialises in mid-century/post-war furniture/fashion/homewares etc
Best auction house - any UK saleroom
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 ANYA HINDMARCH USES SALVAGED CABINETS FOR LONDON FASHION WEEK DISPLAY
Anya Hindmarch, the celebrated designer of handbags, leather accesories, shoes and clothing thrilled London Fashion Week when she adopted the long mothballed Strand tube station and made it her own on 19th - 20th September.
Central to the display was a brace of mahogany and bronze cabinets which Lassco salvaged from The National Maritime Museum. Anya and her team artfully filled them to the gunnels. The Deco styling of the cabinets seemed to make the them look completely at home in the old tube station.
See more photos of Anya's wonderful "Lost and Found" tube kiosk on her Facebook page.
Lassco bought 135 of the National Maritime Museum cabinets (only about 60 left now) and we have sold them to buyers in USA, Belgium, Japan, Scotland and Hackney. They have been put to all kinds of uses. Each was made to house a specific model boat from the national collection at the Museum's inception in 1937. You may have seen a previous Lassco eNewsletter where they were used to display food sculptures at this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition launch party.
It is not the first time that The Strand tube station (more commonly known as The Aldwych until it was closed in 1994) has found stuff from museums being carted in. The platform and tunnels were used for the storage and protection of numerous artifacts from various public galleries during both World Wars.
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MASCO WALCOT - WHAT A WAY TO GO!
Masco Walcot Architectural salvage and Statuary sale
Minchinhampton,Saturday , 24th September 2011.
Steve Tomlin and Debbie Kedge's Masco site has always been the finest example of a quintessentialy English salvage yard blending ample supplies of base reclaimed building materials with some of the most spectacular architectural pieces to be seen anywhere. It has been a pleasure to visit with a guaranteed warm,energetic welcome combined with boundless enthusiasm for the industry. The closure of the yard will be a blow to all.
As was to be expected, the clearance auction was quite an event. Widely advertised and publicised, the whole world and his dog turned up. Private buyers, developers and the trade were all heavily represented. Dealers from Wales, Northern Ireland, Cumbria, East Anglia ,the Midlands and locally were to be seen with bulging pockets, ready to spend. Recession? What recession?
Two auctions ran consecutively.Building materials in the main showroom and architectural pieces in a marquee. The sense of occasion was intensified with a champagne reception and rousing words of introduction spoken from the heart by Steve himself. The moment Glen Snelgar, ace auctioneer from Wellers, sold the first lot the race was on.Stone troughs were immediately selling for well above top estimate, a 32" dia. granite round trough fetching £600 against a top estimate of £120 . This was repeated throughout the sale much to the dismay of the trade, who hoping to pick up some bargains, looked on in dismay, slightly shell shocked.
Extraordinary prices were reached in the battle for internal Cotswold stone flags which fetched £280 per sq yard , plus vat and buyers premium that equates to £440 per sq metre. Forest of Dean flagstones weren't far behind. The Lloyds of London marble cladding was fetching up to £1,000 pallet against top estimate of £120. and there were 50 pallets of the stuff! Steve could be seen smiling. In the other sale room pallets of Ashlar limestone were fetching £220 (est £120).
Of the "big ticket" items the Dorchester Hotel staircase sold for £12,500 (top est £8000) after fierce bidding in the room. The Ollerton Foundry gazebo went for £5,500 (est. £1500), the Charterhouse Entrance fetched a mid estimate £12,500 . One of the few failures was the Portland Stone Rotunda which was bought in at £25,000. Low to mid estimate prices were to be seen on a lot of the doors and fireplaces. Other attention grabbers: a cast iron statue of Mercury £2100 (est £600), Monet style bridge £5,000 (est £2500), carved statue of a shepherd boy £1,600 (est £500) and on and on.
Wellers worked the room, commission bids, the phones and the internet hard and built up quite a banter with the audience, for that is what it was. Pure theatre. Just after 6.00pm as darkness descended on the marquee, the sale was moved into main showroom. With a typical Masco flourish, the wine was broken out to keep the still substantial crowd happy. At this point fair mention should be made of the catering facilities. The bacon butty from the catering wagon is accepted auction fair. Not at Masco.Oh no. Venison and Wild Boar hot dogs! Pheasant and partridge burgers! Now that is style. As were the loos. Veneered panelling, piped music and a choice of hand lotions. Oh yes.
