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THE ESTATES GAZETTE,
March 11, 1899.
Messrs. Prall and Prall, of Site at	Dartford. represented in the
gree™	rostrum by Mr. Herbert A.
Prali, submitted the freehold residence, No. 87, Camberwell-green, which enjoys a frontage of 33ft. 9in. to the green, with a depth of about 150ft., and comprises an area of 5,050 square feet. The residence was sold with possession, the estimated rental value being £60 a year ; it realised £1,030. Other transactions included the sale of a freehold double-fronted residence in Wightman-road, Hornsey, and a short leasehold ground rent of £18 per annum, secured upon three houses in West Ham-lane, Essex, 25 years unexpired, by Mr. Percival Hodson, for £750 and £205 respectively ; of two freehold villas in Elm-road, Sidcup, rental value £36 a year each, by Mr. H. Snelling (Messrs. Woods and Snelling), for £900 ; and of a leasehold residence in Portsdown-road, Maida-vale, held for nearly 78 years unexpired, at a ground rent of £10 10s.. by Mr. E. W. Rushworth (Messrs. Rushwortb and Stevens), for £605. From 30 to 33J years’ purchase was obtained by Mr. J. H. Hunter (Messrs. Hunter and Hunter) for freehold ground rents secured upon shops and dwelling houses in Seymour-place, Maryle-bone, with reversion in 55 and 68 years.
Wednesday.
To-day there was a slight Houses falling off in the supply, and Battersea. in consequence of the withdrawal of several substantial properties, notably the Birchgrove Collieries, in Glamorganshire, South Wales, offered by Messrs. Fuller, Horsey, Son and Cassell, the total was not nearly so large as on the two preceding days. The attention of small investors was principally directed to sales by Mr. G. T. E. Wriford (Messrs. Wriford and Dixons) and Mr. Harold Griffin, of Battersea, both of whom were able to realise substantial totals. One of the principal lots in Mr. Wriford’s list comprised a double-fronted dwelling house in Carburton-street, on the Portland estate. There are about 16 years of the lease unexpired, the ground rent being £12, and the property is at present let to weekly tenants at rentals amounting to £162 10s. per annum. It gave rise to an interesting and well-sustained competition, which towards the close was kept up by two individuals equally determined, the one endeavouring to out-bid the other—a circumstance always pleasing to the auctioneer ; the price realised was £665. Seven freehold ¡houses in Cruikshank-road, Stratford, producing in weekly rents an income of £167 14s. a year, were sold at the same auction for £1,955. The properties submitted by the Battersea auctioneer consisted principally of leasehold investments held for unexpired terms ranging from 60 to 70 years. The bidding in every instance was keen and spirited, and with th 3 exception of some leasehold flats in Surrey-lane, Battersea, Mr. Griffin was able to dispose of all his lots for a total of £3,655. Eight freehold houses also in the above-mentioned thoroughfare were sold for £2,520.
One of the most important ^hTthe8 PtoP61^*68 in the day’s list Strand. comprised the leasehold premises, No. 4, Lancaster-place, Wellington-street, Strand, which form part of the substantial pile of buildings facing Somerset House, on the Waterloo-bridge approach. They are seven stories in height, the five upper floors comprising suites of light offices and residential chambers. The property, which produces a total annual rental of £427, and is held under an underlease for an unexpired term of 16 years at a ground rent of £30, payable to the Duchy of Lancaster, was sold by Mr. Douglas Yoong (Messrs. Douglas Young and Co.) for £2,325. Capitalists anxious to invest their money in reversionary properties were afforded ample opportunity by Messrs. Laing, Waters and Co.’s periodical sale. This firm were represented by Mr. Fred J. V. Furnivall, and at the fall of his hammer a reversion to four-sixths of one-seventh of a portion of a trust fund, of the estimated value of £8,727 18s. 9d., life aged 62 ; also to a sum of £600 secured on freehold and leasehold properties, payable on the coming of age of a lady, born March, 1886, were
years, at a ground rent of £17 10s., and producing £110, which went for £1,100.
The dai’s results will show *	, thatMr. JamesBoyton(MfSsrs.
