Top selling lots
Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet, May 9
Jiaqing (1796-1820) gilt-decorated powder blue bottle vase, iron-red seal mark, 10in (26cm) high, damage.
Estimate: £1000-1500
Hammer: £52,000
Plymouth Auction Rooms, May 10
Rare Heuer Autavia GMT wristwatch, No 2446, with box and paper.
Estimate: £1500-2000
Hammer: £8400
Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet, May 9
A string of Chinese hardwood prayer beads in fitted pewter box.
Estimate: £70-100
Hammer: £8800
Highest price over estimate
Shapes, Edinburgh, May 6
Orientalist school watercolour of Abu-Simbel, Egypt, indistinctly signed lower left, 2ft 1in x 3ft 1in (63 x 94cm).
Estimate: £40-60
Hammer: £5000
Tamlyns, Bridgwater, May 10
Late 18th century ivory slide rule with inscribed scales for calculations, original embossed card case.
Estimate: £300-400
Hammer: £9500
Sheffield Auction Gallery, May 5
Early 20th century lacquered brass goniometer by P Stoe, Heidelberg, parts lacking.
Estimate: £70-100
Hammer: £2200
1090 Most registered online bidders
Hannam’s Auctioneers, Selborne, May 4-5
Source: Bid Barometer is a snapshot of sales on thesaleroom.com for May 4-10, 2017.
‘Highest price over estimate’ = Our selection of items from the top 10 highest hammer prices as a multiple of the high estimate paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com
‘Top selling lots’ = Our selection of items from the top 10 highest hammer prices paid by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com
