A special auction featuring 'Repair Shop' style tools and travel memorabilia will take place.

Mitchells will hold two unique sales over the coming weeks.

First is the Woodworking, Engineering and Workshop Sale, set for Thursday, October 31.

This auction will offer tools suitable for woodworking, auto repair, engineering, and metalworking, catering to all budgets.

Among the more unusual items are a vintage animal ear tattooing kit, antique Lister wood samples, and an antique wooden clay pipe trident.

A Lincoln Powertec mig welder and an Elektra Bekum floor-standing bandsaw are also on the list.

Furniture and cabinet-making enthusiasts can look forward to a NuTool NM 2-2 mortising machine, estimated to make between £50 and £80.

A vintage Stanley Bailey no. 41/2 smoothing plane, collectable in its original box, is expected to sell for £20 to £30.

Renovation projects on offer include a 1920s/30s Art Deco industrial lamp with gold-painted decoration, original flex, and plug, estimated at £40 to £60.

Fast forward a week to Thursday, November 7, and the Maritime and Transport Sale will take place, with all things travel on the agenda.

Highlights include a collection of books detailing Charles Darwin’s expedition on the HMS Beagle, estimated at £20 to £40.

Other maritime-themed lots include 'The Shipwrights Vade-Mecum Principles and Practice of Ship Building', 2nd Edition from 1922, which could sell for £100 to £200, and a watercolour of a steam-powered gunship by William Mackenzie Thomson (1870-1892), estimated at £80 to £120.

A Vetus Bow Thruster 75 kgf is expected to fetch between £400 and £800.

For those more interested in the past, there is a wooden box containing train and bus tickets from various journeys taken in the early 1900s, estimated at £25 to £50.

Illustrated catalogues can be viewed online a week before each sale at the-saleroom.com/Mitchells.

Here, buyers can also register to leave bids in advance or bid live during the auction.

Lots will also be on view in the saleroom on Wednesdays, the day before the sale, from 10am-7pm.

For further information about lots featured in the Woodworking, Engineering and Workshop Sale, contact David Dunlop, or for the Maritime and Transport Sale, contact Claire Machin on 01900 827800.

Entries for the Maritime and Transport Sale close on Thursday, October 31.

Mitchells offer free valuations by appointment at their Cockermouth saleroom and home visits by arrangement, including in the South Lakes and Furness.

Alternatively, valuation requests and photographs can be sent by email to info@mitchellsantiques.co.uk or contact Mitchells on 01900 827800 to arrange a free valuation.