Lease! Elliott, Son and Boyton) was the most successful of the auctioneers engaged. His sale attracted quite a large assembly of capitalists anxious to buy high-class residential properties in the West-end and north-western district of the Metropolis, and their biddings enabled the Vere-street auctioneer to dispose of all his lots for an aggregate of £7,655—the highest realised during the afternoon. Considerable importance was attached to the sale of the direct Portland lease of the private and professional residence, No. 53, Harley-street—a medium-sized house, a short distance out of Cavendish-square. It i3 let on lease until 1909 at £250 a year. A piece of land in the rear, about 38ft. 6in. in depth, with a width of 20ft. 6in., is let at £10 per annum, making a total rental of £260. The property, which is held for a term expiring October, 1916, at a ground rent of £27, was sold by Mr. Boyton for £2,300. A semi-detached residence, No. 51, Warwick gardens, Kensington, now let on repairing lease for a term expiring 2J years hence, at £80 a year, and held for an unexpired term of 50 years at a ground rent of £6, fetched £1,140, whilst two detached houses in Finchley-road, held for 20J years at peppercorns, and let at £174 a year, were purchased for £1.680. The company in the room occupied by Mr. Albert Chancellor (Messrs. Chancellor and Sons) was comparatively small, but those in attendance bad evidently come on business bent, a batch of leasehold ground rents amounting to £191 per annum net arising out of some 74 houses in the neighbourhood of Rich-mond-hill being disposed of for a total of £3,820. Although somewhat unfortunate in regard to one or two housts in Upper Holloway, Canonbury and Highbury, Mr. Frederick Warman had the satisfaction of selling a residence in the last-mentioned locality—No. 167, Highbury New-park, 50 years’ lease, ground rent £15—for £1,300; whilst there was a likelihood that the unsold lots would quickly change hands. The last statement will apply to the offer of freehold building land at Herne-bay, and other seaside resorts, by Mr. John Bott (Messrs. John Bott and Sons), who met with poor success, although it was quite evident that nearly all had come with the intention of doing business.
Tuesday.
Tne biggest individual total North recorded to-day was £5,150, Leaseholds, realised by Mr. C. W. Davies, of Islington, f >r a number of north London leaseholds. Mr. Davies had the heaviest programme of the day, and once more I am able to note that every lot was cleared off. A very satisfactory figure was the £1,400 obtained by the Upper-street auctioneer for two copyhold houses in Colebrooke-row, Etsex-road, each let and together producing £80 a year. The other items in the list included a leasehold residence in Camden-road, with possession in March next, and of the estimated rental value of £65 a year, held for an ucexpired term of 47 years, at £7 ground rent, which went for £600 ; and a long-leasehold house in Wharton street, Lloyd-square, Clerken-well, now let to weekly tenants, but estimated to produce £40 a year, for £300. Mr. W. F. Crier (Messrs, 'l’yser, Greenwood and Crier) was another auctioneer able to leave the Mart with a clear sheet. The bidding in this instance was slow, and the proceedings were not of a very interesting character; but, nevertheless, the reserves were capped, and good prices were realised. For example, two long-leasehold cottages in Avenue-terrace, Back-common, Turn-ham-green, producing a net income of £44 a year, realised £470 ; a similar investment in Arlington-park-gardens, North Chiswick, in occupation of owner, but of the estimated rental value of £40 per annum, £440 ; a leasehold shop and laundry premises in Antrobus-road, Acton-greeD, let to weekly tenants and producing £61 2s. a year, and held for 77 years unexpired, at a ground rent of £9 9s, £475, ana two modern non-basement villas in Cleveland-gardens, Barnes-common, freehold, and together let at £59 16s. a year, £700.
Rare Tapestry. Porcelain, etc.