The auction finished at 8.30 pm., with many still in the room all in good humour for it had been an exciting and entertaining day with a total not far short of £1m. The trade went away still with slightly diminished bulging pockets but cheered by the fact that there is still some life in the market place. Let's hope the enthusiasm is contagious .
Speaking after the sale, Tomlin commented " I was overwhelmed by the way it went and delighted and surprised to see so many familiar faces turning out. Where were they when we needed them the over the last two barren years?" A point on which much of the trade would concur. "I intend to devote myself to campaigning for better recognition of the reclamation trade both from local and national bodies and to lecturing on environmental sustainability with the aim of re-using more reclaimed building materials and sending less to the crusher and land fill." Debbie hopes to continue in architectural salvage.
So, a mammoth task completed and an era ended in a blaze of glory. What a way to go!
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 MATERIALS LIBRARY OPENS NEW GALLERY
SCIN, pronounced 'skin', sources, advises, sells and creates materials for surfaces on the inside and outside of buildings. Set up by two architects, Annabelle Filer and Graham Cox, SCIN has a showroom in Bermondsey Street and a new gallery in Old Street.
The gallery opened recently with a five day exhibition showcasing innovative materials in art and design, including a collage of the Queens head made from 8,100 squares of folded coloured felt. Also on show are cement floors and 3D art acoustic tiles.
One of the materials created by SCIN is burnished reclaimed wood. Pine taken from old buildings is given a new finish by being 'raked and sculpted'. The boards come in 10ins to 14ins widths, and random lengths between 2ft and 14ft.
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 STOCK UP ON STOVES AND CAULDRONS AT GAZE THIS WEEKEND
Gaze Rural and Donestic Bygones sale will be held on Saturday at Diss Auction Rooms. The 863 lot sale will include the normal farming equipment, garden tools, enamel advertising signs, buckets, troughs, tanks, bicycles, apple and chitting crates.
Get prepared for winter with one of a selection of ranges and stoves for sale. Be the best equipped witch for Halloween with an old cauldron!
The sale starts at 10am on Saturday 1st October. Contact Carl Willows on 01379 650 306.
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 DREW PRITCHARD AT BATTERSEA DECORATIVE
Among the hordes of decorative antique dealers at the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair at Battersea, on until Sunday, is architectural salvage, antique garden and antique stained glass specialist Drew Pritchard whose stand is pictured above.
Also in attendance is Guy Trench of Antique By Design with his quirky take on recrafted lighting, water tank tables and late-breaking nouveauties.
See the link for more info about this fair which is open:
Wednesday 28th: 11am - 8pm
Thursday 29th: 11am - 8pm
Friday 30th: 11am - 7pm
Saturday 1st: 11am - 7pm
Sunday 2nd: 11am - 6pm
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CONCERNS RAISED OVER UK GREEN DEAL INITIATIVE
A group of conservationists have warned England's Energy Secretary Chris Huhne that the Green Deal, the Government's energy efficiency initiative, risks human health and the fabric of older buildings.
The coalition of organisations and individuals has written to Huhne and The Times pointing out that the drive to promote the complete thermal upgrading of pre-1919 buildings could result in expensive future problems for both building fabric and human health.
The coalition includes the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the National Trust, the Victorian Society, Kevin McCloud and the Institute for Historic Building Conservation.
The letter to the Times (copied to The Rt Hon Chris Huhne MP, Secretary of State Department for Energy and Climate Change) stated:
'We are seriously concerned that the drive to promote the complete thermal upgrading of pre 1919 buildings could be storing up expensive future problems for both building fabric and human health. Inappropriate forms of insulation and the sealing up of interiors take little account of the fact that these buildings, which number millions, perform differently from modern ones and need to breathe. They are likely to require a different approach, in particular over the movement of moisture within them.
While we strongly support the aim of reducing carbon emissions from the nation's building stock, we call on the Government to involve bodies knowledgeable about old buildings in research and planning for the Green Deal. Many of these bodies already have helpful research to contribute but to date have not been called on to do so.
