Lucy
Mar 06, 2010, 01:12 AM
John Crane discovers some Punch & Judy treasures and Beatles memorabilia from the Casbah days
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-life/liverpool-lifestyle/2010/03/06/john-crane-discovers-some-punch-judy-treasures-and-beatles-memorabilia-from-the-casbah-days-100252-25971193/
‘‘THAT’S the way to do it! That’s the way to do it!’’
I can hear it now, Mr Punch of Professor Codman’s famous Punch and Judy show on St George’s plateau when I was a child in the late 1950s.
Before the show was on St George’s plateau it was located on an island in the road near Lime Street station. Professor Codman started his shows in Llandudno in the 1860s and thence to Liverpool.
Cheeky Mr Punch, who always cocked a snook at the policeman, with his fellow puppets entertained generations of Liver- pool children and they’re sadly missed.
Now, if you think you have the ability to project your voice with a swazzle in your throat, we have the very things for you in our David Dickinson auction on April 7. We have what we believe to be some of Prof Codman’s early puppets. The first ones were carved from driftwood and then painted.
Also in that auction there is a collection of fascinating Punch and Judy memorabilia from a local collector. It is a very specialised market but one worth watching.
Another rare find this week was a large Wedgwood parian-ware unglazed bust of a notable Freemason complete with regalia. It is about 15in high and probably a very rare piece and again could be good for long-term investment.
Other interesting discoveries this week include a handwritten note on Mardi Gras headed notepaper from Ringo Starr arranging to see an admirer. On the note he says ‘‘Don’t be late!’’ There were also four Beatles autographs, a Casbah Club membership card and the typed lyrics, with pen alterations and notes, acquired from the Apple Studios of the song My Little Pony.
Rare items indeed and sure to find willing buyers at the auction in August at LIPA. Any more Beatles stuff around? Liverpool Institute school photographs with Paul McCartney and George Harrison on them can be worth hundreds of pounds in good condition. The small Green Book with Institute schoolboys’ names in it is now worth about £200. So into the attic over the weekend please!
A collection of memories is good ... and free. I have just spent an hour chatting to Judith from St Barnabas church in Penny Lane. They have some pews to dispose of. Did Paul McCartney ever really sing in the choir there? If he did it could make them very valuable. No one seems to be able to confirm it.
Finally, gold has reached an all-time high this week and £25,000 worth went under my hammer last Tuesday.
If there are any churches who need to raise funds, a good idea is to have a scrap and unused jewellery and gold sovereign collection and we will collect and sell it for you.
If you are a private seller then just drop in to the auction rooms in Stanhope Street and we can enter any unwanted gold items into our next auction for you.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-life/liverpool-lifestyle/2010/03/06/john-crane-discovers-some-punch-judy-treasures-and-beatles-memorabilia-from-the-casbah-days-100252-25971193/
‘‘THAT’S the way to do it! That’s the way to do it!’’
I can hear it now, Mr Punch of Professor Codman’s famous Punch and Judy show on St George’s plateau when I was a child in the late 1950s.
Before the show was on St George’s plateau it was located on an island in the road near Lime Street station. Professor Codman started his shows in Llandudno in the 1860s and thence to Liverpool.
Cheeky Mr Punch, who always cocked a snook at the policeman, with his fellow puppets entertained generations of Liver- pool children and they’re sadly missed.
Now, if you think you have the ability to project your voice with a swazzle in your throat, we have the very things for you in our David Dickinson auction on April 7. We have what we believe to be some of Prof Codman’s early puppets. The first ones were carved from driftwood and then painted.
Also in that auction there is a collection of fascinating Punch and Judy memorabilia from a local collector. It is a very specialised market but one worth watching.
Another rare find this week was a large Wedgwood parian-ware unglazed bust of a notable Freemason complete with regalia. It is about 15in high and probably a very rare piece and again could be good for long-term investment.
Other interesting discoveries this week include a handwritten note on Mardi Gras headed notepaper from Ringo Starr arranging to see an admirer. On the note he says ‘‘Don’t be late!’’ There were also four Beatles autographs, a Casbah Club membership card and the typed lyrics, with pen alterations and notes, acquired from the Apple Studios of the song My Little Pony.
Rare items indeed and sure to find willing buyers at the auction in August at LIPA. Any more Beatles stuff around? Liverpool Institute school photographs with Paul McCartney and George Harrison on them can be worth hundreds of pounds in good condition. The small Green Book with Institute schoolboys’ names in it is now worth about £200. So into the attic over the weekend please!
A collection of memories is good ... and free. I have just spent an hour chatting to Judith from St Barnabas church in Penny Lane. They have some pews to dispose of. Did Paul McCartney ever really sing in the choir there? If he did it could make them very valuable. No one seems to be able to confirm it.
Finally, gold has reached an all-time high this week and £25,000 worth went under my hammer last Tuesday.
If there are any churches who need to raise funds, a good idea is to have a scrap and unused jewellery and gold sovereign collection and we will collect and sell it for you.
If you are a private seller then just drop in to the auction rooms in Stanhope Street and we can enter any unwanted gold items into our next auction for you.