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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 16

AUCTIONS. J£ JOHNSTON & CO., AUCTIONEERS. WONDERFUL ENGLISH PERIOD FURNITURE AUCTION At THE WELL-KNOWN HOMESTEAD "ROTOTAWAI," Kahautara Road (8 miles from Featherston), WAIRARAPA. On Account of MRS. W. E. BIDWILL. WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 and 8, 1938. Commencing each day at 10.15 a.m. E. JOHNSTON AND CO., Auctioneers, Wellington, have been instructed to conduct this highly-important Auction Sale at the Homestead. "Rototawai," Featherston, as above. THE MOST INTERESTING AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF GENUINE ENGLISH PERIOD FURNITURE, PERSIAN RUGS, and CARPETS, ART TREASURES, CHINA, CRYSTAL. PAINTINGS, COMFY ENGLISH UPHOL. CHAIRS AND CHESTERFIELDS, ETC., EVER GATHERED FOR SALE UNDER ONE ROOF IN THE WAIRARAPA. A WONDERFUL COLLECTION. EVERY PIECE' IN EXCELLENT ORDER—MOST OF IT AS NEW. FOR ABSOLUTELY UNRESERVED SALE. 650 LOTS 650 THE COMPLETE CONTENTS OF ONE OF THE MOST ARTISTICALLY AND EXPENSIVELY-FURNISHED HOMES IN NEW ZEALAND. 2 wonderful figured mahogany soft tables, coffee tables and occasional tables, exquisite figured mahogany bow-fronted . drawing-room cabinets, chests and tallboys (all in excelled order), magnificent figured walnut Queen Anne writing bureau with cabriole legs (this ia one of the finest pieces in the collection), and wonderful figured walnut Queen Anne folding card table with cabriole legs (another wonderful piece and matches the bureau), figured walnut coffee tables and occasional tables, English oak grandfather's clock, valuable carved English oak hall chestsand cabinets, special carved Charles II Oak hall chairs with, cane panel backs, valuable combination doubledoor radio-gramophone in handsome walnut case, complete with 6 albums of selected records (cost £220), mahogany standard lamps, English oak pedestal office desk. 2 wonderful old four-fold screens in excellent order, a most wonderful collection of over 150 pieces of heavy crystal of all descriptions, some of the pieces costing up to £12 10s each; special English-made chesterfield suites and several comfy divan chairs, all fitted with down cushions; separate English chesterfield lounges, valuable real hide English chesterfield lounge with drop-end and down cushions and hide divan chair to match (all equal to new), special mahogany and walnut comfy cane lounge chairs with down cushions, verychoice lace-back and hide fireside chairs, mahogany and walnut lounge chairs in handworked tapestry and Remy frieze, fiddle string Windsor arm chairs, wonderful figured walnut Queen Anne chest on cabriole legs, a large collection of exquisite handpainted china, beautiful Royal Worcester, Limoges, Aynsley, Doulton, and Wedgwood dessert sets, tea and coiiee sets breakfast sets and dinner services hand-painted glass and china HEAVY GILT FRAME by JOHN LOCKHEAD, R.B.A. (cost £360 in England), heavy quality silk tapestry wool, velvet, and fibred velvet curtains and pelmets (all lined) valuable hand-made Persian and Chinese rugs elegant Dresden figure ornaments and Dresden reading lamp a coUecLd ball feet and plate-glass tops (one Sfli bow front and «»• "gggfe? l^hTG mT^t VVONDE^L FIGURED MAHOGANY OVAL EXT DINING TABLE with claw and ball feet and heavily carved leg, S4&£&£SWHlf E DElf || CHAIRS with claw and ball feet and hisTeeats. This magnificent diningroom furniture is all en suite; ™™inS finer procurable in England today. Every piece is perfect. RP. ware of,all descriptions cutlery beautiful figured walnut knee tables and dressing tables with cabriole legs, solid walnut and mohogany doublelnd single bedsteads and expensive English box spring mattresses and hair and down mattresses (all as new), walnut cheval mirror, reflex dressing table mirrors, English pure down quilte, expensive jwafg any dressing tables, old walnut dressing table, walnut and mahogany bedside cabinets, several comfy English easy chairs with expensive loose covers, door cushions. ELEGANT FIGURED WALNUT BEDROOM SUITE, comprising exquisite THREE-DOOR WARDROBE with concave centre door, mirrors on back IS as bs» ss^rwSurcHAfKri en suite, in most perfect order. (Ihis suite is hard to describe-it mil have to be seen to be appreciated. Without doubt one of the finest suites that has ever been imported into New Zealand. Cost over £300. Everything in this wonderful home is in excellent order.) 'A large number of artistic antique framed mirrors, all sizes, m gi«, .an" tique, brass and walnut frames, Windsor chairs, 150 lots of kitchen utensils, china, groceries, etc., etc. Also General electric refrigerator (double door), cost £160, in perfect order, "Thor" electric washing machine, and "Thor" electric ironer. SALE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7 and 8. Commencing each day at 10.15 a.m. sharp. ON VIEW TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, from 11 a.m. till 4 p.m. Every piece in this wonderful collection is in Perfect Order. A BEAUTIFUL AND RARE COLLECTION WORTH SEEING. Order of Sale.—Wednesday, at 10.15 a.m.: Yard, Kitchen, Laundry, Staff Lounge, etc., Lots 1 to 180; 12.30 p.m., Drawing-room, Hall, Sitting-room, and Dining-room, Office, Lots 181 to 457. Thursday, at 10.15 a.m., Staff Quarters, Bedrooms. Sun Porch, etc.. Lots 458 to 650. THE GREATEST COLLECTION OF EXPENSIVE FURNISHINGS WE HAVE EVER AUCTIONED. Buying orders may be left with the Auctioneers for any lots. Full particulars in Detailed Catalogue. A UNIQUE SALE. E. JOHNSTON & CO., Auctioneers, WELLINGTON. AUCTION CLEARANCE SALE. A R. BARNES ESTATE, TAITA, LOWER HUTT. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, at 12 Noon. H ERNEST LEIGHTON, LIMITED, • have received instructions from the PUBLIC TRUSTEE to sell by Auction on the Farm, as above— Purebred herd of 19 Holstein cows, 6 Holstein heifers and 2 Holstein bulls, 2 good plough horses, 28 crossbred ewes with lambs at foot, large range of good farm machinery, tools, milking_ plant, etc., and a large list of sundries. H^ERNEST^EIGHTON, IJMITED, Auctioneers.