Yours faithfully
David Heath, Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
Kevin McCloud
Sarah Staniforth, National Trust
Janet Gough, Church of England
Loyd Grossman, Churches Conservation Trust
Dr Paul Baker, Glasgow Caledonian University
Mike Brown, Institute of Historic Building Conservation
Paul Everall, Local Authority Building Control
Jon Avent, Institution of Structural Engineers
Francesca Berriman, Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists
Ranyl Rhydwen, Centre for Alternative Technology
Gary Newman, Alliance for Sustainable Building Products
Dr Ian Dungavell, The Victorian Society
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 FANTASTIC RESULT AT HALF MILLION POUND MASCO SALE
Glen Snelgar of Wellers Auctioneers was still reeling from an epic 2,500 lot one-day sale at Masco in Gloucestershire, selling over 90 per cent of lots which grossed over £500,000.
"Three days after the sale, the adrenalin is still pulsing through my veins. We had a fantastic day. A combination of factors led to this fantastic result: a wonderful selection of stock, a very good area to sell it in, a solid public relations campaign backed up with a quality catalogue and the live internet auction interfaces that we introduced to the sale.
"This led to over 600 mainly private registered buyers and over 1000 commission and phone bids. We underestimated our selling speed only accomplishing 95 lots per hour rather than the 125 we expected to do. This meant we did not finish the auction until
eight o'clock at night, at which stage we still managed to maintain a captive audience who
watched the final lot of the day an uncatalogued run of oak panelling change
hands for £6,600.
"Generally, all garden antiques stormed away, as did the decorative items and
quality reclaimed materials. The trade for chimneypieces and fireplaces felt a
little disappointing but maybe my expectations for these was a little high. Most of the unsold lots were small quantities of the more run of the mill reclaimed materials perhaps indicating a lack of volume to complete a project. Sadly the Portland stone Rotunda also failed to change hands.
"The lot that attracted the most condition reports and verbal enquiries was strangely enough a blue painted plan chest which sold for £210. Anything which had agricultural history and rust also did very well including old sandstone sharpening wheels, milk churns, water and feed troughs, mangers, hayracks and weigh scales," Mr Snelgar said.
Highlights of the sale included a Victorian wrought iron roof light £3,000, limestone sundial £2,200, composition stone pond surround £4,750, Indonesian statue of Dewi Sri £4,100, the Portland stone Charterhouse entrance £16,500, natural stone table on Roman Hypocaust base £6,050, driveway gates to £5,250, pair of stone obelisks £8,050, 30 square yards of Forest of Dean flagstones £7,000, 25 yards of Cotswold stone interior flagstones £8,600, limestone table £4,750, Dorchester Hotel marble to £170 per square yard, Portland stone facade £13,200, Monet style bridge £6,600, pair of domed top oak doors £3,400, Breche Violetta marble chimney piece £4,900, the Dorchester Hotel balustrade £17,200, British Museum walnut library table £5,950, restored cast iron roll top bath £2,350 and Model Village Cottages to £725 (all prices include vat and
premium).
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 LASSCO FLOORING MOVES TO BERMONDSEY
Lassco's flooring department is now based at Ropewalk, our site in Bermondsey. It handily combines our flooring storage and showroom all in one spot to make less confusion over where to go. Ropewalk is open Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm, Saturday 10am -5pm and Nick Newman our wood guru is the man to ring with any queries on 0207 394 8061.
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 FAKE GUY FAWKES BONFIRE FINES FOR DEVON SKIP BOSS
Roger Sparling, the owner of a Devon waste recycling company has been ordered to pay fines and costs of £6,302 after the illegal disposal of waste. He was approached on 5th November 2010 by environment agency officers at the scene of a forty foot bonfire.
The fire had been reported by a member of the public who thought that there was plastic or rubber in it. Sparling said the bonfire was for his family to celebrate Guy Fawkes night. Remnants of the fire contained tyres, a mattress, tin cans and melted glass.
An Environment Agency spokesperson commented, "There is nothing wrong with burning clean wood on bonfire night, but when November fifth is used as an excuse to get rid of unwanted waste materials that have the potential to cause harm to human health and the environment, we won't hesitate to prosecute."
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 CUMBRIA BRIDGE REBUILD TO REUSE STONE
Northside Bridge in Workington, which was washed away in the floods of November 2009, is due to be replaced. The Department of Transport agreed £11.17m towards the project.
The new 152 metre bridge will be clad in sandstone. Where possible reclaimed stone from the original bridge will be used. The rebuild will take ten months.
