Its strength lay with the 101-lot jewellery section that boasted a 92 per cent take-up. It included a late Victorian diamond star brooch at £1400, a Victorian oval brooch with cabochon garnets and diamonds at £1050, and an Art Deco diamond lapel clip at £950.
Among the novelty silver, a London, 1880 silver and tortoiseshell match-strike in the form of a tortoise, quadrupled its estimate selling at £880.
An 18ct gold Cartier wristwatch was the most expensive lot of the day at £4000.
Jewellery provides the Dorset stars
ALTHOUGH there were no blockbusters at the 778-lot February 20 sale at Charterhouse (15% buyer's premium), neither were there many casualties, with 86 per cent of the sale finding buyers.
