Royal Doulton jugs, plates and figures to be auctioned over several weeks

The first of a comprehensive collection of Royal Doulton character jugs, plates and figures will be among items to be auctioned from 9.30am Friday at Young’s Auctions 229 Camberwell Road, East Hawthorn.

This vast collection will be auctioned over several weeks to avoid over-burdening the market and devaluing the items involved.

The auction also contains a large collection of Danish retro furniture – including chests, sideboards and leather lounges – and a wide range of traditional landscape art, in particular a New Zealand painting of a young girl standing by a river.

There is a range of Waterford and Webb crystal, more typewriters from Romanian motorcycle champion Emeric Somlo, who migrated to Australia in 1965, and vintage radios from John Heard.

Among the antique cedar furniture is a dining table and chairs American Cutler roll top desk and meat safe.

The jewellery features a gold necklace and an exact replica of the coronation spoon used by every English monarch since Edward I. This spoon was struck shortly after the coronation of George V and Queen Mary in 1911.