OCTOBER SALES.

GLASTON HOUSE,

SALE ON OCTOBER 27 AND 28.

HOUSES AND ESTATES SALES.

I have received definite instructions from Victoria Lady Carbery to sell by public auction on the premises the contents of Glaston House, Uppingham, Rutland, unless sold previously by private treaty. The estate, the mansion, and the contents can be sold in one lot, the price and full particulars of which can be had on application. If not sold, offers I will be received for the estate and mansion. On previous pages, Photograph No. 1 gives the west and south aspects; the kitchen garden is on the left. Photograph No. 2 gives the south aspect on the left, and on the right can be seen the eastern aspect, from which there is a long-distance view beyond the Glaston property. The residence comprises outer and main halls, three reception. rooms, ante-room or billiard-room, good-sized conservatory, eighteen bed and dressing-rooms, two bathrooms, and ample domestic offices.

THE GARDEN AND GROUNDS.-The grounds contain many beautiful trees, are pretty, and inexpensive to maintain. There are tennis and croquet lawns, shrubbery-walks and parklike meadows-in all about 26 acres.

POSITION.-The property is situated in the parish of Glaston, 2 miles from Uppingham and Seaton stations, 2 miles from Manton Junction and 3 miles from Manton, about 6 miles from Oakham, 10 miles from Stamford, 19 east of Leicester, and 90 from London.

SOIL chiefly sandy. TENURE freehold.

Hunting is ехсерtional, as the following packs are within easy reach-The Cottesmore, the late Mr. Fernie's, the Pytchley, the Fitzwilliam, and the Quorn Foxhounds. The Golf Course is only four miles distant.

The property includes pasture-land, 47.970

aores; pair of cottages, .401, the whole estate, with the pleasure grounds, etc., making a total of 74 acres.

Dam's Farm (97.834 acres) may be included if more property is required and sufficient is offered.

Dam's Farm is let on a yearly tenancy at a rental of £141 per

annum.

"SOUTHCLIFFE," LEE, NORTH DEVON.

FREEHOLD.

FOR SALE, BY PRIVATE TREATY. House and grounds (upwards of 25 acres) occupying best position in the beautiful Lee Valley, running down to sea between Ilfracombe and Morthoe. The property, 3 miles by road to Ilfracombe, 2 miles by Cliffe Walk; 14 miles to Barnstaple; 3 miles by Cliffe Walk to Morte Bay and Wollacombe Sands. House, five minutes from sea, three minutes church and postoffice, seven minutes golf-links. Railway, Morthoe Station L. and S.W. to Ilfracombe. May be viewed any day on production of note of introduction from W. E. Hurcomb, Calder House, Piccadilly, W.1, but it will be necessary to make appointment by letter to Mrs. Tugwell, Lee, North Devon. Vacant possession on completion of purchase.

House (wired for electric light) contains two drawing-rooms, study, dining-room, tiled hall, kitchen, servants' hall, photo dark room, lavatories (hot and cold), pantries, and usual offices.

The pasture-land (48 acres) is let on a yearly tenancy at £73 10s.; and the pair of cottages at £14 per annum. A large field (18 by 20 acres) is also to be sold.

MUDDLEBRIDGE HOUSE, FREMINGTON,
NORTH DEVON.

FOR SALE, choice RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, North Devon (between Barnstaple-Instow), 9 acres. Social and sporting district; mile to Fremington Station. Church, post-office; 22 miles Barnstaple, 6 miles Bideford. Creeper-clad old-fashioned residence, substantially built, fitted all modern conveniences, 200 yards carriage drive, independent hot-water supply, three reception, seven bed and dressing-rooms, bathroom, lavatories (hot and cold), store and cider rooms, gas fires most rooms, modern system drainage to river. Spacious slated and tiled outbuildings, stabling for three, coach-house, garage, cowhouses, kennels, hay and straw barns, etc. The grounds, attractively arranged, include well-stocked, walled-in kitchen garden, and orchards about 2 acres, flower-gardens and shrubberies about 1 acres, and 6 acres excellent pasture-land. Famous Westward Ho! golf links 9 miles off. Ideal country residence, ready immediate occupation, where pleasure farming on a small scale can be enjoyed. House in thorough good order inside and outside. Telephone connected.

