Auction alerts: Antiques & Collectables sale, Stamford Auction Rooms

This week, we’re sharing information about the upcoming Antiques & Collectables sale at Stamford Auction Rooms. It happens on Saturday 30^th July 2022, from 10am.

There’s an eclectic mix of all sorts; vintage enamel advertising signs, Scandi glass, Belgian studio pottery, beautiful antique brass and more. Everything we’ve picked out below we’d happily give house room… if we had any left!

The buyer’s premium stands at 24% of the hammer price. There’s an added 3% commission if you bid via SARoom LIVE, the auction room’s own online bidding service.

Online bidding is also available via the-saleroom.com and EasyLiveAuction. If you bid via the-saleroom.com you’ll be charged an extra 4.95% on top of the 20% (+VAT)  buyer’s commission. Alternatively, if you bid via EasyLiveAuction you’ll be charged an extra 3% or £3.00 flat fee on top of the 20% (+VAT)  buyer’s commission.

Stamford Auction Rooms Ltd offers a delivery service. Please note that while we offer to post and pack for the convenience of our bidders, most items are uninsurable by the Royal Mail and we take no responsibility whatsoever for the items once they have left our premises.
Prices start at £12 +VAT.
We advise all our clients to use a professional packing service such as Mailboxes Etc. for ceramics/glass/breakables. Please contact the office for more information.

Lot 24: A Holmgaard smoky glass mid century ice bucket
With rattan handle and matching brushed steel pair of tongs, engraved Holmgaard 8715 to the base, 16cm high.
Estimate: £40-£60

Lot 28: A 19th century oil lamp
With a light reflective dome over a glass inner shade.
Estimate: £50-£80

Lot 40: A French brass antique coffee percolator
On stand with burner and cover, 25cm high.
Estimate: £20-£40

Lot 63: Attributed to Georges Pelletier (Belgium b.1938): a ceramic lamp
With pierced and applied decoration in the Cubist abstract style, mark not apparent, but may be incised under baize base, 41cm high, complete with original lampshade, 81cm including shade.
Estimate: £600-£800

Lot 78: A Castol GTX steel and enamel sign
30cm by 60cm.
Estimate: £100-£150

Lot 79: A steel and enamel Golden Shred marmalade sign
60cm by 40cm
Estimate: £200-£300

Lot 112: Six pairs of late 19^th / early 20^th century glasses and pince nez
Together with a leather collar box.
Estimate: £20-£40

Lot 124: A Wall’s glass counter top display cabinet
Estimate: £120-£150

Lot 221: A Le Corbusier style white leather chaise longue
With polished chrome frame base / stand.
Estimate: £800-£1,200

Win a Swannies bundle from Swanwick

This month, we have a review and giveaway in one. Swanwick has provided us a pair of Swannies blue light blocking glasses to try out as well as a Day & Night bundle for one of our readers.

Swanwick was founded in 2015 by two sleep-deprived brothers over in Australia. They learned that the blue light emitted from electronic devices wreaks havoc on the body’s production of melatonin, a hormone that helps to regulate sleep patterns. That’s when they set about designing and producing a range of fashionable eyewear that blocks out the offending blue light.

I’ve long been an advocate of blue light blocking glasses, this time it was Justin’s turn to give them a go.

He’s been wearing off-the-shelf reading glasses for a few years now, so we requested a pair of 2.50+ daytime blue light blocking glasses to test drive.

When the package arrived and he ‘unboxed’ his new specs, he was very impressed by the initial look of them. They’re very well made and have a real quality feel – robust, without feeling heavy. He finds them very comfortable to wear, even after long periods of use.

If you spend a good deal of time working at a computer, playing computer games, reading e-books, scrolling on your phone or watching TV, you’re probably exposing yourself to excess blue light.

Even if you don’t need to wear vision-correcting glasses, you can benefit from wearing Swannies. They’re available with both magnification and non-magnification blue light filtering lenses. They’re also available in kids’ sizes too!

To be in with a chance to win a Swannies bundle of your choice, tell us in the comments section below how many hours per day you reckon you spend on or looking at electronic devices.

A Swannies bundle from Swanwick

Price Points: Double glasses cases

If you’re a spectacles manufacturer, and you happen to be reading this, I have a tip for you. If you start making double glasses cases, you’ll be on to a good thing! I’m on the lookout for a single case that can hold both my reading glasses and my sunglasses. There are a fair few double glasses cases on the market already, but mainly soft shell ones.

I’ve found just one with a hard shell (see above) – but it’s not to my liking. I like cute cats & kittens as much as the next person, but I don’t want one emblazoned on my glasses case. My glasses are normally to be found (in their case) somewhere inside a stuffed handbag or rucksack, jostling for space with keys, purse, phone, flask, camera, another pair of glasses… Therefore, I need something that can take being knocked about a bit.

Dual glasses case for two frames: £13.36, eBay
Ashlie leather double spectacles case (various colours): £15.99, Amazon
Tobacco leather glasses case, double: £46.86, Etsy

shop double glasses cases

Some of the links on our blog are affiliate links. We may receive a small commission - at no cost to you - if you click through and make a purchase.
Prices & links correct at time of publication.

Tobacco leather glasses case, double
£46.86

Ashlie leather double spectacles case
£15.99