Dominic Winter Book Auctions: Beatrix Potter Collection, 100225, Gloucestershire

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 02, 2025 - October 02, 2025
Page Size: 159 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943)

Autograph Letter Signed, 'Beatrix Heelis', Hill Top Farm, Sawrey, Ambleside, 23 December 1913, to Millie [Warne]

Hill Top Farm, Sawrey, Ambleside 1913-12-23 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,022.40
102 Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943)

Autograph Illustrated Letter, c. 1920, [?to Nancy Nicholson, Potter's niece by marriage]

c. 1920 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
103 Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943)

Autograph Letter Signed, 'Beatrix Heelis', Sawrey, Ambleside, 3 March 1924, to Mrs. [Celia] Edwards

Sawrey, Ambleside 1924-03-03 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,022.40
104 Potter (Beatrix)

'Peter and his friends need your help!'

1924/1925 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,200.80
105 Potter (Beatrix)

Greetings card

circa 1927 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,011.20
106

Wray Castle Estate. Illustrated Particulars, with Plan and Conditions of Sale of the Important Sporting, Residential and Agricultural Estate known as Wray Castle Estate in the Parishes of Claife, Skelwith and Hawkshead and the County of Lancaster...

1928 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 292.80
107 Potter (Beatrix)

Greetings card

circa 1932 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 530.88
108 Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943)

Autograph Testimonial Signed, 'H. B. Heelis (Mrs. W Heelis)

Castle Cottage, Sawrey 1933-03-25 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 632.00
109 Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943)

Autograph Testimonial Signed, 'H B Heelis (Mrs W. Heelis)

Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Nr Ambleside 1933-03-25 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 632.00
110 Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943)

Autograph Illustrated Letter Signed, 'Beatrix Heelis', Castle Cottage, Sawrey, nr Ambleside, 26 October 1936, to Miss Dobson

Castle Cottage, Sawrey, nr Ambleside 1936-10-26 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,412.80
111 Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943)

Signed and Inscribed ICAA Christmas Card

1936 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,769.60
112 Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943)

Signed and Inscribed ICAA Christmas Card

1938 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,401.60
113 Potter (Beatrix, 1866-1943)

Autograph Letter Signed, 'Beatrix Heelis', Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Ambleside, 14 January 1942, to Hetty [Douglas]

Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Ambleside 1942-01-14 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,780.80
114 Linder (Leslie, 1904-1973)

Beatrix Potter scholar and collector. A collection of correspondence and related items

4 August 1955 to 28 December 1968 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,327.20
115 Linder (Leslie, 1904-1973)

Beatrix Potter scholar and collector. A group of 6 Autograph Letters Signed and 4 Typed Letters Signed, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, 1971-73, to Doris Frohnsdorff

Buckhurst Hill, Essex 1971-73 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,022.40
116 Woodward (Henry)

Culm Trilobites from Devon and Glamorganshire (Geological Magazine, N.S., Decade IV, Vol. IX, pp. 481-487)

London 1902-11-01 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 793.00
117 Potter (Beatrix)

Wedding photograph of Beatrix (Potter) and William Heelis

[14 October 1913] GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,264.00
118 Nicholson (Nancy Carleton, 1909-2007)

Album of Manuscript Poetry

circa 1920's GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
119 Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943)

A pair of original illustrations from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, pen, ink, and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, on cream silk

GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 26,544.00
120 Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943)

Squintina Tabby, Licensed dealer in Tea, grisaille watercolour on card, showing Squintina Tabby sitting in her doorway beneath the shop sign, knitting whilst glowering at two young kittens with sticks and hoops looking through her window

GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 14,536.00
121 Potter (Beatrix, 186-1943)

Bookplate design for Lucy Roscoe

GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,643.20
122 Potter (Beatrix)

Old Mr. Pricklepin progressive proofs

circa 1917 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 303.36
123 After Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

A set of 12 paintings on fringed silk

circa 1920 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 884.80
124 After Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

A group of seven paintings on fringed silk, depicting characters and from Beatrix Potter's tales

circa 1920's GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 328.64
125 After Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)

Set of 6 hand-painted doilies after Beatrix Potter illustrations

circa 1920 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 328.64
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