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 SALVAGED STONE REPAIRS FOR SOUTH YORKSHIRE CASTLE
The battlements of Boston Castle are being repaired using salvaged stone as part of a new £1.2m restoration project.
With funding from Heritage Lottery fund and Rotherham Borough Council, the project will also incorporate a new entrance foyer, allowing access to different levels of the castle.
The 1775 castle is part of Boston Park and is the former shooting lodge of Thomas Howard, Earl of Effingham.
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 A STRANGER AND A FIREBACK
A Stranger and a Fireback
The thing about dealing with the public is that you never know who you are talking to or dealing with. A dustman or an earl, a thief or a bishop they are all to an extent unidentifiable. Speech is a key but it is by no means infallible.
Some years ago I bought a stone sink that came out of a chimney breast in a house in South Terrace, Littlehampton. The terrace was built in the 1860s. The builders at the time had either run out of bricks or were just using reclaimed material at hand but either way they embedded the stone sink into the breast in place of bricks. The owners of the house at the time I am speaking of were removing the chimney altogether and as such called Yapton Metal Co and asked if we would be interested in the bricks and the sink. We were and bought the lot. The sink still had plaster and wall paper adhering to it as it lay in the yard. It was a jolly nice old sink I remember thinking.
A couple of weeks later a chap came into the yard and I found him examining the sink with great interest. I am always interested in other people's interests and in particular when they are interested in things that either interest me or in the case of business have turned up at the yard. I engaged him in conversation and he told me that he worked at the British Museum in the British Archaeology department and did I know that the sink there before us both was in fact 12th century? He told me he could tell by the tooling on the underside. I was intrigued, delighted and quite proud of this fact. Stone sinks then as now are not the fastest of sellers to be honest and I had not paid an awful lot for it but still it was an historical artefact and pre-dated Chaucer. He was a genial, pleasantly dressed, likeable man in probably his late thirties. We chatted away for a while until he made his goodbyes and left. Three days later the sink was stolen!
Coincidence? I'm certain it was not. Did the likeable man from the BM steal it? I don't know. Maybe he had it stolen to protect it? I don't know. All I do know is that we never saw it again. As I say, you never know who you are talking to.
Last summer I had a man come in to the yard who looked around and who then took a great interest in my collection of cast iron firebacks - I have about thirty or so at the moment. He was he told me, writing the definitive work on English firebacks and his name was Jeremy Hodgkinson and he lived in Crawley. He looked mine over while telling me about the fine collection in Anne of Cleves house in Lewes that had aided his research so much. He told many anecdotes about the research for his book and was generally fascinating. He further enlightened me on the difference between a fireback and a stove plate of which I have three. Some stove plates have flanged edges and were in fact sides of cast iron stoves with decoration on them that when dismantled or scrapped - once the innards were worn out - were used as firebacks. Another form of plate was used in what is now Belgium and the adjoining area of France and Germany, in the regions known as Wallonia and Lorraine. Here decorated cast iron plates identical to firebacks were used as partitions behind fireplaces to serve as radiators of heat into an adjoining room. They were known in France as taques de foyer and in Germany as takenplatten. Many of these found their way to Britain.
Jeremy told me of the similarity between firebacks and cast iron grave slabs which are found in many churches in the Weald and a few in the west Midlands. He says that probably the earliest graveslab made of cast iron is to be found in the parish church at Burwash in East Sussex. Anyway all of my firebacks and my three fireplates with one English exception were from the continent. The one exception was probably, he thought, of Wealden origin "of 1632 with the initials formed in a monogram and the date stamp over-pressed". He asked me if he could photograph it and include it in his book. I asked him if in return I might receive a copy of the book and rather to my astonishment he agreed. I duly received the book last October when it was published with the picture of my fireback on page 123. The book was retailing at £24.99 and I was delighted to have a copy with a covering letter outlining our bargain. In all honesty I would have let him have the picture for nothing but it goes to show nothing ventured nothing gained eh?