From the Grounds.

Wine-cellar, billiardroom, and five good bedrooms on first floor; bathroom, dressingroom, store-room, etc., five bedrooms, boxroom, housemaids' closet on top floor. Beautiful woodlands and pastureland through which runs pretty little trout

stream, several fishponds, kitchen garden, two hothouses, large potting-shed, outbuildtwo-stall stable, ings, pigstys, etc.

The pleasure grounds include excellent tennis courts, two croquetlawns.

CRAWFORDTON
ESTATE,
GLENCAIRN,

County of Dumfries.

A very desirable residential and sporting Estate, fourteen miles from the county town of Dumfries, and eight miles from Thornhill. The Estate extends to 3,940 acres, or thereby, and includes eight farms, one being the home-farm, also extensive and valuable woodlands.

The mansion-house is an attractive modern residence, and overlooks one of the finest views in the county. It contains entrance-hall (cloak-room, etc.), with broad staircase leading to a spacious inner hall, handsome drawingroom, dining-room, with service-room and lift, library, boudoir, and smoking-room, ten bedrooms, and five dressing-rooms, four bathrooms, ample lavatory accommodation, cupboards, and housemaids' pantries. In addition, the nursery flat contains day and night nurseries, two bedrooms, bathroom and closet. There is very commodious servants'

accommodation consisting of nine bedrooms, butler's bedroom with plate-closet, butler's pantry, housekeeper's room, servants' hall, gun-room, bicycle-room, kitchen, scullery, with larders, laundry and wash-house, coal-cellar and two stores, bathroom and lavatory; floored attic over the whole house for box-rooms and storage. Gravitation water supply with hot and cold water throughout the house. The hot water is supplied by an independent boiler in the kitchen. House and offices are lit with electric light newly installed, dynamo being driven by hydraulic turbine. Drainage is in good order.

Seventy-four acres are well laid out, one of the features being large masses of rhododendrons, grouping of colourings being particularly effective; excellent tennis and croquet lawns; handsome entrance gate and lodge containing kitchen, scullery, and washhouse, sitting-room, and three bedrooms. The Gardens, extending to fully 1 acres sloping towards the south, are beautifully laid out, a special feature being the 1ock garden, containing some very fine and rare specimens of rock and alpine plants; two vineries and a greenhouse, also a good gardener's house containing kitchen, scullery, sitting-room, and two bedrooms, lighted with electricity.

The Offices include Garage for three motor-cars heated with hot-water pipes riding stable with one stall and two loose boxes, four-stalled stable, and harness-room. Power-house with turbine, dynamo electric switchboard, etc., also accumulator house.

A

good chauffeur's house is adjoining containing kitchen, scullery, and wash-house, and two rooms having electric light.

A commodious factor's house, forester's house, gamekeeper's house, and kennels and cottages for the usual estate employees, all in good order.

Jarbruck House, Offices, Garden and Grounds.-This house, nicely situated in its own grounds among some fine old timber, with avenue up to the house, contains dining-room, drawing-room, three bedrooms, day and night nurseries, bathroom, kitchen, scullery, housemaid's pantry, and three servants' bedrooms. Gravitation water supply.

Hunters Lodge, Offices, Garden, and Land.-This is also a pleasantly situated house, containing dining-room, drawing-room, four bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, milkhouse, and storeroom, and is also in fair order. Two pasture fields are let along with this subject, the grazing being of good quality. These subjects are let on yearly tenancy. Farms.-Four good dairy and mixed farms occupied by capable tenants, which are moderately rented. These are follows:

as

1. Castle Hill Farm, extending to about 329 acres, and let at a rent of £190.

2. Ingleston Farm, extending to about 389 acres, and let at a rent of £250.

3. Stewarton Farm, extending to about 430 acres, and let at a rent of £174.

4. Cairnside Farm, extending to about 36 acres, and let at a rent of £58.

The land along the River Cairn is particularly good; the buildings and fences on all the Farms are in a good state of repair.