The remarkably fine panel of old Gobelins tapestry, representing Asia (already referred to in these columns); was sold at Messrs. Christie’s on the 3rd inst., together with some choice examples of porcelain, decorative furniture, etc. The principal lots were as follows: —A pair of Dresden figures of hoys, with branches for three lights of chased ormolu, 17in. 'high, 72 guineas ; a pair of oviform fluted vases of Chinese sage-green crackle porcelain, 15in. high, £26; a German porcelain group of a shepherd and shepherdess with lambs, 13in. high, £30; a large eight-leaf folding screen of old Chinese black lac, carved with a- landscape, building, trees, etc., lllin. high, 95 guineas; a Louis XYI. carved and gilt fire-screen, with a panel of old Gobelins tapestry, with a subject of two children in a landscape, signed Neilson, 34in. by 26in., 190 guineas ; a fine panel of old Gobelins tapestry, representing Asia, with a jungle in brilliant colours, numerous wild animals, birds, etc., signed “Jans,” 15ft. Pin. high, 12jft. wide, 600 guineas ; this panel was found by Lieutenant-Colonel Hope Crealoek, military secretary to the Earl of Elgin, in the Island Summer Palace of Yuen Ming Yuen, near Peking, in October, 1860 ; the superintendent of the Gobelins factory ■has certified that it was one of the first tapestries ever made in !the Gobelins (Herr Jans being chef d’atelier about the year 1664), where it remained till, in 1771, it was sent as a present from Louis XV. to the Emperor Kien Lung. A panel of old Gobelins tapestry, with a wintry landscape with frozen river spanned ■by a bridge, etc., signed D. Teniers, lift. 3in. high, 13ft. wide, 330 guineas.
Pictures.
An interesting sale of pictures was held by Messrs. Foster at their rooms in Pall Mall on Wednesday. Among the more interesting items were : —Coronation and Attila (a pair), by J. F. Herring, 36 guineas; portrait of Bay Middleton, by J. F. Herring, 48 guineas ; a portrait of Mrs. Lloyd (sketch for large picture), by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 52 guineas; Rubens in his Studio, by Old Francks, 66 guineas; and portrait of ■a! lady, seated, with spaniel, by J. M. Nattier, £400.
|VIems from the JVIart
Monday.
Thare were many interest C°* e^t6 at°" transactions at Token-
WaUehamstow.house־yard this afternoon, and
the prospects of another bus) week were exceedingly bright. Half h dozen important auctions had attracted a good crowd of investors, and every auctioneer received a fair share of patronage. Mr. William Houghton, of Old Broad-street. was responsible for a contribution oi £5,910 towards a heavy total. Included in his list were nine freehold cottages in Milton-road, Walthamstow, the whole producing a gross rental of about £160, capable of considerable improvement. There was an inducement to buy in the shape of a promise that two-thirds of the purchase money could remain on mortgage at 5 per cent., and the auctioneer was not long in disposing of the whole in one lot for £1,585. This price was closely approached by that realised for eight freehold villas, also at Walthamstow. The gross rentals in this instance amounted to £128 14s., and ths property fetched £1,365. Other sums including £920 given for 10 leasehold dwelling houses in Suffoik-plaee, Woodville-road, Stoke Newington, held for an unexpired term of 20-J years, at a ground rent of £80, made up the total placed to Mr. Houghton s credit; but the Walthamstow properties just mentioned were not the only investments in that locality that were offered for public competition, for a substantial list exhibited in front of the rostrum occupied by Mr. Henry Hooper included four dwelling houses, with a 79 years’ lease, forming part of Shernhali-terrace. The rental, out of which must be deducted a ground rent of £48, is £92, and the price realised was £320. Numerous houses, principally leaseholds, were withdrawn; but amongst those disposed of by Mr. Hooper were a freehold detached residence known as Braeside, with grounds of la. Sr. 12p., situate on the main road from Theydon Bois-green to Epping, which fetched £1,475 ; and two leasehold semi-detached houses in Egliston-road, Putney Lower-common, held for an unexpired term of 89
the Second Folio resting in the place which she would have thought its most fitting home. It may be .stated that, Lady Martin (Helen Faucit) emerged from her retirement to take part in the opening performance of the Shakspeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford, about 20 years ago.”
