A CARVED self portrait of a Lakeland craftsman is among the more unusual lots in an auction by Hartleys, of Ilkley, West Yorkshire, on November 30.

It is the work of William Fell, of Windermere, who died in 1915.

The portrait is deeply carved on a framed oak panel and is expected to sell for £120 to £180.

He was born at Staveley, near Windermere, to a family of wooden bobbin makers and farmed at Common Farm, near Windermere.

Mr Fell began carving in oak in 1875 and it gradually became a full-time job.

Several of his commissions can be seen in St Anne’s Church at Ings.

He began working in brass from 1902.

Around 60 pieces of his work were sold at auction in 1987.

The same sale has a porcelain plaque painted by R. Abbott with the title Windermere Lake From Low Wood Inn. It should sell for £200 to £300.

The November 30 sale by C & T Auctioneers, of Kenardington, Kent, has two Victorian military badges from the Cumberland-based 34th Regiment.

A gilt metal shako plate for an officer in the 1860s should sell for £150 50 £250 and a gilt brass glengarry cap badge for others ranks should make £60 to £100.

The December 2 sale by David Duggleby, of Scarborough, has a watercolour with the title Head of Windermere.

It was painted by Francis Nicholson, who lived from 1753 to 1844 and was based at Weybrudge, Surrey.

The painting, of around 1800, should sell for £200 to £300.

Rare items from the golden age of the railways in South Cumbria featured in a specialist sale at Eversham in Worcestershire

The sale by G.W. Railwayana Auctions got £140 for a cast iron public notice produced for the London & North Western & Furness Joint Railway.

It used to for part of the collection at Moseley Railway Museum.

A pair of Furness Railway seat ends in cast iron complete with original centre piece and connecting bar made £1,050.

On a smaller scale was a Furness Railway cast iron wagon registration plate dated 1912 which sold for £140.