THE LATEST antique and selected sale at the Auction Rooms, Lostwithiel, again attracted worldwide interest for a wide array of goods totalling some 990 lots.

Silver was again strongly contested. A cased canteen of silver kings pattern cutlery, with 12 place settings, with a Sheffield Hallmark for 1976, sold well at £3,400.

A fine George III twin-handled goblet, embossed with hunting dogs, by John Langlands of Newcastle, dated 1772, sold at £740 to a buyer collector in the room.

An Art Nouveau, silver, twin-handled trophy cup was sold to an absentee bidder for £520.

Jewellery and watches again proved popular, a two-carat diamond solitaire ring making £1,200 to a buyer in the room, while an 18ct gold cased gent's pocket watch, with Fusee movement, sold to the trade at £900.

A bid left with the auctioneers acquired a gent's Rolex Oyster date precision wristwatch for £820. This had the added advantage of being serviced by Rolex last year. A lady's 18ct gold ring set bagette central emerald surround by diamonds went to a local jewellery collector at £700.

Unusual

Also included in the sale were stone garden features. A pair of 20th century carved stone urns of classical form went to a telephone bidder at £1,350, while an unusual granite garden ornament of a pagoda on hexagonal base went for £750.

Portraits caught the eye in the picture section, a telephone bidder acquiring a Georgian-style oil on canvas Portrait Of A Young Ldy With Red Shawl selling for £660, while a portrait of a London Child, by A Fearan Walke, attracted a £480 bid.

A pair of fine, mid-19th century, blue cased milk glass candlesticks, although one had a rim chip, still surprised the auctioneers when it sold to a telephone bidder for £1,150. An unusual brass cased carriage clock, incorporating an aneroid barometer with bell strike, sold way past expectations at £820 as it was not working and the enamel face was damaged. A Jules Moigniez impressive bronze of an owl landing on a tree stump made £650 to an absentee bidder.

It was pleasing to see the increase in demand for furniture, said a spokesman for the auctioneers, Jefferys. A pair of impressive Chinese elm hoop-back folding armchairs made £1,000 to a buyer in the room, while an unusual First World War Naval base storage chest for acting Sub Lt Eric Soames, who was lost on HMS Racoon in 1918, sold for £700.

There were ten longcased clocks in the sale and a Georgian design inlaid mahogany eight-day example, with dolphin and mask spandrels, led the way with a £620 bid. The same price was achieved for an early oak stretchered serving table with fluted frieze on tapering pillared legs.

An impressive late Georgian cross banded mahogany double corner cupboard also did well at £550 to an absentee buyer.

The next sale at the Auction Rooms is scheduled for Wednesday, February 22, where there will be approximately 1,000 lots on sale. Further details can be obtained from www.jefferysauctions.co.uk or from the auctioneers on 01208 871847.