Auctions: Minerva House, Highweek Street, Newton Abbot: Important and Unreserved Sale of well-made antique and other HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and EFFECTS, RENDELL and SYMONS have received instructions from the Executors of the late J. B. Pinsent, Esq. deceased, to SELL by Auction, at the above Residence, on MONDAY and TUESDAY, April 22nd and 23rd, 1901, commencing each day at 10.30 a.m. the whole of the content, comprising massive mahogany dining-room furniture, rosewood drawing-room furniture, breakfast-room furniture, cottage pianofortes walnut and rosewood by Broadwood and Sons and Rosener, Brussels bordered velvet pile and Axminster carpets, old hand painted and other China services, quantity of very rare old cut glass, valuable old oil paintings, engravings and prints, including set of old steel engravings bound by ”Hogarth,” many volumes of books, old carved oak chest, very antique clocks and timepieces, lot of old China bowls, vases and ornaments, old Venetian glass ditto, musical box, old silver plate and Sheffield plate in variety, a very large quantity of bed and table linen and every requisite for well-appointed Residence. The Auctioneers beg to call the special attention of connoisseurs, dealers and others to this important Sale, 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. On view on Saturday, April 20 between 10 and 4
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GRO0518 Devonport: John Ball Pinsent: 1819 – 1901