Torquay Pottery Collectors Society GRAND AUCTION 2025
Please bear in mind that YOU HAVE TO BE A PAID UP MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY IN ORDER TO BID ON THESE LOTS. IF YOU WANT TO BID ENSURE YOU ARE A PAID MEMBER – OR JOIN OUR SOCIETY NOW!
THE AUCTION WILL COMMENCE 1.45PM – 2PM, DEPENDENT ON HOW THE AGM MEETING IS RUNNING.
LIVERMEAD HOUSE HOTEL, THE SEAFRONT, TORQUAY
SUNDAY 21st September 2025
PLEASE NOTE: for those wanting to place a Commission Bid please contact Ryan – tpcscommittee1@gmail.com AND QUOTE YOUR MEMBERSHIP NUMBER
1. Aller Vale Persian jug 8 inches. Sold for £60.00
2. Faience decorated pot 6 inches. Sold for £16.00
3. Longpark giant cup and saucer 6 inches. Sold gor £10.00
4. Longpark royal commemorative beaker. Silver jubilee 1935. 4 inches. Sold for £10.00
5. Aller Vale. Three wallpockets. Sold for £20.00
6. Lemon and Crute peacock vase, 14 inches. Unsold
7. Longpark giant teapot. Scandy decoration. Sold for £45.00
8. Tor Vale – three pieces of potterySold for £45.00.
9. Daison pottery bird decorated vase. Sold for £140.00
10. Lauder owl wall pocket Sold for £160.00
11. Brannam. Pair of fish wall pockets. Sold for £80.00
12. Mosanic Pottery jug with pig decoration. Not sold
13. Torquay Pottery. Three kingfisher posyt holders. Sold for £25.00
14. Aller Vale green pixie playing a banjo. Sold for £65.00
15. Longpark “Brannam style” vase with bird decoration. Sold for £74.00
16. Watcombe faience vase with Babbacombe pier decoration. Sold for £52.00
17. Watcombe porcelain dish set in silver plated basket. Sold for £34.00
18. Brannam Pottery. Dragon candle holder. Sold for £55.00
19. Watcombe. Pair of mice matchstrikers. Not sold
20. Watcombe jardinaire, unusual pattern. Sold for £35.00
21. Lemon and Crute jug with Dutch children decoration. Sold for £42.00
22. Collection of 13 Torquay pottery inkwells. No stoppers. Not sold
23. Rare Longpark cottage advertising plaque. Sold for £85.00
24. Longpark teapot “Brannam Style” with dragon decoration. Sold for £100.00
25. Dartmouth Pottery lidded fish made for Shreve Crump and Low, Boston. Sold for £22.00
26. Longpark. Tall lustrous green vase. 11.5 inches Spld for £50.00
27. Torquay Terracotta Company slave girl figure. 11 inches. Not sold
28. Dartmouth Pottery. Pair of coloured cocxkerals 8.5 inches. Sold for £32.00
29. Aller Vale jardinaire daffodil pattern. 10 inches wide. Not sold
30. Watcombe monk mug. 8 inches.Sold for £55.00
31. Exeter floral jardiniere 8 inches Sold for £40.00
32. Watcombe tall terracotta enamelled vase 17 inches. Sold for £110.00
33. Exeter Pottery lidded jar with golf clubs. Sold for £40.00
34. Longpark two plates with cockerels, 9 inches and 6 inches. Sopld for £20.00
35. Longpark plate with cockerel, 9 inches. Sold for £10.00
36. Aller Vale. Two jugs with cockerels. 8 inches. Sold for £28.00
37. Crown Dorset vase with cavalier decoration. 7.5inches Sold fopr £44.00
38. Aller Vale jug with cockerel 9 inches Sold for £34.00
39. Lonpark plate with Grandmotehr Clock saying. 11 inches. Sold for £65.00
40. Longpark plate with motto. 11 inches. Sold for £55.00
41. Watcombe oval tray with motto and unusual mark. 14 inches by 10 inches. Sold for £12.00
42. Longpark water jug. Alexandra rose pattern. Sold for £10.00
43. Watcombe terracotta plaque, grape decoration. 19 inches. Sold for £45.00
44. Watcombe jug decorated with a grotesque head, 8 inches. Sold for £110.00
45. Watcombe terracotta vase decorated with a sparrow. Sold for £40.00
46. Watcombe terracotta vase decorated with a blue bird 11 inches Sold for ££45..00
47a and 47b Torquay Terracotta teaset, 5 pieces and tray. (See Artisans of the Torquay Potteries page 12) Sold for £45.00 including 47b
47b See 47a
48. Vase decorated with a bird on coloured and stippled ground 5 inches. Sold for £45.00
