Auctioneer and Appraisal Services
ONLINE AUCTION PREVIEW NOW ON
How to Register to Bid
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- Click on View Auction link
- Click on Login/New Bidder
- Create a HiBid account OR
- If you already have a HiBid account, then you can click on the black bar at the bottom of the screen where it says “Register to Bid”
- Enter a payment method making sure that the address you enter is the same as that on the statement of the credit card that you’re using
- Read the terms and conditions and check the agree box
- Submit the registration 8. You will get a notice on the screen confirming your registration
If you are unable to bid on line, we are accepting absentee bids which we will execute on your behalf. Contact us – 902-860-0111 or office@crowther-brayley.com
ALEX COLVILLE – LOT 65
32nd ANNUAL SUMMER AUCTION
TIMED ONLINE AUCTION
ONLINE AUCTION – FRIDAY, JUNE 20 TO THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2025
FRIDAY, JUNE 20 – ONLINE BIDDING OPENS – 8 AM ET
THURSDAY, JUNE 26 – STAGGERED SOFT CLOSE BEGINS – 6 PM (7 PM NS AST)
Artwork, jewellery, pottery, china, sterling, 18th & 19th century furniture, Loetz glass, 60 Lorenzen mushrooms, Lorenzen, Deichmann, Taylor, Powning, Donovan, Smith & Beveridge pottery. Featuring artwork by Alex Colville, Tom Forrestall, Dusan Kadlec, Anthony Law, Adrian Dingle, John Little, Tom Roberts, Ron Bolt, Marguerite Zwicker, etc. Pair of fine diamond drop earrings, gold, silver & gemstone jewellery. Signed NS Windsor chairs by Gammon, Vinecove, Cole, Fellows, Humeston. Tabriz Baktiary carpets. 19th century transit, London. Hester Bateman sugar shaker, Geo. III salver, collection of NS sterling flatware including Nordbeck, Cornelius, Brown, etc.
Also including an Arthur Lismer oil painting of the Old Bedford Golf Course with Andrew J. Cobb provenance
PICKING UP YOUR ITEMS
PICKING UP YOUR ITEMS
Pickup Times:
9:30 – 3:30 pm – Saturday, June 28th
9:30 – 3:30 pm – Sunday, June 29th
OR
At another time by arrangement.
PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL AHEAD FOR PICK UP LOCATION AND TO INDICATE WHAT TIME YOU PLAN TO COME SO THAT WE MAY HAVE YOUR ITEM OR ITEMS READY. FOR FURNITURE OR RUGS, PLEASE GIVE ONE DAY’S ADVANCE NOTICE FOR COLLECTION
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
We offer complimentary delivery of smaller items in Halifax, Dartmouth & Bedford. Complimentary delivery is not applicable to furniture or large rugs but reasonably priced trucking can be arranged.
PACKING & SHIPPING AVAILABLE BY ARRANGEMENT – CALL OR EMAIL: office@crowther-brayley.com
How to Register to Bid
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- Click on View Auction link
- Click on Login/New Bidder
- Create a HiBid account OR
- If you already have a HiBid account, then you can click on the black bar at the bottom of the screen where it says “Register to Bid”
- Enter a payment method making sure that the address you enter is the same as that on the statement of the credit card that you’re using
- Read the terms and conditions and check the agree box
- Submit the registration 8. You will get a notice on the screen confirming your registration
If you are unable to bid on line, we are accepting absentee bids which we will execute on your behalf. Contact us – 902-860-0111 or office@crowther-brayley.com
Crowther and Brayley Services
Paul Henry
F.H Varley 12×14.5
Crowther & Brayley Ltd. has been in business now for over 30 years. Below are some of the highlights of those years.
- First auction house in Nova Scotia to sell a work of art for over $100,000, not once, but three times.
- First auction house in Nova Scotia to advertise nationally including the Globe and Mail, the Montreal Gazette, etc.
- First auction house in Nova Scotia to advertise internationally including the Antiques Trade Gazette, London published weekly, Arts & The Antiques Weekly, USA
- Roger Crowther & Bill Brayley appeared as appraisers on the CBC TV produced program The Antiques Roadshow
- Other highlights include top prices
- $27,000 for Dusan Kadlec, Yarmouth Harbour
- $24,000 for Maud Lewis, Digby Pines, 9 x 11”
- $27,000 for Maud Lewis, Oxen Team Ploughing
- Group of Seven – $75,000 – A. J. Casson
- $60,000 – Frederick Horsman Varley
- Russian silver miniature ciborium, c.1760 – $37,000
- Mosque lamp, $8,700
- Irish Bog, oil on canvas by Paul Henry – $70,000
- Tortoiseshell and pewter inlaid European cabinet – $27,500
- “Playing at the Beach” by Jan Zoetelief Tromp, oil on canvas – $85,000
- Serape oriental carpet, 10 x 14” – $12,000
- Fisherman in a Dory by Jack Gray $42,000
