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Barbara Kirk Auctions...
BARBARA KIRK
AUCTIONS
THE HARBOUR SALEROOM
PENZANCE CORNWALL
Our September auction is a two-day auction& will include a single owner collection of maritime & shipwreck antiques, artefacts & memorabilia...
click HERE to view the fully illustrated catalogue...
A Victorian RNLI silver medal awarded for a Cornish shipwreck rescue...
A bronze swivel gun recovered from the wreck of HMS Association...
An early 19thc. Royal Navy ship's bell recovered from a Cornish wrecksite...
A whales tooth scrimshaw depicting HMS Victory...
An early 19thc. woolwork of a British man o' war...
From a number of recovered early bottles in the collection...
A bronze mortar recovered from the wreck of HMS Association...
A brass signal gun recoverd from the SS Schiller wrecked 1875 on Scilly...
An early 19thc. sailor's named & dated bone fid...
From a number of Cornish shipwreck paintings & photographs...
Barbara awarded The Rotary Foundation Paul Harris Fellowship
Barbara being presented with her John Harris Fellowship by Mounts Bay Rotary retiring President John James...
Barbara Kirk became a Paul Harris Fellow of The Rotary International at the annual dinner of the Rotary Club of Mount's Bay in July.
Very rarely given to non-members, the Fellowship was awarded for the assistance by Barbara Kirk Auctions with a large deceased estate donated to the charity.
Barbara & her staff helped with the sorting, appraisal & valuation of the estate & later auctioned the suitable items at her saleroom, The Harbour Saleroom on Penzance harbour wharf.
Barbara has a policy of selling antiques, art jewellery & collectors items donated to local charities free of charges & for 0% commission so the Charity received the full auction sold price.
Some spectacular results have been acheived By Barbara Kirk Auctions in partnership with of local charities... for more information...
Also part of the collection are unique & rare Cornwall local history related antiques, bygones... also curios & folk art, militaria, coins & tokens etc..to view the fully illustrated catalogue click HERE
The architect's original 1890 drawing for the design of a proposed pier at Penzance...
A rare Tuckingmill Foundry Company medallion...
An album containing good early 20th century scenes & views of Cornwall...
Dated early 19thc. Penzance truncheon & St. Austell tipstaff...
An early 19thc. Cornish tin foundry ingot stamp...
19thc. Cornish tin miners felt tulls ...
A scarce Boscean Mine crested dinner plate...
An album of photographs of the 1962 storm damage to Penzanze Promenade...
A sliding lid pencil box & other Newlyn Copper...
A large piece from the petrified forest in Mount's Bay...
