Maps offered in the Taunton sale included two manuscripts of Kent interest. Drawn by John Shorter in 1767, a ‘Plan of the Farm called Glass Cocks belonging to Miss Henrietta Collier... in Sandhurst’ made a ten-times-estimate £210, and a higher than predicted £340 was also taken on a ‘Map and Survey of Swattenden Land in the Parish of Cranbrook… given by Alexander Dence 1575 for the Poor’ drawn up in 1791 by William Rose.
Rupert and the plans
THE jacket was torn with loss and four of the five paintbox pictures had been partly coloured, but a copy of The New Adventures of Rupert, the 1936, first Rupert annual, was sold at £580 in a May 13 sale held by Greenslade Taylor Hunt.
