Robert Bell & Company

Auction archives

From the bizarre (think “eel traps”) to the morbidly unusual funeral bier, we’ve seen many fascinating lots go under the hammer over the years! So take a trip with us down memory lane as we examine some of our stranger sales.

c.1900 Fireman's helmet £500 & fire bell £170
Victorian bath chair £100
1887 specimen set £1625 and DSO Boer & Gt War medals £1650
Cased pike, caught 1949 Hobhole Drain, Lincs £825
Copper jelly moulds £650
Harrods oak cased barograph £300
Art Deco Chester 1933 breakfast set £335
Oil on canvas £2000
Royal Worcester trio £1720
Large GNER poster c.1900 of Skegness £3100
c.1800 blunderbuss £660; c.1780 flintlock £420 etc
Victorian walnut table (left) £600 & Regency rosewood table £7100
Complete set hand painted playing cards £200
Wicker eel trap £60
Working model traction engine £660
Oak Victorian funeral bier £120

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