Stock ref: DS2243
Circa 1900
A excellent example of a K.S.I.A. small circular copper dish chased with a typical stylised flower head to the centre, the outer lip scalloped.
Signed KSIA.
Size: 11(dia) x 1(h)cm
Sold
{gallery}DS2243{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS2249
2004
An excellent example of the highly popular 5′ solid English Oak Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson Sideboard. Of rectangular form with an hand adzed top with rear upstand with panelled sides and rear. The front features a bank of 3 graduated central drawers, the top one baize lined and compartmentalized for cutlery, flanked each side by panelled cupboards with inner fixed shelving. Wrought iron door fittings and wooden drawr knobs. A signature mouse is carved prominently to the front left canted corner. The sideboard stands on four octagonally carved legs.
Cleaned and re-waxed in our workshop, the top stripped and re-sealed with polyurethane, as originally finished at R. Thompson’s, to enhance the heat and stain resistance. It presents with no stains and a lovely warm mellow medium fumed and waxed finish, the drawers and cupboards lovely and clean.
It is also complete with the original order and invoice details.
Size: 152.5(w) x 47(d) (50 incl door knobs) x 82(h)cm
Sold
{gallery}DS2249{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS2265
Circa late 1930s/40s
A wonderfully coloured and patinated example of an early solid oak Ashtray from the workshop of Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson. Large mouse carving with particularly neatly carved whiskars. There’s a chip to one ear and some evidence in the bowl of usage as originally intended. Overall, a very good honest used early piece.
Size: 10.3(w) x 7.3(d) x 4.5(h)cm
Sold
{gallery}DS2265{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS2264
Circa late 1930s/40s
An excellent example of the highly sought after solid oak 9 1/4″ Fruitbowl by Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson. Adzed and tooled all over with a wonderful rich depth of colour and patina with no cracks or breakages and an excellent mouse carving to the
Prices for these earlier made fruitbowls are rising very rapidly, only a week ago we witnessed a £ 1300 hammer price at a very well know auction house for Mouseman pieces (£ 1612 incl buyers premium).
Privately purchased and sensibly priced. Proof that auction houses aren’t necessarily the place to ‘bag a bargain’ when it comes to ‘Mouseman and the Critters’ pieces. We are experienced enough to know the current trade and retail values of particular pieces.
Size: 23.5(dia) x 7.5(h)cm
Sold
{gallery}DS2264{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS2229 SET
1996
An excellent refurbished solid oak Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson Dining Set, comprising a 5′ refectory style adzed table with 6 of Robert’s favorite adzed Panel Back Dining Chairs with their original butterscotch leather hide upholstery.
The table features a 4 plank adzed top supported on two octagonally carved baluster legs with sledge feet, joined by an adzed floor set stretcher. A signature mouse is carved in high relief on one of the legs. The partially worn original polyurathane finished top has been fully chemically stripped and re-applied with multiple spay coats of the original clear satin polyurathane finish used, to give a stain and heat resistant finish. Finally finished with clear wax to the top, legs and feet. Presents in excellent condition with wonderful medullary ray graining visible in the oak.
The chairs are all structurally solid and the frames have been cleaned of the usual stains, grime and spalshes, and re-waxed. They are a matched set, all six chairs made by the same craftsman as denoted by the same mouse carving to each chair. There’s a small wood chip to the lower leg of one and a hairline around a dowel joint on one back panel, both of which we’ve photographed in the image gallery below. All chairs present with their original butterscotch hide which has been cleaned and conditioned and good solid underfoams.
Privately acquired from the original owners family in North Yorkshire, together with a number of other items of Mouseman and Acornman furniture.
We have a preference to keep the table and chairs together as a set, but will also consider selling the table and six chairs separately.
The current new price for this set at Robert Thompson’s is £ 8,370 ( table £2,910, 6 chairs £5,460)
Size: Table 153(w) x 87.5(w) x 74(h)cm, Chairs 44.5(w) x 43(d) x 85(h)cm
Please contact us to discuss pricing of the full dining set, or the table and chairs separately.
{gallery}DS2229_SET{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS2244
1952
An excellent solid oak Standard Lamp from the Windermere, Cumbria workshop of Stanley Webb Davies, the renowned Cotswold School trained Arts and Crafts furniture maker. Stanley Webb Davies pieces are rare to the market and increasingly highly sought after, representing understated Arts and Crafts furniture at its very best, in the Cotswold School style of Gimson, Romney Green and the Barnsley’s. Displaying the very finest cabinet making techniques and skills combined with meticulous attention to the smallest details.
Signed and dated to the base in the expected SWD manner, made by Richard ‘Dickie’ Cloudsdale. There is also a label to the base confirming the lamp was re-wired with modern period braided 3 core eathed wiring in 2018 by the David Turner Workshop, a leading London based vintage lighting resoration specialist.
A rare and highly useable piece of furniture which presents in full working order and wonderful original wax over linseed oiled condition, the usual finish SWD applied. The only very minor usage damage we can see is a few tiny nicks on one facet edge in the middle of the central stem, shown in the image gallery below.
