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With estimates from £80, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week Devoted to advertising memorabilia, antique bottles, breweriana and early… ...
Relocations and new gallery openings are among the latest Movers & Shakers. The latest news from around auction houses, ...
Lowestoft Porcelain. The East Anglian fishing port of Lowestoft, set far away from the other centres of 18th century porcelain production like London, Staffordshire or Liverpool, began producing ...
LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair is returning on October 28-November 2. Newcomers to the fair this year include Gladwell & ...
The latest Modern and Contemporary art auctions in London raised a combined £97.8m. This compared to £132.3m from the ...
A copper button, made in 1852 as part of the effort to find survivors of the doomed Franklin expedition to the Arctic, has sold at auction for £6000. Auctioneer Brian Goodison-Blanks of Bearnes ...
Early sales in the first hours of Treasure House Fair heated up the third edition of the Chelsea fair. Amid the heatwave sweeping the UK, exhibitors kept their cool and agreed deals in the opening ...
By 1897, the antiquarian Albert Hartshorne had published Old English Glasses: An account of glass drinking vessels in England, from early times to the end of the eighteenth century.This seminal work ...
The latest saleroom round-up including news of Stockholms Auktionsverk acquiring fellow Swedish auction house Uppsala Auktionskammare ...
An 18th century violin has been stolen from a member of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra and the Met Police are hoping to trace their chief suspect. The violin was allegedly stolen on the evening of ...
Islamic brass bowl ‘sleeper’ stars in our pick of five auction highlights. ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a possible 14th century Islamic brass bowl that made over ...
When they first came into use in the 1830s, friction matches were hazardous and could combust without warning, so vesta cases were something of a necessity. But as their production became more ...