Bookstall is on today June 30th

   Hopefully this early rain will stop and I'll be able to get to the market. Quite a few new things this week and a number of catalogues for forthcoming sales. There's a free box under the table so have a browse in there as well.

   As an incentive, the first person to repeat the following Henry David Thoreau quote will be entitled to two free catalogues.

        'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'.

   See you soon, Andrew.

Vintage posters online auction at Onslows 29th June

   Onslows are holding the first of its bi-annual online auctions of vintage posters on June 29th. 372 lots covering travel, wartime and general advertising themes.

Norman Wilkinson (1878-1971) Launch of T.S.S Duke of York, Queen's Island, Belfast, original poster printed for LMS by London Lithographic c.1935 - 102 x 127 cm £1500-1800

   You can view the catalogue here.

5 Maori taiaha at auction at Mallams, Oxford, 29th June

As part of The Gentleman's Library sale at Mallams in Oxford are five Maori taiaha with estimates starting around the £150-200 mark.

   You can view the lots here.

Bookstall is on today 23rd June

I'm running late so basically this is a repeat of last week's post. It's another blustery day but hopefully it will not rain. Lots of new stuff this week, come on down for some cheap art books. There's a free box under the table so have a browse in there as well.

   As an incentive, the first person to repeat the following song lyric by Alexei Sayle from his classic 'Ello John, Got a new motor? will be entitled to two free catalogues.

        "I keep tropical fish - in me underpants'.

   They don't write them like that anymore! See you soon, Andrew.

Maori whaleone club at Tennants, Leyburn, |N. Yorks, June 22nd

   There is a Maori whalebone club coming up for sale at Tennants Auctions, in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, on Friday, June 22nd as part of its Militaria & Ethnographica sale.

   'A 19th Century Maori Whalebone Wahiaka (Hand Club), with fine aged patina, of curved form, the handle pierced through for attachment and terminating with the head of a mythological figure with inlaid red sealing wax eyes, the tapered blade pierced along one edge, the opposing edge carved in relief with a Tiki figure with abalone shell eyes inlaid with red sealing wax, overall length 31.5cm.'

    You can view the catalogue online here. There's a taiaha also up in the same sale.

   Update:  The taiaha sold for £800 and the wahaika sold for a whopping £19,000 against an estimate of £2,000-3,000!

Bookstall is on today June 16th

   Well, where's that week gone? It's another blustery day but hopefully it will not rain. Lots of new stuff this week, come on down for some cheap art books. There's a free box under the table so have a browse in there as well.

   As an incentive, the first person to repeat the following song lyric by Alexei Sayle from his classic 'Ello John, Got a new motor? will be entitled to two free catalogues.

        "I keep tropical fish - in me underpants'.

   They don't write them like that anymore! See you soon, Andrew.

Bookstall is on today June 9th

   Well, it's a blustery day but hopefully it will not rain. Lots of new stuff this week, come on down for some cheap art books.

   As an incentive, the first person to repeat the following song lyric by The Boss will be entitled to two free catalogues plus an extra one if you can name the song.

        "Like a river that don't know where it's flowin'
         I took a wrong turn and I just kept goin'.

   Kinda sums up the bad life choices I've made so far! See you soon, Andrew.

Raymond Ching painting at Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, June 13th

There is a painting by the New Zealand-born wildlife artist Raymond Harris-Ching at the Salisbury, Wiltshire, auction rooms of Woolley and Wallis on June 13th.

Head of a wedge-tailed eagle. Signed and dated 1991
Oil on panel. 13¾"x13"
Estimate: £3,000-5,000

   You can view the catalogue here. It's lot 395.

   There are several Raymond Ching works coming up for auction at the International Art Centre in Auckland, New Zealand on July 26th. More details to follow.

2 Adam Styka paintings at auction this month

   There are a couple of Adam Styka paintings coming up at auction this month. First up is an oil on canvas at Sotheby's in London as part of the European Paintings sale on June 11th.

The Idyll - oil on canvas. 32"x25½"
Estimate: £20,000-30,000

   You can see the auction catalogue here.

   The following day, on June 12th, Bukowski's Auctions in Stockholm will offer another Adam Styka oil on canvas:

Under the African sun - oil on canvas.

32"x26". Estimate: £37,350-42,650

   You can see the auction catalogue here.

   If you want to see big pictures of the above two lots then use these two:

   http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/L12/L12101/066L12101_6FTHM.jpg
   https://d2mpxrrcad19ou.cloudfront.net/item_images/296045/8258541_fullsize.jpg

   Be warned - if you have a slow connection speed it will take a while!

African & Oceanic Art at Sotheby's Paris June 12th

   Sotheby's in Paris is holding a sale of African and Oceanic Art on June 12th. Whilst the majority of the 137 lots on offer are from Africa (as you'd expect at a French sale) there are a few from the Pacific region including three Maori lots shown below. The estimates will make your eyes water, though.

Maori feather box, length 48cm. Estimate: €30,000-40,000

Maori greenstone tiki, height 13½cm. Estimate: €40,000-60,000

Maori whalebone club, length 47cm. Estimate: €15,000-20,000

   You can view the catalogue online here.

   If you want to look at big images of the three lots above then use these:

   http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/PF1/PF1208/159PF1208_6FQVJ_4.jpg
   http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/PF1/PF1208/194PF1208_6G566_1.jpg
   http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/PF1/PF1208/196PF1208_6G567_2.jpg

Umm, I think my ADD kicked in. I apologise for being so slack. I let alot of good things go by without publicising them. Hopefully, I can get my A into G.