Sold
{gallery}DS2244{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS2252
Circa 1960s/70s
An excellent solid oak Side Table & Seat from the ex Mouseman craftsman Fred Suffield. Fred is the original ‘Oakleafman’, this signature was later revived again in 1986 by David Langstaff. In later life Fred also worked with Sid Pollard. In wonderful condition, made for family friends and bought by us privately from them with Fred’s beautifully carved oakleaf in high relief to the seat end. Original thick aniline cow hide seat with wonderful colour and patina, with just a few expected marks which are always seen on these earlier untreated hides. The medium fumed oak framework is solid and has been sympathetically re-waxed, the hide cleaned and conditioned.
Size: 91(w) x 40.5(d) x 69(h)cm. Seat 46(h)cm.
Sold
{gallery}DS2252{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS1901
Circa 1980
An excellent two tier oak Serving Trolley from ex Mouseman craftsman Albert ‘Eagleman’ Jeffray of Sessay, near Thirsk. Of typical rectangular form with two adzed shelves supported on four corner legs and castors, his signature eagle incised in the end of the lower shelf. Medium oak fumed.
Size: 86.5(w) x 39.5(d) x 71(h)
Sold
{gallery}DS1901{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS2015
Circa 1960s
A superb example of Tom Whittaker’s artisan craftsmanship. The Yorkshire oak dresser features a detachable, adzed, three tier plate rack, with carved cornice over the top and shaped sides. The lower section also features extensive adzing, is of rectangular shape and comprises three oak panelled cupboards with an internal shelf, intersected with carved linen fold panels and three drawers below each cupboard door. It stands on shaped and waisted sides with sledge feet and a carved undulating cross stretcher which is pegged in the traditional manner. Traditional wrought iron fittings and his trademark gnome carved to the front right corner of the upper rack.
Cleaned and rewaxed in our workshop it presents in superb condition internally and externally. The interior cupboard shelves have been protected by lining paper from new.
Thomas whittaker (1910 -1991) lived and worked in Littlebeck, near Whitby, North Yorkshire. His trademark gnome is carved onto all his work and was inspired by the legend that a gnome is born each time an acorn germinates and will guard that tree throughout its life. His work is now nearly as well known as Robert Thompson’s. His business ceased on his death and his former home and workshop is now a private residence. For those interested in learning more about his life and work i attach a link to a British Pathe newsreel from 1961. Gnomeman Thomas Whittaker
Size: 137(w) x 40(d) x 184.5(h)cm
Sold
{gallery}DS2015{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS2247
Circa 1990s
An excellent solid oak Storage / Blanket Chest by ‘Yorkshire Critters’ craftsman Geoff ‘Unicornman’ Gell, who founded his own business Coxwold Cabinet Makers in 1987 along with ex Mouseman partner Jonathan Dixon.
Typical multi panelled and pinned construction with a shaped plinth base and signature unicorn carving to the lower right. Excellent overall exterior condition, superb interior storage. Lighter golden oak finish.
Size: 104(w) x 49.5(d) x 65.5(h)cm
Sold
{gallery}DS2247{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS2251
Circa late 1930s / early 1940s
Just arrived and awaiting a sympathetic clean, photographed in the image gallery below ‘as purchased’.
A beautifully coloured and patinated early made dining set from the Kilburn workshops of Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson, made within his lifetime. Features a 3′ square adzed and dowelled top dining table supported on an adzed cruciform pedestal legged central column supported on adzed crossed feet. A superb early fat mouse carving to the cruciform pedestal.
The table is complimented by 4 of Robert’s favorite solid oak Panel Back Dining Chairs. These early chairs can be distinguished by their adzed frames, adzing to the front and rear back panels and the rush rail positioned between the front legs.
The dining set was fully refurbished and sold as a classic vintage set by Robert Thompson’s in 1989, the work including replacement of the worn original cow hide with a more stain resistant hide that they’ve used since July 1989. This sales invoice is available to the new owners.
Table: 91(w) x 90(d) x 71.5(h)cm
Chairs: 44(w) x 44(d) x 85(h)cm
Sold
{gallery}DS2251{/gallery}
Stock ref: DS2245
Circa 1984/5
A wonderful example of Thomas Whittaker’s artisan craftsmanship, late made, in his typical rustic country style. Tom is one of the best known ‘Yorkshire Critters’ craftsmanen and this bespoke commmissioned freestanding solid oak 5′ 2″ tall Bookcase / Display Shelving Unit features 4 fixed shelves and his signature gnome carved to the corner edge of right side piece.
Sympathetically cleaned and rewaxed in our workshop it presents in lovely useable condition with a warm medium oak colour. The original owners have removed two or three of the original back panels at some point in the past to open out the piece for use as a display unit.
Thomas whittaker (1910 -1991) lived and worked in Littlebeck, near Whitby, North Yorkshire. His trademark gnome is carved onto all his work and was inspired by the legend that a gnome is born each time an acorn germinates and will guard that tree throughout its life. His work is now nearly as well known as Robert Thompson’s. His business ceased on his death and his former home and workshop is now a private residence. For those interested in learning more about his life and work i attach a link to a British Pathe newsreel from 1961. Gnomeman Thomas Whittaker
Size: 100(w) x 30(d) x 157(h)cm
Sold
{gallery}DS2245{/gallery}