CURIOS AND RELICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1928, Page 3

CURIOS AND RELICS.

SALE IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, August 29. Dqnd artists and cratsmen of England, China, Japan, Holland, France, Arabia, Spain, Tibet, India, Ceylon, Australia, North Africa, Java, Albania, and a dozen other countries, in their lifetime helped to fill a dingy upstairs room in Castiereagh street with nearly 700 articles, some beautiful, many quaint, and all pathetic. All tilings seen in an auction room are pathetic; and in the unique collection known as “The Tyrell Collection!"! sold by 1 public auction at Lawson’s rooms yesterday, were scores of works of art, antiques, old china, bronzes, etchings, that were doubly pathetic because of the low prices which they brought. No reserve was placed upon any article, with the result that beautiful old Boulton and Staffordshire ware, French porcelain, Chinese famille rose plates, Minton plates with pheasant decorations, sang-de-hoeuf vases, and other rnreties were going at prices ranging from half a guinea to a couple of guineas. Twelve guineas were paid for six rare old Swansea plates of Billingsley’s period. A Sunderland lustre toaset of •18 pieces brought 20 guineas, and 3" guineas were paid or a beautiful old Chelsea Derby group of Neptune standing on a dolphin, marked 1 No. (This group, by tlie way, is mentioned on page 834 oi “ Chaffer’s Marks on China.”)

To-day strange relics of dead ages will he sold; old Chinese coins, Tibetan temple hells, prayer wheels and incens,, burners; a Burmese healing Buddha, a bronze panel after Leonardo da Vinci, made hv a Sydney craftsman more than forty years ago ; Japanese bronze vases, Persian wine vessels, quaint guns, pistols, and swords from far countries; prints and pictures by artists whose names are famous, a lock of Napoleon’s hair, hire embroideries, necklets, siiufllioxes pipes, carvings and the MSS. c” men such as Victor Daley, Will Ogilvie, Kendall, Henry Lawson, Randolph Bedford. Edmund Fisher—and Charles Dickens.