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Featuring in our forthcoming Collectors’ Sale on 11th-13th March is an iconic piece of comedy history.
27/02/2025
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Featuring in The Frost Report in 1966, ‘Three Men’ (often known as the Class sketch) was written by Marty Feldman and John Law and starred John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett in a brief skit which has become one of the best loved comedy moments of British television.
This original script is estimated at £300-500 and is from an extensive collection of scripts, press photograph and ephemera in this auction from the estate of actress Josephine Tewson (1931-2022). Tewson was a regular feature on the Frost Report and many other subsequent Ronnie Barker projects, becoming his lead female comedy foil.
During a career which spanned seven decades Tewson starred in T.V. series’ including Z-cars, Keeping up Appearances, Last of the Summer Wine, The Two Ronnies, Heartbeat and Midsummer Murders, in her private life she was briefly married to Leonard Rossiter.
The ‘Class sketch’ script is one of many 1960s comedy scripts in the collection, with writers including Ronnie Barker writing under his own name and pseudonym, members of the Monty Python team (prior to their Python fame) and many of the leading comedy lights of the day.
The collection offers a window into a golden era of British comedy.
We are delighted to announce the opening of our new, second saleroom in Smeaton Close, adjacent to our main saleroom, in which we will hold regular auctions in addition to our current calendar.
04/09/2025
Reeman Dansie Auctioneers of Colchester is delighted to announce the auction of the collection of Mr Harry Sunderland, an avid Rolls-Royce enthusiast and restorer who for four decades, has delighted newly weds in Norfolk with his wonderful cars, which he hired out.
29/08/2025
The sale includes a good selection of clocks, including some scarce late 17th Century Lantern clocks.
08/08/2025