Island Life Magazine Ltd February/March 2015 | Page 35

ANTIQUES

RECENTLY
SOLD ITEMS
Book
Sold for £2,500
The notes of prominent Islander
Lt. Gen. Somerset Calthorpe

Island Auction Rooms

Chest of drawers
Sold for £600
Dutch marquetry chest of
drawers sold to a local collector

HRD Auction Rooms

Painting
Sold for £1,500
Painting by Queen Victoria

Island Auction Rooms

Painting

Rex
Gully:
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T

he Convention on International Trade of
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES) is an agreement between Governments
which aims to ensure that international trade in
specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten
their survival.
It is also something which
auctioneers come across
more often than you
might think, as it requires
a vendor to obtain official
authorisation to sell
articles made from the
skins, tusks, wood (even a
whole animal in the case of
certain pieces of taxidermy), of
CITES protected species.
It also prohibits the sale of certain articles, most notably
modern (post 1947) or ‘unworked’ ivory. Brazilian
rosewood (Dalbergia Nigra) is a protected species,