Minerva House, Highweek Street, Newton Abbot: Important and Unreserved Sale of Well-made Antique and other Household Furniture & Effects: Rendell & Symons have received instruction from the Executors of the late J. PINSENT, Esq., deceased, to Sell by Auction, at the above Residence, on MONDAY and TUESDAY, April 22nd & 23rd, 1901, commencing each day 10-30 am., the whole of the CONTENTS, comprising .-—Massive mahogany dining room furniture, rosewood drawing room furniture, breakfast room furniture; 2 cottage pianofortes in walnut and rosewood, by “Broadwood & Sons and Rosener”; Brussels bordered velvet pile and Axminster carpets, old hand-painted and other China services, a quantity of very rare old cut glass, valuable old oil paintings, engravings and prints, including a set of old steel engravings, bound by Hogarth; many volumes of books, old carved oak chest, very antique clocks and timepieces, a lot of old China bowls, vases and ornaments, old Venetian glass ditto, musical box, old silver plate and Sheffield plate in variety, very large quantity of bed and table linen, and every requisite for a well-appointed Residence. The Auctioneers beg to call the special attention of connoisseurs, dealers, and others to this important Sale, as it includes a great variety of exceptionally valuable articles too numerous to describe in an advertisement. …. Catalogues 3d each, may be obtained at their Offices, Newton Abbot, or Totnes. View on Saturday, April 20th. between 10 and 4.
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901