Last night I attended the Webb's Collectors Sale that featured a collection of antique items from the last residential address on Ponsonby Road.
"This sale includes the contents of 213 Ponsonby Road known as the Finers Music Academy, which the Finers family have occupied for the past 100 years. The complete contents of the house to be offered, a unique opportunity to see an early Auckland family history". (webbs blurb)
The auction was one of the most interesting lower value antique sales that the market had seen in a while. With a mix of Victorian furniture, religious framed lithographs, 1950s and 1960s cotton dresses, hat boxes filled with hats, kitsch chocolate boxes filled with scarves and postcards, ties and shirts still in their original packaging.
Highlights were a Kauri scrubbed top table with pink painted apron and legs that fetched fifteen hundred dollars, a group of suitcases and a hat box of hats fetched one seventy and the chocolate boxes filled with goodies realised one twenty, the colourful dresses sold in groups of 5 sold for between fifty five and one hundred and ten dollars each.
