Name: Auction: A SALON SUITE OF BLACK FOREST ELEPHANT FURNITURE BY PETER ABEGGLEN CIRCA 1900
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 4536 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Day Two | Thurs 25th Sept 2025 at 10am | Lots 426 to 851

Day One | Wed 24th Sept 2025 at 10am | Lots 1 to 425

For nearly forty years, London’s Eccentric Trading Company has been the industry’s best-kept secret - a “warehouse of wonders” supplying films, television, and theatre with everything from grand dining tables to vintage Louis Vuitton luggage. &nbsp;&nbsp;Founded in 1986 by the Jordan family, the company built its reputation on objects that feel authentic, lived-in, and true to their period. As founder Spencer Jordan puts it: “A good prop is something you don’t notice - if you do, it’s wrong.”Now, that secret world opens to the public. &nbsp;Lyon &amp; Turnbull presents The Secret Life of Props: The Eccentric Trading Company Collection, a two-day single-owner auction offering a once-in-a-lifetime chance to acquire pieces that have shaped British film and television for a generation. From 18th-century English armchairs to whimsical oddities, each lot carries a story far beyond the screen.For collectors, designers, and film lovers, the sale is more than an auction - it is an invitation to own a piece of cinematic history.&nbsp;Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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the settee with pierced back carved with palm trees and elephants, the leaf carved serpentine fronted seat supported on twin elephant carved supports, the two extravagant armchairs with pierced foliate backs and elephants with trunks entwined around trees, the writing table with shaped top and foliate carving above a single frieze drawer and raised on elephant head cabriole legs, all the elephant head figures with resin tusk inserts (6)

A SALON SUITE OF BLACK FOREST ELEPHANT FURNITURE BY PETER ABEGGLEN

CIRCA 1900

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