Browse the selection of lots in the 'Witches, Monsters and Mysteries' category featured in our 18 August 'Out of the Ordinary' auction.
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Lot 1 - A pair of apothecary potion scales 17th century,
Sold for £2,800
Lot 2 - An oak animal charm 19th century,
Sold for £750
Lot 3 - An oak stool probably 19th century, incorporating earlier timbers,
Sold for £380
Lot 4 - A 'gypsy' tripod table late 19th century,
Sold for £450
Lot 5 - A mystical quartz orb pendant 19th century or earlier,
Sold for £850
Lot 6 - A memento mori gold skull ring 18th century,
Sold for £3,000
Lot 7 - A Dark Ages pentagram protection or magic ring probably 5th/6th century CE,
Sold for £600
Lot 8 - A vampire slaying kit 20th century, with 19th-century elements,
Sold for £4,500
Lot 9 - 'Ye Vampyres! A Legend of the National Betting-Ring Showing what became of it' dated 1875, by the Spectre,
Sold for £180
Lot 10 - 'The Wicker Man' poster circa 1973,
Sold for £1,400
Lot 11 - 'The Blood on Satan's Claw' circa 1971,
Sold for £200
Lot 12 - A salt-glazed stoneware witch's bellarmine bottle 17th century,
Sold for £6,000
Lot 13 - A crescent moon hand mirror late 19th century,
Sold for £400
Lot 14 - A witches' coven or cult grimoire manuscript book late 20th century,
Lot 15 - Naive School, late 19th century A fortune teller
Sold for £480
Lot 16 - A Mother Shipton pipe rack 19th century,
Lot 17 - Thirty-two luminous witches' fingers circa 1970s, by Esco,
Sold for £160
Lot 18 - A spooky carved wooden ghost sculpture late 19th century,
Sold for £300
Lot 19 - A Ouija board early to mid-20th century,
Sold for £280
Lot 20 - A Victorian photograph of a witch dated 1882,
Sold for £240
Lot 21 - A witch on a broomstick early 20th century,
Sold for £260
Lot 22 - A large cast iron ram's head late 20th century,
Sold for £140
Lot 23 - An illustrated Halloween party invitation dated 1913,
Lot 24 - Tam o'Shanter escaping a coven of chasing witches 19th century,
Lot 25 - English School, early 20th century 'Guardian Angel'
Lot 26 - A carved and painted hardwood figure of the Egyptian God Osiris 19th century,
Sold for £1,200
Lot 27 - An intriguing Egyptianesque marble niche carving probably 19th century, formerly the property of Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925) at Ditchingham House, Norfolk,
Sold for £6,500
Lot 28 - 'The Mummy's Curse' film poster circa 1960s,
Lot 29 - A 'Witchcraft' and 'House of the Damned' double-bill film poster circa 1960s,
Lot 30 - A 'Dennis Wheatley Fortnight' advertising poster 1960s,
Lot 34 - A Pagan mancave Stonehenge Brewery enamel sign late 20th century,
Lot 35 - A Mexican Guanajuato Diablo mask 20th century,
Sold for £420
Lot 36 - ▲ Catharni Stern (British, 1925-2015) 'Edward Bright's Waistcoat Wager, 1750, at The Black Bull Inn, Maldon',
Sold for £350
Lot 37 - A wizard conjuring demons early 19th century,
Sold for £60
Lot 38 - A box of glass human eyes early 20th century,
Sold for £550
Lot 39 - English School, 20th century A spooky house, circa 1960s
Sold for £70
Lot 40 - A symbolic owl stick pin late 19th century, Victorian,
Sold for £90
Lot 41 - A Victorian bronze owl late 19th century,
Sold for £220
Lot 42 - An unusual reverse-painted and gilt picture of two owls late 19th century,
Lot 43 - A Mexican retablo devotional folk art picture circa 1989,
Lot 45 - A medieval sandstone carved corbel gargoyle head
Lot 46 - A sandstone carved corbel gargoyle head possibly medieval,
Lot 47 - Billy and Charley (or Shadwell) Forgeries c.1860,
Lot 48 - Billy and Charley (or Shadwell) Forgeries c.1860,
Lot 49 - Possibly American School extinct fossilised giant land sloth,
Sold for £1,700