I have a large three and a half hundredweight fireback with a crack in it or tear as I describe it. I showed it to Jeremy who said it was German and asked if he thought my deduction about how the crack formed was correct. I described a day when the mould for this fireback in my possession was ready to receive the molten iron from the blast furnace. The mould is open backed with the decorative side downwards in the casting sand. (It is the back and edge of a fireback that tells the story: if you see angle-grinder marks you know it's modern. Sharp edges, uniform surfaces all tell of efficient modern production irrespective of how 'old' the front looks.) The back of my fireback was literally in a pitiful state pockmarked with tiny craters, runnels and a thousand imperfections. I know exactly what happened that day because something similar happened to me when I was casting art bronzes in the yard back in the 80s and 90s.
As the metal flowed that day in 1650, from the blast furnace to the moulds of which there would have been several waiting to be cast, the sky darkened ominously and black, bloated rain clouds gathered over head. The plug of the furnace is opened with a bott stick (I think it is called) and when the metal is pouring the caster wants to get all the metal into all the moulds as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Almost as soon as the mould with my fireback in was full of white hot metal the rain started. It was not just any old rain it was torrential. It may even have been hail. As it hit the back of the fireback which was rapidly cooling the fat drops of rain or hail smashed onto the hot metal and it must have hissed like five hundred geese and steamed like an old locomotive! The rain/hail created little miniature chilled areas and the hot molten metal now rapidly cooling and contracting beneath the setting skin of metal collapsed in a thousand or more mini- craters. This continued through the duration of the setting, chilling metal.
Two hundred years later the fire back started to tear and crack through the expansion and contraction caused through its use and the imperfections inherent in the metal caused through that days weather when it was created.
Jeremy liked the story. He didn't know if my scenario was correct or not, but it is.
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 MASCO'S 1,590 LOT SALE THIS WEEKEND
This Saturday, Wellers Auctioneers are carrying out the sale of stock at Minchinhampton Architectural, near Stroud, Gloucestershire. Two auctions will take place. The first auction is at 10am and consists of 952 lots of fine architectural and garden antiques. The second auction is at 10.30am and consists of 638 lots of palletised materials, chimney pots, bathroom and sanitaryware and architectural fittings.
There will be plenty for everyone with items for sale ranging from troughs, planters, staddle stones, cast iron baths, columns, radiators, flagstones and timber flooring to two lots of panelling from the Sri Lankan embassy in Swiss Cottage, London, estimated at £5,000 to £8,000 each, a 1930's walnut veneer table from the British Library estimated at £3,000 to £5,000 and a portland stone and bronze entranceway from London's Debeers Diamond Trading Company, estimated at £12,000 to £15,000.
Saturday 24th September from 10am. On the premises at:
The MASCo WALCOT Yard
Cirencester Road,
Aston Down,
Stroud,
Gloucestershire,
GL6 8PE
Viewing:
Saturday 17th September 10:00am to 4:00pm
Wednesday 21st September 9:00am to 7:00pm
Thursday 22nd September 9:00am to 7:00pm
Friday 23rd September 9:00am to 7:00pm
Day of Sale from 8:00am
or by appointment
Online catalogue available now on Wellers website.
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 SALVO FAIR 2011 COMPETITION WINNERS
A questionnaire was printed in this years Salvo Fair guide. Those who filled it in were entered into a draw to win a bottle of champagne and ten pairs of tickets for Salvo Fair 2012.
The winner of the champagne was Sarah D from London SE27. At the beginning of August she received an organic bottle of Brut la Cuvée Blanche. This champagne comes from Bruno Michel and his family who farm organically in the sud-Epernay sub region of Champagne.
A pair of Salvo Fair tickets will be sent out in Spring 2012 to the following ten people:
Ali P, Salisbury SP1
Christine R, Stevenage SG1
Jane T, Carmarthen SA33
Debi C, Southampton SO30
Mandy R, Windermere LA23
Richard T, London N19
Lisa N, Gilston CM20
S Waller, Rampton CB24
B Bailey, London W9
J Burton, Tur Langton LE8
Salvo Fair will be held on 22nd - 24th June 2012 at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire.
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 LONDON TEMPORARY CINEMA BUILT FROM RECLAIMED MATERIALS
In June underneath a flyover in Hackney, and on the banks of a canal, a temporary cinema was born. The cinema has been showing films outdoors all through the summer. The facade of the cinema was build from reclaimed timber and bricks, with a scaffold and rope infrastructure.
The structure was put together by a team of volunteer designers, architects and builders organised by Assemble CIC, in conjunction with CREATE 2011 and The Barbican Art Gallery.
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