The Home Farm of Crawfordton, Old Crawfordton and Hillhead, is in the occupation of the Proprietor, and contains some fine old pastures and meadows, together with some fair arable land and hill grazing. The Steading is modern, well equipped, and in good order, with a full

complement of Cottages. The Proprietor also occupies the Farms of Jarbruck and Castle-hill, which are chiefly pastoral, also the farm of Gaups Mill, on which there is some good arable and pasture land.

The small Village of Kirkland is on the Estate in which there are seven Cottages and a Smithy.

The Woodlands extend to 506 acres or thereby, of which 195

Jehoshaphat. I have now doffed my thirking-cap and donned my "sou'wester" in preparation of the full force of the hurricane that this unique advertisement will cause to blow from the north, south, east, and west. I have no doubt that I shall weather the storm and reach the harbour safely.

There are thousands, and perhaps tens of UNREDEEMED thousands, unredeemed balances in the hands PLEDGES. of pawnbrokers waiting to be had for the asking. The law says that unredeemed pledges must be sold by auction. if not redeemed or interest paid. It may be a three, six, or an

ordinary twelve months' contract, if the amount realised exceeds the interest up to the time of the auction sale, plus the amount advanced in the first place and 5 per cent. for auctioneer's commission, THE SURPLUS IS YOURS. Further, the pawnbroker must furnish an account of the sale any time within three years if asked to do so. The usual charge is one penny. About the middle of May a gentleman arrived with pawntickets

acres have recently been cleared of timber. The remainder contains a large proportion of larch, Scots fir, and oak of marketable sizes and well grown, about 130 acres of which could be cut without detracting from shelter or amenity.

Shootings and Fishings. The Shootings include grouse, black game, partridges, pheasants, woodcock, snipe, hares and rabbits, and a good bag can always be obtained There is a fair Trout

or pawnbrokers' contract notes, saying it was hopeless for him to ove dream of paying the £1,015 necessary to redeem them. Could I? Would I? "Yes," I replied. "And if there is any more to come after you have sold them, can I have the money within fourteen days, because I am going abroad?" "Yes," I promised, "the day after the sale, in view of your special need." Can you not imagine the astonishment of my visitor when he heard that after my usual commission was raid there was no less than £2,800 surplus available for him?

fishing in the River Cairn, which flows through the Estate, 2 miles of one bank, and 1 mile of both banks

JEHOSHAPHAT. In my last week's advertisement I alluded to Sir Harry Lauder and his Bible-class, etc., drawing a comparison with myself, and said I am not alone in my unconventional style and methods. Almost directly my copy appeared, the Premier told us to "Put on our sou'westers," and links Mr. Asquith and Jehoshaphat." Well, I put my thinking cap on, and the force of the comparison slowly dawned upon me. The King of Judah, referred to by the Premier, was regarded as a pious king, but, alas! he made some very ungodly friendships, which brought about a lot of trouble. I am proud of Mr. Lloyd George, and admire this intimate knowledge of Holy Writ, and I intend to take a hint from his reference to Jehoshaphat. I will not ally myself in business with those who refuse to carry on in the way I wish, lest I merit the same fate as befel King

THOSE

The Times of August 31st supplies interesting information RUSSIAN and illustrations of some of the Russian jewels. Mr. W. E.

JEWELS. Hurcomb recalls some very

On Novem

noteworthy facts. ber 27th last year, the very day the famous row of pearls, alleged to have belonged to the mother of Peter the Great, was offered at auction by Mr. Hurcomb with a reserve of £300,000 (three hundred thousand pounds), the catalogue was headed "By order of the descendants of an Imperial Dynasty.' Lot 120 in the same sale was described as a magnificent blue white drop-shaped brilliant, about 33 carats, exactly the size and shape as the one illustrated in the Times, and realised £7,300 (seven thousand three hundred pounds). One hundred and seventy lots were sold; one emerald out of pendant, it is interesting to note in connection with the Times report, sold for not less than £5,000 (five thousand poun:ls).

Mr. Hurcom' was in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark last May, and brought back a fabulous amount of jewels for a Russian of very high rank, and last October in Switzerland on a similar errand.

