25th Oct, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
Taxidermy: A Cased European Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), circa 1880-1900, a good quality antique full mount adult female, stood atop a dry stump with a Blue tit prey underfoot, enclosed within a later green painted five-glass table display case, 28.5cm by 21cm by 46cm, with CCS information document
Sold for £110
Estimated at £80 - £120
Auction: Antiques & Interiors, 25th Oct, 2024
The Retirement Sale of Victoria Pike, Designer and Maker
After a 54-year career as a designer, maker and fabric dealer, Victoria Pike is offering at auction her residual stock and supplies. With a wealth of colour and pattern, her collection will comprise made-up cushions, bags, aprons, Kimono, shirts, throws, doorstops, Christmas stockings, tablemats and more in vintage and contemporary styles. There will also be a selection of fabric remnants as well as pieces of work-in-progress, with some rough instructions.
The collection will comprise approximately of twenty-five group lots.
Victoria is well known for her textile creations, using colourful and pattern-rich fabrics in unusual combinations. Now living in Leyburn, Victoria previously spent ten years designing and making quilts for Liberty of London in the 1980s and traded in fabric and made-up textiles for twenty years in the legendary Portobello Road in London.
The sale will also include a good selection of affordable traditional art, antiques, silver, jewellery, watches, furniture and more
Viewing
Tuesday 22nd October - Wednesday 23rd October 10am-4pm, Thursday 24th October 10am-5pm, and morning of sale from 7.30am
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