49. Pair of vases. Daffodil pattern. 6 inches. Sold for £40.00
50. Longpark terracotta plaque with bird decoration. 14.5 inches. Sold for £20.00
51. Longpark oval terracotta plaque, with birds on a blue ground. 10 inches. Sold for £15.00
52. Watcombe bottle vase. Flower decoration on blue ground. 7 inches. Sold for £10.00
53a and 53b Watcombe terracotta urn with classic swags and lion heads. 14 inches. (See Artisans of the Torquay Potteries page 13). Sold for 35.00
53b. Sold for £30.00
54. Watcombe terracotta urn with flower decoration. 10 inches. Sold for £52.00
55. Watcombe terracotta urn with flower decoration. 10 inches. Sold for £50.00
56. Watcombe tewrracotta urn with continental waterside decoration. 14 inches. Sold for £50.00
57. A Watcombe terracotta urn with ancient Greek style decoration. 14 inches. Sold for £70.00
58. Torquay Terracotta plaque with classical incised decoration. 10 inches. (See Artisans of the Torquay Pottery Page 14) Soild for £10.00
59. Watcombe terracotta plaque with coloured panel, bird and wolf decoration. 12 inches. (See Artisans of the Torquay Potteries Page 13.) Soild for £65.00
60. Watcombe terracota coffee pot with bird and metal lid. 10 inches. Sold for £25.00
61a and 61b Watcombe cherry blossom biscuit barrel and cruet set.Sold for £27.00 . Including 61b.
61b. See 61a
62 Torquay Terracotta Urn with ancient Greek battle decoration. 16 inches, (See Artisans of the Torquay Potteries page 13). Sold for £65.00
63. Watcombe teapot with flowers on olive ground. 5.5 inches. Sold for £50.00
64 Torquay Terracotta vase decorated with convolvuylus. 11 inches. Sold for £40.00
65. Watcombe terracotta lidded pot with enamelling. 4 inches. Sold for £12.00
66. Longpark terracotta charger with three yellow birds. 17 inches. Sold for £20.00
67. Watcombe terracotta lidded vase with flowers. 11 inches. Sold for £52.00
68. Photographic oval plaque designed for the “fired for Royalty” Exhibition in 2023, designed by Andy Violet. Sold for £30.00
CONDITIONS OF SALE AND AUCTION PROCEDURES
Prospective bidders are requested to obtain a bidding slip from the desk before bidding for any lot. Where possible, please register during the view or before the sale, as this will assist us in administration of buyer’s accounts.
Care is taken to ensure that any statement as to attribution, date and age is reliable and accurate, but all such statements of vendor’s opinion are not to be taken as declarations or representation of fact.
Intending purchasers must satisfy themselves, by inspection or otherwise, as to the physical description of any lot and as to whether any lot has been damaged or repaired.
Whilst every care will be taken, the Committee and Auctioneer act as agents only and neither they nor the TPCS are responsible for the description of any lot.
All lots are put up for sale subject to any reserve price imposed by the vendor.
In order to complete the auction in the most efficient manner would members please note the procedure to be followed after the final lot has been sold.
1 All auction sales WILL BE SUBJECT TO £1.00 BUYERS PREMIUM FOR EACH LOT.
2 THE COMMISSION FOR LOTS SOLD OR UNSOLD IS £5.00 (Member) or £7.50 Non Member)
3 Successful bidders must proceed to the cashiers table where the Treasurer will receive their payment (cash or cheque payable to TPCS) and issue a Buyers Statement summarising the lot (s) they have bought.
4 The Buyers Statement should then be taken to the committee members officiating at the auction who will release the pot(s) accordingly.
5 Vendors will be given a Sellers Statement, which should be shown to the committee members officiating at the auction who will release unsold pot(s) accordingly.
Sellers will be paid the net amounts due to them by cheque within 21 DAYS AFTER THE AUCTION
