Auction results

Results just in! The cream silk desert robe belonging to T.E. Lawrence has sold for £3000 plus auction fees. 

Serab runner - £1700

The second Lawrence item was a serab runner, NW Persia 1890, an ivory field with four gul and flowerhead filled medallions, 154 x 32.5in.
Estimate £300-500

This lot was sold with a letter of provenance from the vendor whose parents were close friends of T.E. Lawrence and the Lawrence family and two photographs showing the interior of a Middle eastern room bedecked with carpets. The carpet was given by T.E. Lawrence to the vendor's father as a wedding present around 1914, and the event is mentioned p.198, The Home Letters of T.E.Lawrence, Blackwell, 1954. 

This has sold for £1700 plus auction fees.

Auction of T.E. Lawrence's silk robes

This morning the following lot will be auctioned at Gorringes Auction Sale in Lewes, East Sussex, England. It seems a low estimate but perhaps it has been set to provoke some interest. The same robe, along with a carpet that Lawrence brought back from Aleppo in about 1914 for a wedding gift for a family friend and which is also included in this sale, was first presented at Sotheby's Fashion auction in 1999. At that time it was set at £8,000-12,000. 

A cream silk desert robe belonging to T.E. 'Lawrence of Arabia,' c.1916, of simple form with silk thread buttons and plaited loop fastenings, the cuffs edged with silk braid, fully lined with an internal hanging cord stamped in black ink H157 and another woven label embroidered 150, along with a large black and white photograph of Lawrence, and numerous other photographs and newspaper clippings, robe length 110cm. Estimate £1,500-2,000

This lot is sold with a note of provenance from the vendor whose parents were close friends of T.E. Lawrence and the Lawrence family, and a collection of letters from T.E. Lawrence's brother to Mrs Hutchins.