A Tasmanian Tiger trap dated from the early 19th century was one of the most intriguing items to go under the hammer at Tullochs special antique auction on Wednesday.
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Blacksmith made, it featured vicious metal teeth and a high level of craftsmanship to mount them.
The item sold for $10,000 but there was no such luck for a second Thylacine trap, which was once used at Rocky Cape, which came in under reserve.
With a range of special items for sale, one of the top sellers was a pair of unique Tasmanian made Huon pine wine tables.
Circa 1840s, the tables were part of the collection of William Mitchell, who had the largest and best collection of Huon pine furniture in the country.
The pair were inherited by his daughter Anne Sundstrup and eventually became part of the estate of the late Dr Bertel Sundstrup.
It was the first time the tables were offered for sale to the public, having been in the same family since the early 1900s.
They sold for $18,500 to a phone bidder.
A Haughton Forrest oil on canvas of a clipper off the Iron Pot Lighthouse was tipped to sell for between $22,000 and $26,000 but it also came in just under reserve with the highest bid $20,000.
A John Glover also changed hands, a watercolour titled View in South Wales, which sold for $6500.
Tullochs Auctions director Jessie Reid said with a collection as high-caliber as the Sundstrap estate, it made sense to create a specialty auction around it.
“We did get a lot of stuff from the Sundstrup estate, they didn’t have the Thylacine traps or the paintings, but they did have a lot of art and the Huon pine, but this has really drawn people by having some really good pieces,” she said.
“If you get some really choice pieces you get the basis of specialty auction, so some of those pieces were sitting in our front room for a couple of months before they went to auction.”