If you like watching BBC’s Repair Shop, or have a passion for travel, you’ll find lots of interest in Mitchells’ special tools and travel sales coming up in the next two weeks.
The Woodworking, Engineering & Workshop Sale on Thursday October 31 has a great mix of tools for woodworking, auto repair, engineering and metal working to suit every budget.
There are also unusual items like a vintage animal ear tattooing kit, antique Lister wood samples and an antique wooden clay pipe trident as well as a Lincoln Powertec mig welder and an Elektra Bekum floor standing bandsaw.
Ideal for the amateur furniture or cabinet maker is a NuTool NM 2-2 mortising machine, small enough for a bench top, which should make £50-£80.
There’s also a vintage Stanley Bailey no. 41/2 smoothing plane, a staple of any wood worker’s tool chest, and collectable in its original box with an estimate of £20-£30.
Renovation projects include a 1920s/30s Art Deco industrial lamp with a gold painted decoration, original flex and plug estimated at £40-£60.
An illustrated catalogue can be viewed online at www.the-saleroom.com/Mitchells where buyers can also register to leave bids in advance or bid live during the auction.
Lots will also be on view in the saleroom on Wednesday,, the day before the sale, from 10am to 7pm.
For more information about lots featured in the Woodworking, Engineering & Workshop Sale contact David Dunlop on 01900 827800.
Maritime & Transport Sale at Mitchells
On Thursday November 7, wanderlust and travel features strongly in the Maritime and Transport Sale, with lots to appeal to the explorer in everyone.
Highlights include a collection of books detailing Charles Darwin’s expedition on the HMS Beagle to discover The Origin of Species, with an affordable estimate of £20-£40.
Other lots on a maritime theme include The Shipwrights Vade-Mecum Principles and Practice of Ship Building, 2nd Edition from 1922 which could make £100-£200 and a watercolour of a steam powered gunship by William Mackenzie Thomson (1870-1892) with an estimate of £80-£120.
Alternatively, you could propel your yacht to exciting new destinations with a Vetus Bow Thruster 75 kgf at a princely £400-£800.
Or for those with an eye on the past rather than the horizon, there’s a wooden box containing train and bus tickets for a variety of journeys taken in the early 1900s, estimated at £25-£50.
An illustrated catalogue can be viewed online a week before the sale at www.the-saleroom.com/Mitchells where buyers can also register to leave bids in advance or bid live during the auction.
Lots will also be on view in the saleroom on Wednesday November 6, the day before the sale, from 10am to 7pm.
For more information about lots featured in the Maritime & Transport Sale contact Claire Machin on 01900 827800.
Entries for the Maritime & Transport Sale close on Thursday October 31.
Free valuations
Mitchells offer free valuations by appointment at their Cockermouth saleroom and home visits by arrangement, including in the South Lakes and Furness.
Alternatively, valuation requests and photographs can be sent by email to info@mitchellsantiques.co.uk or contact Mitchells on 01900 827800 to arrange a free valuation.
