Homes & Antiques

STAR SALES

1. Spinning Along

Estimate £1,000–£1,500 Sold £5,250

The Bicyclist – an amusing figure of a frog riding a Penny Farthing – trundled out of Lyon & Turnbull at the end of last year, as part of the Peter Rose & Albert Gallichan Collection of 19th-century art and design that was sold to benefit The Albert Dawson Trust. The humorous piece was designed in 1885 by George Tinworth, who worked for the Doulton stoneware pottery factory in Lambeth, London, from

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