Chard Stuart Bull Auctions next sale will be on October 3

The viewing day is on Wednesday, October 2, 10am to 5pm, where you can bid live in the room or register to bid online at www.stuartbullauctions.co.uk.

Stuart Bull Auctions spokesperson said: “As always there will be a range of high quality and very interesting and unique lots, including jewellery, stamps, gold sovereigns, fine art, bronzes and collectibles.”

According to their team, here’s the top 10 items headlining the auction:

1 - A very rare and important antique silver Holy Communion wafer Pyx with further background information on its history

(Image: Adam Stewart) The family story is that the Pyx was given to the vendors' Great Grandmother by their father/father-in-law, and it was an old family item. If it was their father-in-law’s, at some point he fled from Austria\Switzerland and settled in Holland in the late 1600s-early 1700s. If it originally belonged to the vendor's side of the family, they were an old catholic family.

The Pyx has also been seen by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

2 – A beautiful and very good quality 9ct gold bangle set with 60 small diamonds approximately 2 carats total

(Image: Adam Stewart) 3 – A collection of 6 gold sovereigns in mint condition

(Image: Adam Stewart) These include 3 full sovereigns, a double sovereign and a Bank of England £2 coin, all in their original cases, untouched by human hands - which is incredibly important to serious collectors.

4 – A collection of rare mainly 19th Century and early 20th century stamps from Great Britain, Canada, Antiqua, Trinidad and other Commonwealth Countries

(Image: Adam Stewart) A small mixed collection, with some items on old album pages and others loose.

Including items from the early 1800s through to a few later pieces, two with ‘One Penny Red’ stamps, one with a ‘Three Pence’ stamp from 1872, and another with a ‘Half Penny’ stamp and an 1875 Manchester postmark. There are also two pieces with ‘One Penny Black’ stamps from c1840.

Included are Great Britain Queen Victoria ‘Eight pence orange’, c1876.

Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria stamps.

Jamaica four pence stamp (c1880s) with CA watermark, in a nice strong red colour.

5 – A large 19th Century Italian Bronze Statue of a dancing faun standing 81cm high

(Image: Adam Stewart) 6 - A large 19th Century bronze model of the winged Victory (Nike) of Samothrace, the winged figure is raised on a shaped pedestal, Height 56cm

(Image: Adam Stewart) 7 - Vintage Gandolfi Cameras

Two very good vintage large format Gandolfi cameras, one of which include the case, tripod and lenses.

(Image: Adam Stewart) 8 – Fine Art:

(Image: Adam Stewart) A collection of paintings by German and British Artists, including:

A 19th century oil on canvas - Landscape with Cattle  - by Hugo Muhlig, German 1854-1929. Signed and inscribed. Provenance comes from Sotheby’s in London, Property from a European Royal Collection.

An oil on board painting entitled “Pond and Trees” attributed to Duncan Grant, British 1885-1978 who was one of the famous Bloomsbury set - a group of artists and writers in the early 20th century, including Virginia Woolf.

A 19th century seascape, oil on board, by British artist Henry Redmore.

9 – Scrimshaw walking stick

(Image: Adam Stewart) An antique whale bone and Baleen Scrimshaw walking stick with carved horse head handle and intricate carved decoration to stick. 82.5cm long.

10 – A pair of fine quality leather Corbusier style reception chairs.

(Image: Adam Stewart)