Jim Drummond Collection - Art and Object, May2nd 2009

Jim Drummonds collection is up for auction at Art and Object..May 2nd.

And here is the link to the catalogue....

http://www.artandobject.co.nz/Auctions/Details/ID/48

which will be available from April the 7th.

It's April 7th ...... and I don't see the catalogue up yet..... maybe tomorrow?

1900 lots !!
Including 300 uncatalogued box lots from Drummond's shop stock.... on Sat morning
864 lots from stock in trade from Drummond's.... on Sun 10 -3.30pm

Part 1 auctioned on Sat 12 - 3pm lots 1 to 299 in the catalogue
Part 2 auctioned on Sun 12 - 3.30 to 5pm lots 1765 -1900 in the catalogue.

What an amazing collection of kiwiana Jim has....
Heaps of Crown Lynn - Heaps of Titian - Studio pottery - Crum - Clarke's [sic] - Temuka - Maori carvings -
the list just goes on and on and on!

There's now a 27 page pdf catalogue online - interesting reading - treacle glazes, dribble glazes, "Shufflebotham", haven't found the "Clarke's" yet.

Clarke ...... lots 1779 and 1781
Wow that is the whole two days auction listings.... fantastic!!

An article in the New Zealand Herald about this auction today....

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10569517

I was surprised that there were not as many people that I knew from the past there who collect crown lynn etc. Perhaps maybe they had all put the postal bids in. There were plenty of those. We got there about 8am and managed to find a park right opposite the building. Was peeing down with rain. had a coffee etc while we waited for them to open. The box lots in the basement were up first and i did get a couple of those. They were quite good box lots and some went up to $200-00. I got a box lot of Wentworth ware and Fancy Fayre, and another of interesting c/lynn etc. Will look through that soon. Then the main lot started and I was just blown away with the shapes and colours. I have never seen so much Titian and crown lynn in styles, shapes and colours that I have never seen before. They are not in any of the books. Prices were strong on most of it. I do have it all written down in my catalogue which I can post to you Ev for a look at. I did manage to buy a few things and will take pics of them and send you during the week. Some of it I think very interesting. I would have liked more but had my limitations and will keep looking at OP shops and Garage sales. Have left one postal bid for today. That is 2 crown lynn ginger jars, one blue the other maroon and the blue one has the crown lynn stamp on it. That is the only one in the auction that has that stamp. If I dont get it then the other bidder will have had to play plenty as I have left what I think is quite a hefty bid.

Oh Wow John....... looking forward to seeing pics !!
Brilliant that you put in a bid on the ginger jars ....... GOOD LUCK and let us know how you get on.

Woop woop John won the ginger jar with the Crown Lynn stamp on it