Lot 343 , A New Hall part tea and coffee service, c.1810-15 Newhall,
**A New Hall part tea and coffee service, c.1810-15 Newhall, bat-printed in black and over enamelled, pattern 984
Estimate £150-200
5% Import duty will be charged on the hammer price.
The Beaulieu House Collection, the estate of John Bedford Esq. Removed from St Peter's Port, Guernsey
John Bedford of William Bedford was one of the major dealers in antique furniture in London in the 1970s and for the next 35 years dominated his corner of the trade.
The business was started in the 1960s simply to help his brother William recover from an illness, with a small stall in the Kensington Antiques Hypermarket selling antique glass, while John continued in his role as company secretary at Smith's Industries.
Buying was fitted in at the weekends and evenings by John around other commitments.
After a relatively short time it was found that the furniture used on the stand for display purposes sold more profitably than the glass and a decision was made to take a much larger premises in Upper Street, Islington, and concentrate on period furniture.
John now took up the full-time role of running an antiques business with the skills and approach of a 'true businessman', driving the operation forward into what would become one of the first publicly quoted antiques businesses on the stock exchange.
It operated out of the 15,000sq ft of The Merchants Hall in Islington.
Dealers from across the world would find this often became a one-stop shop for their purchases, allowing them to shorten buying trips to the UK often by weeks.
John was always a kind, cultured and generous man with wide-ranging interests from motor racing to building one of the finest private libraries in the world covering cabinet-makers and furniture designers to the brass-makers of Birmingham.
Please note the photo shows just a small number of the pieces from this set which comprises:
teapot and cover
milk jug
10 ring handled coffee cans
10 bute shaped ring handled tea cups
11 saucers (therefore making 10 trios)
slops bowl
4 large saucer dishes
The teapot has extensive cracks to the base and side, cover good
The milk jug has wear to the gilding on the edge
The slops bowl is good
One of the large saucer dishes has a crack to the rim and all the large saucer dishes have some slight wear to the gilding, interestingly one of the saucer dishes is inscribed with the pattern 984 and also printed in red New Hall in a circle which we have not seen before.
All of the saucers have some wear to the gilding on the rim and some occasional wear to the enamel printed decoration, two of the saucers are badly broken and repaired.
All of the coffee cans have some slight wear to the gilding particularly on the rims
All of the teacups have some wear to the gilding, three of those tea cups have fine cracks to the body and do not ring and one of the tea cups has a shallow splinter chip to the outer edge but does still ring true.
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Sold for £400