Wellers Auctioneers of Chertsey were favoured with instructions from Ray Radnedge to conduct a mainly unreserved auction of all of the stock on his premises including reclaimed materials in the yard, showroom stock, church, chapel and large salvaged features. The sale attracted a large number of local and national buyers with international interest from the USA, Canada and Europe.
 
The entire 1,300 lots were offered on one day, some 400 lots in the yard were sold without internet bidding, notwithstanding this the auctioneer had a good company of buyers with him for the duration of that part of the auction where bidding remained brisk and the online buyers not significantly missed. This part of the sale included granite cobbles to £85 tonne, Bath stone wall coping to £3.50 ft, random flagstone to £20 square yard, Victorian driveway gates to £200, similar pedestrian gates to £110, 20 pallets of carboniferous limestone feature stone £3,400, stable blocks sold to 70p each, salt glazed pavers to £1 each, hexagonal quarry tiles to £32 square yard, Indian fossil mint sandstone to £13 square yard. As expected there was little demand for roof tiles, small quantities of bricks, painted fireplaces and painted doors.
 
The remaining 900 lots were sold from the pulpit rostrum in the main building with live internet bidding available. This section of the auction included all of the major lots and there was stiff competition from all buyers in the room, online and on the telephone to secure the best of these including some of Ray's favourite items such as the scratch-built summerhouse, a collections of cast iron tractor seats, enamel signs and old hand tools.
 
The best items were in the final 300 lots and many prices exceeded expectation including: cast iron fountain £650, large pair of Caxton Hall cast iron brackets £280, Victorian mahogany long case clock by Llanelli maker L. Furlwengler £900, a rare Cobra Polishes mirror £420, Georgian fire basket £800, an early Fish & Chip frying range £3,000, Firestone enamel sign £340, pair of lion pier cap marble statues £3,800, large carved statue of a River Queen £3,200, scratch-built garden summerhouse £4,000, eleven Victorian sandstone cluster columns £7,700, large pairs of restored Victorian driveway gates to £3,000, large quantity of foundry moulds £1,100, pair of tall marble statues depicting a Herculean figure £3,800, seven large Victorian Bath stone columns £11,200, restored cast iron ended benches to £700, large carved sandstone statue of Lion and Cubs £6,200, pair of large stone Griffins £4,800, approx 230 square yards of pennant flagstone £14,500. Sadly one of the few major lots that failed to sale were the two fireplaces believed to be by William Burges, however this was more than made up for by the sale of the undoubted largest lot of the day, the Victorian Bath stone bell tower which after being keenly fought for made £20,000 against an estimate of £10,000 to £15,000.
 
All hammer prices quoted exclude VAT and Auctioneers premium
 
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