AUCTION Sales round up

The Cyma watch was a present to Edward

VIII from Wallis

Simpson

Michael J Bowman, Chudleigh A gold watch believed to have been a birthday gift to Edward VIII from Wallis Simpson sold for £3,600 in Devon.

The 18ct timepiece is engraved on the back with the words David 23-6-52 Wallis, and had been expected to make £2,000-£3,000.

The Cyma wristwatch was a present for the Duke of Windsor’s 58th birthday from his American wife for whom he abdicated the throne in order to marry in 1936.

The case back is engraved David 23-6-52

Wallis

After his death in 1972 the watch went into the possession of the controverisal French lawyer Suzanne Blum who sold off many of his belongings.

Hanson’s, Etwall An autograph book from the golden age of cricket which had belonged to Gladys Douglas, sister of renowned cricketer Johnny Douglas (1882-1930) sold for 10 times its estimate when it hammered at £11,600 at the Derbyshire auctioneer’s recent sale.

The autograph book was part of a rich archive of Douglas memorabilia found in a Bath garage by Gladys’s daughters, sisters Nicky Lane, 69, and Karen Douglas, 68. After losing their mother last year at the age of 92, the siblings were clearing the property when they came across an old suitcase of memorabilia relating to the former England and Essex cricketer.

The autograph book was signed by cricketeers from the game’s golden age

Dawsons, Maidenhead A French Egyptian revival pendant sold for more than 10 times its low estimate when it achieved £39,000 at the auction house’s new Berkshire saleroom.

The stylish Egyptian revival pendant flew past its pre-sale estimate

The platinum multigem piece features a kneeling deity, thought to be Isis, made from calibre rubies and emeralds within a pavé-set diamond surround.

The stylish art deco piece, with a ruby, emerald and diamond fringe, has French platinum marks and was offered in a silk-lined leather box marked ‘Fattorini & Sons Ltd, Diamond Merchants, Bradford’. It was expected to make £3,000-£5,000.

Lawrences, Crewkerne A 19th-century gold necklace, hung with micro-mosaic pendants minutely decorated with motifs from the early Christian church, smashed its low presale guide of £6,000 when it sold for £25,000 at the Somerset auction house’s recent sale.

Offered in its original case, it was made by the Italian goldsmith Antonio Civilotti (1798-1870) in Rome and included depictions of doves, Maltese crosses and the Christogram ‘XC’.

The final lot of the jewellery sale, a brooch mounted with three brilliant-cut diamonds, weighing just over seven carats in total, doubled its top estimate to make a sparkling £30,000.

The micro mosaic necklace sold for four times its low estimate

The diamond brooch shone bright in the

Somerset saleroom

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