A 100-year-old French doll and a collection of comics were the top selling lots in a recent sale at Mitchells.
The French bisque head doll, dating from the late 19th or early 20th century, was estimated to sell for between £40 and £60, but made £420 at the Cockermouth auction house’s vintage and antique toy sale.
Joint top selling lot was a box of around 300 comics, including Marvel’s Wolverine and The Uncanny X-Men, which also sold for £420.
Another box of approximately 150 comics, including all Marvel’s The Uncanny X-Men series, sold for £320.
Other valuable lots were a small restored Victorian dapple grey rocking horse which made £400, an N-gauge track layout featuring a fairground and ferris wheel and a group of 25 boxed Matchbox models including 1-75 series and other diecast models both sold for £240.
A stationary engine, raised on black metal base, bearing plaque inscribed ‘W Foreman & Sons’ also made £240.
Highest selling teddy bear was an early 20th century Steiff, with ‘FF’ button to its ear, light brown, short pile mohair body an boot button eyes which sold for £200.
A 1920s/30s German teddy bear and an early 20th century English teddy bear, possibly by Farnell, both made £160 each.
An unusual Victorian hand crafted doll in the form of a wooden skittle sold for £180 and a 19th century wax over composition shoulder head doll with brown coloured wig and wearing a purple lace dress made £150.
Among a selection of military model kits were three ESCI 1:72 scale model kits Arnhem, The Last Bridge, El Alamein, The Desert Battle, and Tobruk Afrika Gate, which sold for £170 for the three.
A Crescent toys No.1224 Deep Sea Diver set including a diver, air pump, and salvage tools, in a green cardboard box made £150.
A group of seven Britains scale model tractors including Deutz-Fahr, Ford, Renault and Massey Ferguson sold for £150.
A mid-century wooden pinball machine with a glass top and wooden legs made £160.
Model locomotives and train sets for sale included a Hornby 00 Orient Express boxed train set which made £150, a Hornby Stephenson G100 live steam rocket locomotive set with track sold for £100, a Graham Farish N gauge Class A4 Sir Nigel Gresley locomotive and tender which made £65 and a Hornby 00 gauge DCC Ready LNER Class A4 Mallard locomotive and tender sold for £48.
Mitchells’ Vintage and Antique Toy Sales take place twice a year and the next one will be August 4, with a closing date for entries of June 27.
