News from our eBay Shop
Vintage Bromford Advertising Man sells for £420
During the 1920s 30s 40s leading golf ball manufacturing companies used shop counter point of sale advertising figures to encourage sales of their golf balls in professional golf shops. The most common seen are the Penfold man and the Dunlop caddie. The rarer figures are the North British Scottie, the Bromford Man made of papier-mâché, and the smaller Dunlop caddie figure. There is some damage to the man shown in the pictures his hat has some chips and his jacket his shoes have some paint on them and his mouth where his pipe has been played with. The stands approx 21" high.
The man pictured here sold for £420.
Jewsbury & Brown’s chemist is advertising plate sells for £530!
Jewsbury & Brown’s
Advertising plate
At the Hospice Christmas Fair Christine Kay, who looks after our eBay Shop, happened to notice on the Castletown Shop Stall, a Shelly jelly mould and then spotted a rather special advert plate with, so decided to bring this back to the office for eBay as items with adverts for shops always go well.
This fun plate from Jewsbury & Brown’s chemist is advertising oriental tooth paste on a decorative plate of various flowers which measures 23cm across. It was put up for auction and has made £530. Wow!
Two John Nicholson paintings sold on eBay
Two John H. Nicholson (1911-88) paintings have kindly been donated to Hospice Shops for sale to assist with costs of repairs and renewals at our six Shops, starting with Castletown. Full details and photos, with larger popup images are contained on a separate page.
Both paintings were auctioned via our Hospice eBay shop and realised £873 less carriage to the buyers. Brilliant and many thanks to Mel Warrender for donating the paintings for sale.