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Live Auction
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Sale Date: |
16 March 2010 10am GMT
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Spring Auction - Antiques & Fine Art Sale |
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40 Station Road West
Canterbury
Kent
CT2 8AN
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14 Mar 1pm-5pm
15 Mar 10am-7pm
16 Mar From 8.30am
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Lots purchased online with the-saleroom.com will attract an additional charge for this service in the sum of 3% of the hammer price plus VAT at the rate imposed.
Faulty Lots: Although the Auctioneers endeavour to mark any faulty lots as (a.f.) or to indicate any restorations, the purchaser is deemed to have inspected all lots carefully and no redress can be made for any items subsequently found to be faulty or restored.
Commission Bids and Telephone Bids: Please ensure that all requests in respect of telephone bidding and commission bids are with us by 6pm on Monday, 15th March, as we cannot guarantee availability of telephone lines or being able to execute bids on the morning of the sale. Acceptance of telephone bidding is at our sole discretion
Lots 49-88: E. & E.J. Rotherham - Collection of Tobacco Jars
Eve and Eric Rotherham lived for over fifty years in the Medway towns where Eric was a school teacher at a Rainham school. They were both keen gardeners and it was whilst visiting a local village fair in search of plants that they purchased their first tobacco jar – thinking that it was an unusual plant pot! Further research stimulated Eric’s interest in tobacco jars and he and Eve went far and wide across the United Kingdom, into France and even North America to seek out unusual items for their collection. They were primarily interested in figural jars made in pottery, principally in Austria/Eastern Europe, at the end of the 19th Century. However, having caught the collecting bug their collection expanded to incorporate jars in a variety of materials and forms. Such was Eric’s interest in the subject that he gave many talks to local societies and groups. They retired to Faversham in 2000 and Eric joined the Society of Tobacco Jar Collectors and started to write a book on the subject which, sadly, was unfinished when he passed away last year.
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