Lot 50 - Two dodo foot bones pre-1690, Mauritius,
Sold for £11,000
Lot 51 - A synsacrum bone from an extinct New Zealand moa bird pre-15th century,
Lot 52 - A modern artistic recreation of 'Colenso's' huia bird circa 2023,
Lot 53 - A Victorian sorcerer's mirror late 19th century,
Lot 54 - A Victorian sorcerer's mirror 19th century,
Lot 55 - A small sorcerer's mirror late 19th century,
Sold for £190
Lot 56 - A Victorian sorcerer's mirror late 19th century,
Lot 57 - A large Victorian sorcerer's mirror late 19th century,
Sold for £650
Lot 58 - A curved illusion mirror 20th century,
Lot 59 - A mysterious concave illusion mirror late 19th or early 20th century,
Lot 60 - A Victorian sorcerer's mirror late 19th century,
Lot 64 - A large Victorian witch's ball late 19th century,
Lot 65 - A rare silver mercury glass spherical witch's ball 19th century,
Lot 66 - A large Victorian witch's ball
Lot 67 - An ovoid amethyst mercury witch's ball late 20th century,
Lot 68 - A large cobalt-blue witch's ball late 19th century,
Sold for £320
Lot 70 - A large crystal ball early 20th century,
Lot 71 - A witch's scrying ball probably 19th century,
Lot 72 - A Victorian mirrored crystal ball globe late 19th century,
Lot 73 - A crystal ball early 20th century, by Two Worlds Ltd.,
Lot 74 - A Victorian crystal ball late 19th century,
Sold for £3,200
Lot 75 - A terracotta dragon ewer late 19th century,
Sold for £100
Lot 77 - Patrick Branwell Brontë (British, 1817-1848) Boy fishing by a bridge
Sold for £1,300
Lot 78 - After Leonardo da Vinci Portrait of the artist
Sold for £2,200
Lot 79 - Two unusual Punch and Judy hand puppets late 19th century, possibly German,
Lot 80 - A Tibetan monster deity circa 1950s, originally located outside a cinema,
Lot 81 - A bronze novelty model of a Medieval iron maiden early 20th century,
Lot 82 - An Art Deco blue patinated-bronze figure of Icarus circa 1920s, after Leon Salat,
Lot 83 - Edwin Cooper (British, 19th century) Devilment and bestiality
Lot 84 - A cast metal doll's head mould early 20th century,
Lot 85 - After Claude Michel called 'Clodion' late 19th century,
Lot 86 - A cold-painted lead figure of a gorilla holding a naked woman circa 1920s,
Lot 88 - Alice Beach (British, 20th century) Fairies in a woodland glade
Sold for £120
Lot 89 - ... Brierley (early 20th century) Fairies in a woodland, with a sleeping princess, watched by two snails and a snake,
Lot 91 - A novelty Austrian cold-painted devil on a pig figure late 19th century,
Lot 92 - CH Locke (British, 20th century) 'Count Dracula'
Lot 93 - After William Hogarth 'Cunicularii or The Wise Men of Godliman in Consultation'
Sold for £500
Lot 94 - An unusual 'freak' advertising sign 20th century,
Lot 95 - An Occultist carved wood walking stick late 19th century,
Lot 96 - 'Cambridge University Medical Society Ball' late 20th century,
Lot 97 - An exhibition booklet for the 'Exhibition of Drawings by Louis Wain' held at the Brook Street Galleries, London, 1931,
Lot 98 - A palm-leaf manuscript early 20th century, Indian or Southeast Asian,
Lot 99 - A cut-paper silhouette picture of hell late 19th century, French,
Lot 100 - A carved bone acupuncture teaching aid 19th century,
Lot 101 - A carved eagle mirror late 19th century,
Lot 102 - A fortune-telling 'number oracle' wheel early 19th century,
Lot 103 - A Cornish witch portrait, 19th century Dorothea Pentreath (1692-1777) of Mousehole, Cornwall,
Lot 104 - An Ethiopian magic healing-prayer parchment 18th or 19th century,
Lot 105 - A Mrs Newsham 'The White Negress' halfpenny token 1795,
Lot 106 - A bronze skull and bones memento mori jewellery group late 20th century,
Lot 107 - An Aleister Crowley 'Thoth Tarot' deck circa 1986, 'Swiss Blue Box' edition,