The Editor of TRUTH says:-"Nowhere else will you get a better price or more honest advice." This statement was made years ago, and he repeats it to-day with added emphasis. Thousands of letters of appreciation can be seen from the Royal Family downwards testifying to the fact that I have been paying one, two, three, and even eight times as much as had been offered at other firms.

man in charge. I attended at great inconvenience, putting off other important engagements. After inspecting the jewels and giving them useful information, I was asked to call again late in the evening. I did so, and quite expected to have the honour of doing the work. I mentioned to the reverend gentleman what I had been doing for the S.P.G., C.M.S., and other charities, the amount being not far short of FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS since the outbreak of war. I was informed that another firm were competing, but I strongly advised Public Auction, that I would guarantee a price for every article before sale and probably obtain ever so much more (as is my usual custom). The other firm apparently offered to do the whole of the business gratis. I had also promised to do all without fee or reward, but so far have not had the courtesy of the "thank you" for the time and trouble involved, which one invariably receives in business circles.

SOME

If any doubter will drop me a line, I will furnish him with such an array of appreciaAPPRECIATIONS. tive letters received from members of the legal profession that will more than convince him that he cannot be in better hands than mine. Read for yourself the following extracts from letters the originals of which have been seen by the managers or editors of the newspapers. "I am greatly obliged for cheque £73 1s. 6d. Sale most satisfactory, and I shall not fail to let my friends know of your suc cessful dealing on my behalf."

"West London.

Many thanks for cheque £341 4s. 6d. We are quite pleased with the result of the sale of the diamonds at auction."

Swansea.

"Thank you for cheque. The fair manner in which you have conducted this transaction makes it a pleasure to deal with you." "6 Hereford. "Receipt for cheque enclosed. I am quite satisfied with the amount, as it is £16 more than was offered by a London firm." "Deal.

"We are more than satisfied, as we feel sure we should not have done so well anywhere else."

From a firm of well-known lawyers in London:

"Yours, with cheque, duly to hand. We feel sure that our client will be greatly delighted with the excellent result you have obtained for her, and which we think has exceeded her highest

THE WANT SUPPLIED.

our

I have secured the help of two of the smartest men in the house and estate branch of the profession. One of them was London manager to one of the best-known firms in London, and the other from the best-known firm in London, skilled with a knowledge of country work. They will carry out your instructions on MY LINES, and I believe that before long this Department will become as successful as the Jewels and Plate Department. But, as the Premier's present-day Jehoshaphat once said, Wait and see."

expectations. For ourselves, may we say how much we appreciate the businesslike way you have carried out the transaction? A titled lady writes from Scotland:

Thank you very much for the cheque £2,354 (two thousand three hundred and fifty-four pounds)."

"" 'Norfolk.

"I have received cheques £2,459 3s. I am really very well satisfied at the price, and wish to thank you. It is very satisfactory to find anyone who is so straightforward to deal with in a matter of this kind, and it, of course, encourages us all to put them in your hands."

"Dear Mr. Hurcomb,-We are most grateful to you for all the trouble you have taken, and really astonished at the sum realised. Your method of business seems to be quite wonderful-your clients getting full value while your charges are so extremely moderate. We consider ourselves very fortunate to have put ourselves in your hands after our experience some years ago. I think I told you the result of a transaction we had with a well-known artdealer. We only received £30 for a miniature (left us by will) of a pretty young girl by Andrew Plimer. We had then no idea of the value of Plimer's miniatures. While in the shop the dealer produced from a safe a miniature by Plimer of a plain woman who was considered to resemble the subject of our miniature enough to be her mother. Evidently our pretty miniature was to be thrown in to save the situation, so you can imagine our feelings when we read in a paper shortly afterwards the sale of two valuable miniatures Mother and Daughter,' by Andrew Plimer, for £1,000!"

to

Dear Mr. Hurcomb,-I must add one line to my wife's letter to thank you cordially for your consideration and the sum you have

sent so very much in excess of anything I had expected. Mrs. has given you a history of our attempt to realise value in the sale of a miniature, and how we dismally failed. If you care to make any use of this little episode, please suppress our name."

