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'The Edward V Phillips Collection' Halls Fine Art Auction House in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and West Midlands.
Tuesday 6th November & Wednesday 7th November (Two Day Auction)

IMPORTANT ANTIQUES COLLECTION SELLS FOR £600,000 IN SHREWSBURY

An important single owner collection of antiques and fine art, which belonged to retired corn merchant who collected only the best, has sold for £600,000 at a hugely successful two-day auction at Halls Fine Art in Shropshire.

The auction, conducted on behalf of the executors of Edward V. Phillips, who died last December, featured several important collections, including 18th century drinking glasses.

The first day of the auction Tuesday 6th saw a rare Jacobite 'Amen' glass, one of fewer than 40 known examples in the world, sell for £43,000. The 'Baird of Lennoxlove' Amen glass, made in the 1750s was engraved with two verses of the Jacobite anthem.

Wednesday 7th saw the turn of oak, country and fine furniture, alms dishes and metalware, tapestries, clocks and mirrors. Top price of £18,000 went to a William and Mary osyter laburnum veneeered cabinet on stand.

A large collection of 16th century Nuremberg alms dishes sold for combined total of £29,000 and a dozen Aubusson style tapestries made £9,500.

Early English oak furniture, in particular, was keenly sought after. An oak joint stool made in around 1600 sold for £11,000 and two Elizabethan joined oak coffers made £9,600 and £9,400.

Other leading prices in the fine furniture section from the William and Mary period included £15,000 for a walnut feather banded fold-over side table, £13,000 for an oyster veneered olive wood chest, £12,500 for a laburnum cabinet on stand, £12,000 for a yew wood gate-leg breakfast table and £7,200 for an oyster veneered laburnum chest.

Quality 17th century clocks also performed well, with a walnut and marquetry longcase clock by Daniel Le Count, London making £16,500, an ebony veneered, quarter repeating, hour striking bracket clock by Simon de Charmes, London selling for £13,000 and a walnut and marquetry longcase clock by Joshua Allsop, London fetching £12,500.

Elsewhere in the saleroom, a set of five Victorian graduated imperial grain measures in bell metal made £4,800, a pair of 16th century brass pricket candlesticks and a pair of late 17th century walnut candlestands made £4,200 each and a George I giltwood wall mirror sold for £3,400.

The collector, Mr Phillips, who retired with his wife from the Cotswolds to Llanfair Waterdine, near Knighton, began collecting in the 1970s, selecting only the best pieces for his collection.

Halls' fine art director Jeremy Lamond said it was the most successful auction of an important single owner collection ever held by the company and augured well for the future.

"We are absolutely delighted with the response to this collection from across the UK, Europe and the United States," he added. "It is a testimony to the strength of the auction that so many lots were sold to people who had travelled especially to attend and buy in the saleroom.

"The result shows that there is still strong demand for the best examples in each collecting field and that's exactly what the Edward V. Phillips collection offered.

"This success provides a fantastic platform upon which to build for the future. Given the response to our extensive marketing of this auction, we intend to host similar important collections from the West Midlands and beyond."

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