SEPTEMBER has been an excellent month in the saleroom for Greenslade Taylor Hunt with superb results for the antiques and collectors sales.

However a sale can only happen with a good array of entries and to make life easier for potential vendors the antiques experts will be hitting the road to visit branch offices in Somerset and Devon to provide verbal valuations closer to home in October, November and December.

These visits also provide vendors with the opportunity to consign entries for the monthly antiques, quarterly collectors and biannual sporting sales.

The experts will visit the Bridgwater office at 31-33 High Street, Bridgwater, between 2pm-4pm on Monday, October 10. The following Saturday, October 15, between 10am and 12 noon they will attend Sedgemoor Auction Centre, North Petherton. On Thursday, October 20, they will visit the Ilminster office at 15 East Street, between 9am-11am and the Chard office at 1 High Street, between 12 noon and 2pm.

Other dates at the same offices have been arranged for November and December along with sessions in South Molton and Tiverton.

The September antiques sale at The Octagon Salerooms, East Reach, Taunton, attracted much pre-sale interest, in particular a bronze bust by Alfred Drury, a significant figure in the New Sculpture movement. On sale day two, phone lines joined the fray, and initially all the action was on the internet as the bidding opened at £400. However it was a room bidder who eventually won the day. He bought the signed and dated bust for £2,270. This was the top lot of the day. A different room bidder secured an Art Deco bronze figure of a stylised lioness. This featured on the front of the sale catalogue. He bought this for £360.

A beautiful collection of nine Chinese rice paper paintings, each depicting figures in a court setting proved another desirable lot. A phone bidder eventually lost out to a net bidder, who bought the collection for £840.

Two sales are set for October – the regular monthly antiques sale and the biannual sporting sale. The Autumn Sporting Sale takes place on Friday, October 7, and there is an excellent entry in the paintings and prints section. There are two good Donald Ayres oil on canvas signed paintings of local interest. One is of the Exmoor Hunt in the Doone Valley and the other is titled At Tarr Steps. Both have pre-sale estimates of between £300 and £400. Both have been consigned from Berkshire, which shows the reach and high regard the sporting sale is held in.

There is also a fine selection of sporting prints by notable artists including Lionel Edwards, Cecil Aldin and Snaffles.

Entries are being finalised and a full catalogue will be ready for the first view day which takes place on Saturday, October 1.

For more information on the sporting sale contact saleroom manager, Stuart Triggol, who is the driving force behind the event, on 01823-332525.