A high Civil Service official writes:-" Please accept my grateful thanks for the cheque you sent me yesterday. I am told that the price realised for the antique ring, through your good offices, is very nearly twice as much as was offered by the dealer locally. What surprised me almost as much as the price is the speed with which Most the sale has been effected and the purchase-money paid over. sincerely, I wish you every success in your new offices."

'Musselburgh.

"I beg to acknowledge cheque £114 4s. 2d. I am very glad I sent the jewels to you for sale, as the result far exceeded my expectations." "Hove.

"Letter enclosing cheque £87 8s. 4d. received. I hasten to acknowledge it, and wish to express my great satisfaction at the price realised by the sale of my diamond bracelet. This I consider very gratifying, and is much in excess of the amount I expected to receive. Thanking you for the trouble you have taken.'

Sidcup. "Mr. and Mrs. thank Mr. Hurcomb for cheque £14 18s. 11d., which they consider satisfactory."

66

'Kensington, W. Thank you for cheque £3,140 6s. 2d. I consider the result is very satisfactory, and shall be glad to deal with you again." "Herts.

"I received your cheque for £1,860 14s. 7d. Thank you for successful result of the sale of my jewels." "Chesham.

"I have pleasure in enclosing cheque for valuation of silver, and wish to express my thanks for the way the work was carried out. The information was very interesting and instructive. I may pos sibly decide to sell some of the silver, and, if so, shall be glad to place the business in your hands."

"I am much obliged for cheque £46 19s. 6d., and thank you for the trouble you took in selling the silver jug. I may have some more things to dispose of later on."

The following sentences have been taken haphazardly from letters received during the last two or three weeks:

A gentleman writes: "Thank you for your cheque and for your courtesy and trouble in the sale of my coins, which is quite satisfactory."

Another letter from the East Coast. The writer says: "I am much obliged for all the trouble you have taken, and for the good prices you have received for my things. I am recommending you to my friends."

A letter from the Midlands concludes: "Your price is a better one than anything I was offered in Birmingham, and I am much obliged to you."

"I have to acknowledge with thanks cheque £108 8s., and wish to add that I am well satisfied with the result of sale, and cannot speak too highly of your straightforward conduct right through the negotiations. It will always be a pleasure to me to recommend you to any one requiring such business done, in an honest and fairdealing manner."

"Bermondsey. "I thank you for your cheque, value £1,579-being payment for sale of diamond necklace."

'Omagh. "I did not offer the forks to any other firm, but what I meant was, that if I had not read your advertisements in TRUTH, which first gave me the idea of selling them, I might have let them go for very much less than you got for them (£300), because, as I think I told you, a London firm had valued them for insuranceat £95!"

な

"Eastbourne.

'The sale of our plate has realised indeed a sum far beyond what we even supposed it would. I am certain that if I had taken it to any ordinary shop in the West End I should not have been offered one half £693-the amount you secured for us. You represent a type of business man who seems to stand quite apart from most of your fellow-creatures in not taking advantage of the inexperience and ignorance of those who have dealings with them.

The Rev. (Kent): Sept. 3. I beg to acknowledge cheque £115 2s. 6d., for goods sold, and thank you for your valuable help in disposing of them."

A lady (Cumberland) writes: "I have this evening received your cheque, for which I thank you. I consider result of sale entirely satisfactory, and considerably in advance of another offer I was made for my silver."

The Rev. R. S. T. Haslehurst, B.D., writes from the Parsonage, Camberley, July 22nd:-"I feel I must write and thank you for the excellent prices obtained for the jewellery you sold for me. More than double that offered by the valuer whom my lawyer employed. Such facts speak for themselves. Pray make what use you like of

my name.'

"Dear Mr. Hurcomb,-You will remember at my invitation calling on me (Easter, 1916) in Devonshire, and, without fee, very kindly making a few valuations for me, and later that I had a diamond star from you which you expressed your willingness to take back if necessity arose for £45. A few days ago, having de. cided to sell, you saw me again at my London house, and advised me to let the jewels be included in your auction sale of January 10th, giving it as your opinion that it would realise between £60 and

£70. This being so, you can imagine my delight on learning from your letter of to-day's date that it had actually sold for £81, and that I should receive this amount less 6 per cent. commission. "I can only thank you, and give you full permission to publish this with my name in full.-Yours truly, "R. L. MORRIS, Major (retired)." "Kensington, S.W. "Lady begs to acknowledge receipt of £127 10s. 4d, from Mr. Hurcomb for the sale of her silver. She is quite satisfied with the result of the sale."

