Thousands of collectables and curios belonging to a renowned dealer of “kitchenalia” are expected to raise more than £100,000 at auction.

The late Annie Marchant, from Wingham near Canterbury, spent years selling kitchen and dairy antiques while amassing her own private collection at her home.

Following her death last January, her vast personal collection is to go on display at a Yorkshire museum. Meanwhile, her unsold stock is to go under the hammer at The Canterbury Auction Galleries next month.

Thousands of objects from the Victorian era and earlier are to be auctioned off, including furniture and advertising memorabilia, and culinary equipment such as chopping boards, copper jelly moulds, saucepans, mixing bowls and corkscrews.

Many of the items were hired out as props for film and TV sets, including comedian Victoria Wood’s parody soap opera, Acorn Antiques.

Born in 1951, Ms Marchant was the only child of John Marchant - a hop grower, arable farmer and agricultural auctioneer who farmed in Wingham and Ash - and his wife Betty.

She was educated at Battle Abbey School in West Sussex and later at Clough’s secretarial school in Hawks Lane, Canterbury - which she reportedly hated - and left to become a Saturday girl at the former Quids In boutique in St Margaret’s Street.

Passionate about fashion, Ms Marchant moved to London in the 70s, where she trained as a buyer at Peter Robinson’s department store in Oxford Street. She was introduced to antiques by her then-boyfriend who ran a shop in Camden, and soon set up her own stand focusing solely on kitchen and dairy antiques, exhibiting at fairs across the country.

Ms Marchant moved back to her family home in Wingham in the mid-1980s, following the death of her parents. She lived there with her pointer dog Merlin, along with her cats, chickens, ducks, geese and a flock of sheep.

The large farmhouse was perfect for showcasing her collection of antiques, and she soon transformed its kitchen back to the Victorian era.

Ms Marchant died on January 9 last year at the age of 68.

In her obituary, published in The Guardian, her friend Hugh Darrah described her as a “lively, talkative and strong-minded woman who held unshakeable views about almost everything”.

He wrote: “The best word I can think of to describe her thought processes was that everything should be proper - it was, she believed, proper to be frugal, proper to reuse and recycle, proper to grow your own vegetables, proper to preserve produce at harvest time, proper to look after wounded animals.

“To enter the kitchen of Annie’s farmhouse home was to move into an older, timeless world; a better world, indeed, of scrubbed pine, old kitchen equipment glinting in the candlelight, a hunting dog, cats curled up on every surface, vegetables from the garden waiting to be cooked and a newborn lamb being warmed beside the Aga.

“There was no intrusion from the modern world, no electricity, no radio playing, just the tick of the clock, the kettle singing on the hob. It was delightful.”

Ms Marchant’s will included substantial bequests to charities, cousins and friends.

But with no immediate family, her collection of kitchen and dairy antiques has been moved to the Jacobean Kiplin Hall and Gardens in Yorkshire where it will soon go on permanent display, in accordance with her wishes.

Her vast collection of unsold stock, meanwhile, is to go under the hammer at The Canterbury Auction Galleries, in 624 separate lots. The sale on April 12 to 13 is expected to raise more than £100,000.

Contact the auctioneers on 01227 763337.

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