2024

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the eclectic collection of Ann Broadbent appearing at auction this month.

All the fun of the fair comes to Bonhams New Bond Street with a sale featuring an array of vintage and antique fairground figures and carvings, ride seats shaped as animals, games and posters.

An 18ct gold presentation snuffbox by Nathaniel Mills is coming up for sale at Cheffins (25% buyer’s premium) Jewellery, Silver & Watches sale in Cambridge on August 15.

Henry Orlik was celebrated alongside Salvador Dali and René Magritte before he withdrew from the art world. A new show at Winsor Birch is bringing him back into the spotlight

Eight original light fittings from the RMS Olympic which were discovered in Durham attracted strong interest at a recent Anderson & Garland auction.

The latest jobs news across the world of art and antiques

Opinionated and philosophical missives to friends and first editions from the Lord of the Rings cycle are available through Bayliss Rare Books

The glasses will now be displayed in the Uri Geller Museum in Tel Aviv

Welsh auction house Rogers Jones said its first sale in mid-Wales at Gregynog Hall in Powys experienced a greater turn out of room bidders than for any Welsh Sale since before covid.

Last week a taxidermy display including the extinct Huia bird of New Zealand sold for £38,000 at Kinghams’ sale. On September 24, it is the turn of another long-gone species to be brought to life in auction terms, at least.

Shapero Rare Books has recently commandeered an audacious move from their previous Bond Street store to a newly developed, dazzling landmark building.

The first lot offered in the latest Fine Art, Antiques & Collectors’ Items sale held at Adam Partridge (20% buyer’s premium) in Devon was simply described as ‘a group of five 16th century carved oak figures of saints …’.

Frequented by A-list stars, home builders and collectors, Guinevere Antiques pioneered trends and enchanted the public with dramatic window displays

Estimated at just £60-100, a late 19th century sampler sold for £4600 at Rogers Jones (22% buyer’s premium) in Colwyn Bay.

Pearl found by Scotland’s last freshwater pearl fisherman to appear at Edinburgh’s Lyon & Turnbull

The love affair between painter Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) and Evelyn St. George has always been a subject of great public interest.

Last month, Peter Harrington hosted a party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of their flagship location in Mayfair.

A selection of 100 paintings from the collection of the Paisley Art Institute in Scotland has been consigned to Lyon & Turnbull.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of an Interpol operation into looted art recovering more than 6400 objects in total.

Appearing at Gorringe’s in Lewes, East Sussex this week was a small Minton majolica box and cover catalogued as ‘possibly after a design by Christopher Dresser’.