SPECIALISTS

PHILIP RANCE FRICS
Furniture, Silver, Objets d’art, Porcelain & Glass, Clocks, Scientific Instruments, Valuations
With over 30 years experience as a senior valuer in the South West, Philip Rance has developed an excellent knowledge of antique silver and furniture in particular. Over the past three years, Philip played an integral part in establishing Netherhampton Salerooms and continues to work as our main specialist and valuer. He is also a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. In his spare time, Philip gives talks to charities and antique societies.
Tel: 01722 342045 Mobile: 07971 571609

BILL HOADE
Wine, Paintings, Prints, Books, Documents & Ephemera
Having spent his younger days on the road touring with his band ‘Walrus’, Bill settled in Dorset in the late 1970s and opened the Wimborne Bookshop. His own collection of books expanded into his own bookshop business which he continued until the early ‘90s. Latterly he has worked as a book valuer and consultant in the South West before coming to assist Philip Rance in the development of Netherhampton Salerooms.
Tel: 01722 342042 Mobile: 07774 944057
Email: billhoade.sca@btconnect.com

JUNE BARRETT
Carpets, Rugs, Textiles & Dolls
June Barrett worked at Woolley and Wallis for over 30 years, taking on the cataloguing of carpets and rugs in the late 1970s. She was responsible for the development of the department eventually enabling it to become, with the addition of textiles, a specialist sale in its own right in 1997. Dealing with four 600 lot sales per year, the Carpet department was considerably strengthened by the arrival of Ian Bennett in 1999. In 2004 both moved to Netherhampton where they continue to catalogue the only provincial rug sale in Great Britain.
Tel: 01722 342044 Mobile: 07770 595570
Email: junebarrett.sca@btconnect.com

DR. IAN BENNETT
Carpets, Rugs and Textiles
Ian Bennett worked at Sothebys from 1965 to 1975 specialising in Impressionist and Modern paintings. From 1975 he dealt privately in Art pottery and Studio ceramics and wrote several articles and catalogues on these subjects. In 1978, he edited the Country Life Book of Rugs and Carpets and the following year was the founding editor of Hali magazine. In 1987 he wrote Oriental Carpets Vol. 1 for the Antique Collectors Club and has contributed articles and chapters to many other publications. He joined June Barrett in the Carpet department at Woolley and Wallis in 1999 and the two have continued working together since the inception of the carpet department at Netherhampton in 2004.
Tel: 01722 342044 Mobile: 07810 162413

DENIS WALKER & LEIGH POOLE
General sales and House Clearance
Denis and Leigh jointly manage our weekly and monthly sales of household furniture and general antiques. Denis who began his career as a livestock auctioneer with Woolley and Wallis can now be found on the rostrum selling anything from furniture and china to pet food, plants and even poultry! Leigh is like the flip side of the coin. With his early career in London and subsequent move to Wiltshire where he ran a successful silver and antiques business in Salisbury, before joining us as an auctioneer in May 2005, he brings a different aspect to the saleroom.
Tel: 01722 340041
Email: sca@auctionmarts.com

JULIAN SMITH
Sporting Goods
Netherhampton Salerooms are happy and proud to welcome Julian as a consultant in the sporting goods department. Julian is well known in local sporting circles, a member of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation he is an excellent shot; a practised and accomplished fly fisherman (he is a member of the Salisbury and District Angling Club) and he hunts with the Wiltshire School of Infantry Beagles. His copious knowledge of sporting guns, fishing rods and reels, other sporting goods and ephemera have been gleaned from his voracious appetite for knowledge and his twelve years in the business.
Tel: 07879 624734