"Park Lane, W. begs to acknowledge Mr. Hurcomb's cheque for £182 10s. for goods sent for sale. He is extremely obliged to you for obtaining such satisfactory results."

Kensington, W.

"I am very pleased with the amount of cheque (£104 6s. 9d.), especially for the sum of £81 for diamond pendant, as I took it to a well-known firm, who said they could only give £50 for it."

Kensington, W. "Thank you for cheque £3,140 6s. 2d. I consider the result is very satisfactory, and shall be glad to deal with you again." "Devon.

"Mrs. H. begs to acknowledge Mr. Hurcomb's cheque (£470). She was very pleased with the result of the sale of her necklace." "Folkestone.

"I beg to acknowledge cheque £1,817 Os. 4d. on account of sale of jewellery, for which please accept my best thanks." "Yeovil. "Cheque £1,030 4s. 9d. received. I am very satisfied with the result of the sale."

"Kensington, S.W. "Thank you for selling the stars and daggers so satisfactorily and for your moderate charges. Receipt enclosed for £659 8s. 2d. for diamond stars and antique daggers sold at your auction."

"I thank you very much for cheque £77 6s. in settlement of the sale of the jewellery. I shall call on you again when I have our goods out of warehouse, as I have various objects of art which I think will interest you." "Milford.

is obliged for cheque £1,974, safely received."

"Hants.

66

The sum of £35 which was realised I consider very good, which could not be far short of the value when new. I gave £25 for the watch 18 years ago, and I doubt if the chain cost more than £10. I trust the heart-pin you are selling for me will fetch an equally good price." "Bath.

"I beg to acknowledge cheque and to thank you very sincerely for having got me a good price for the forks and strainer. I shall be sending to you again before long, and have mentioned your name to a friend."

"London, N.W. "Thank you for cheque. The sale of the ring realised more than I expected.' "Swansea. "Thank you for cheque. The fair manner in which you have conducted this transaction makes it a pleasure to deal with you." "Deal. "We are more than satisfied, as we feel sure we should not have done so well anywhere else."

The Editor of this journal has seen a bundle of over 1,000 letters received during the last few months as complimentary as that from the Public Trustee, which follows: "I am directed by the Public Trustee to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th inst., enclosing cheque for £257 10s. in payment for the two three-stone diamond rings and the pair of single-stone diamond earrings, for which I am to thank you. The Public Trustee much appreciates the trouble you took over this matter, and thinks the result a very satisfactory one."

My sales take place every week, two or three days, as a rule. If you doubt and fear to trust me with your jewels and silver which you want to sell while the market is up, then ask your country bank to send goods to the head office in London, or instruct your local lawyer to forward them to his London Agents (who are always solicitors), and I will call, inspect, and give my valuation.

But you need not doubt; the testimony of TRUTH should be sufficient. The Editor has said that I have a wide and honourable reputation, that nowhere else will you get a better price or more honest advice, and, further, an expert valuer second to none in the land!

The Bazaar says:-" HE IS THE BEST.”
Observer:-" Very satisfied with Hurcomb."

The Guardian has said:-"The secret of Mr. Hurcomb's success lies unquestionably in his expert knowledge, his willingness to pay full value, his integrity, and his courteous business methods." Other papers are equally unanimously and in accord.

One of the lots from the Public Trustee at a recent sale was a diamond necklace placed in my hands by that official at the request of the lady interested. This necklace cost £500 at a well-known firm. At one of my sales it was sold to a dealer at the sensational price of £1,375. Should this same article find its way to the West End again for resale, probably £2,500 will be asked and obtained for it.

I value, buy, and sell at auction jewels, ancient plate, old Sheffield, modern silver, motor-cars, etc. Rare stamps and stamp collections purchased. Special experts for porcelain, engravings, pictures, work of art. Auction and Estate Agents. Valuations for all purposes, inventories made for probate, fire and other insurances, household effects, etc.-castle or cottage.