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The most popular stories on this website over the last week included a plea to find stolen gold and silver jewellery.
In an auction that helped establish a secondary market for the artist and sculptor Peter Jackson (1930-2019), Suffolk saleroom Lacy Scott & Knight (22.5% buyer’s premium) offered a group of 245 works ...
New traffic restrictions on Portobello Road have affected the trade of the antiques dealers in shops and stalls along the famous west London street. Barriers installed by Kensington and Chelsea ...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary music concerts ever held: Live Aid. Strictly speaking, it was two concerts of course, held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in ...
The latest art market report by ArtTactic revealed that global auction sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips fell by ...
One of the largest groups of pictures by Robert Jobling (1841-1923) ever to come to the market in a single sale appeared at Anderson & Garland’s (25% buyer’s premium) latest fine art auction. Jobling ...
Tennants’ latest picture sale in Leyburn featured a group of 26 British Impressionist paintings relating to the artistic communities at Staithes and Fylingdales in North Yorkshire. They raised a ...
A previously unknown Anglo-Saxon era silver penny, recently found by a metal detectorist in Lincolnshire, is expected to sell for between £20,000-30,000 at auction in the autumn. The coin was struck ...
A “once in a lifetime” discovery of a 1937 jacketless first impression of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit smashed expectations, selling for £43,000 (£52,030 with fees) at auction. The timed online sale at ...
Sworders to host first London selling exhibition at its Cecil Court gallery. Sworders’ London gallery at 15 Cecil Court is to host its first selling show this month.
The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the controversial sale of an ancient Egyptian cosmetic vessel made in the form of a grasshopper ...
A dozen years after it was last sold in England, a portrait of Sir James Stirling (1791-1865), the first governor of Western Australia, returned to auction Down Under earlier this month. Back in ...