We have seldom seen a more magnificent collection of luxuriously bound books than those sold ait Messrs. Sotheby’s on Thursday. They belonged to the collection of Mr. Egerton Harry Clarke, and consisted mainly of the first editions of the works of the great novelists and poets of the Victorian period. The first item to attract attention was a set of original editions of Charles Dickens’s works, beautifully bound in olive green polished levant morocco, which reached the bidding of £172, and was withdrawn, the reserve having been fixed at £200 ; a first edition of the Pickwick Papers, complete in the original parts, sold for £22 ; a complete set of the works of George Eliot, all first editions, bound in blue calf, by Riviere, £30 10s. ; a set of Thomas Hardy’s works, all first editions, hound in maroon morocco, by Worsfold, £40 ; the first editions of Charles Lever’s works, handsomely bound in light blue morocco by Riviere, were withdrawn at £105, the reserve being £130 ; and a' set of the first editions of Captain Marryat’s novels, bound in polished levant morocco, went for £111.
We have before us a few specimen pages of Mr. John Lane’s new edition of Gilbert White’s “Natural History of Selbome.” The work is to be issued in 12׳ monthly parts, beginning with the present month, at eighteenpence each part. It is to be edited by Mr. Grant Allen, who will supply a biographical and critical introduction and notes; and it is t o be illustrated by that charming black and white artist, Mr. Edmund H. New. It has been truly said of Mr. New’s work that it has the charm of exquisite fidelity to nature, combined with a distinction and originality which give it a character unique in black and white. This new edition ■of White’s perennially interesting work is likely to be, on the whole, the choicest ever offered to the public.
SALE« OF THE WEEK.
Engravings.
Some rare examples of etchings and engravings by and after the old masters, together with a fine collection of modern engravings, were disposed of by Messrs. Christie on the 1st and 2nd :inst. The principal items included the following : —Rembrandt, “ The Entombment.” first state, £30; “The Rainbow,” after J. Constable, by D. Lucas, proof, 40guineas; “1807,” after J. L. E. Meissonier, by J. Jacquet, re-marque proof on vellum, 80 guineas; “ Les Renseignements,” after the same by A. Jacquet, 28 guineas; the following after Sir E. Landseer: “Night” and “Morning,” by T. Landseer, artist’s proof signed by painter and engraver, 52 guineas; “ Odin,” by the same, first state, 35 guineas; “ Ilafed,” by C. G. Lewis, first state, 27 guineas; “Dignity and Impudence,” by T. Landseer, first state, 36 guineas ; “ Children of the Mist,” by the same, artist’s proof signed by painter and engraver, 31 guineas; and “The Monarch of the Glen,” by the same, signed by painter and engraver, 70 guineas; “ The Horse Fair,” after Rcsa Bonheur, by T. Landseer, artist’s proof, 40 guineas.
Pictures.
Some choice examples by the old masters and a few modem pictures were sold by Messrs. Christie on the 4th inst. The following were the more interesting items:—Berkheyden, buildings on a canal, with figures and a bridge, 20in. by 24in., 165 guineas; F. Bol, head of a ycung girl, in jewelled cap and dress, on panel, oval, 66 guineas; F. Hals, head of a youth, in red cap, on panel, 9in. circle, 105 guineas; K. du Jardin, portrait of the artist, in brown slashed dress and lace oollar, 24in. by 20in., 165 guineas; Jan van Ravenstein, portrait of an old woman, in black dress, with ruff, on panel, oval, 211 guineas; Rembrandt, head of a rabbi, ■on panel, 8in. by 62m., 265 guineas; H. Fragonard, “ The Coquette,” oval, 25in. by 20in., 200 guineas ; Francia, the Madonna and Child, on panel, 25in. by 19in., 145 guineas; J. Ruysdael, a landscape, with cottages, windmill, peasant woman and child on a road, 25in. by 21in., 140 guineas; Botticelli, the Madonna and Infant Saviour, with St. John and an angel, 24in. by 19in., 160guineas; J. Hoppner, portrait of a young girl, in white dress and blue kerchief round her hair, oval, 30in. by 25in , 190 guineas; and N. Laneret, a woody lake scene near a castle, boat with ladies and gentlemen being rowed across to figures on the opposite bank, 22in. by 18in., 1,020 guineas. The day’s sale realised £5,521 3s.