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2024
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Top stories this week including news of Catherine Southon’s new saleroom
15 September 2024The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of auctioneer Catherine Southon moving to new premises with a permanent saleroom.
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Christie's buys US classic car auction house Goodings
13 September 2024Christie’s is to return to the classic car market following an agreement to acquire Gooding & Company.
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St James's dealer moves to high profile venue
13 September 2024The works of Alexander Milligan Galt help to launch Panter & Hall's new West End space
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‘Dutch school’ portrait catches the eye making over 40 times estimate in Ruislip
13 September 2024With Old Master sleeper spotters trawling through online catalogues looking for works with hidden potential, it’s not unusual for the odd lot to draw an unexpected bidding at sales all over the country.
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Grand Tour gold and micro-mosaic necklace shines bright at Shropshire saleroom
13 September 2024Only a handful of Byzantine-style gold and micro-mosaic pieces by Antonio Civilotti (1798-1870) have appeared for sale in recent years.
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Hand-drawn maps lift demand for Mary Tudor’s personal copy of Anglica Historia
12 September 2024Mary Tudor’s personal copy of Vergil’s history of England has sold at auction for £140,000.
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Single-owner collection of Chinese export silver emerges at Chiswick Auctions
12 September 2024The Gerard collection of Chinese export silver comes for sale at Chiswick Auctions on October 9.
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Auction record for any computer as Paul Allen’s Cray-1 sells at Christie’s
11 September 2024A Cray-1 Supercomputer owned by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen set a new high for any computer sold at auction when it took $810,000 (£618,320) at Christie’s New York.
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Dealership Charles Ede appoints James Richards to boost fine art sales
11 September 2024London firm Charles Ede is expanding its repertoire and has brought in James Richards to launch its new approach which includes a greater focus on fine art at this year's 'Frieze Masters'.
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Soft cover Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone bought for £3.50 in 1997 now hammers at £6600 in auction
11 September 2024The bad news if you have a first edition of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone' in soft covers is that they are not as rare as the hardback version which numbered 500 copies.
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Rare fairground memorabilia gallops ahead at London auction
11 September 2024On entering an Edwardian fairground, the sheer size and scale of the ornately carved ‘bioscope’ show front would stop an observer in their tracks.
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Bonhams announces new headquarters in New York at the iconic Steinway Hall
10 September 2024Bonhams is set to relocate its New York headquarters from 580 Madison Avenue to the historic Steinway Hall at 111 West 57th Street.
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Contemporaneous sketch of the demolished Bastille makes $1.6m at Freeman’s Hindman
10 September 2024A sketch which was given by the Marquis de Lafayette to the first American president George Washington sold for $1.6m (£1.22m) at an auction in Philadelphia earlier today.
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Major collection of Terence Cuneo and Ruskin Spear pictures consigned to Sworders
10 September 2024What promises to be a market-defining sale for two well-known Modern British artists will be held in Essex this autumn.
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Leighton auction purchase lights up exhibition at museum dedicated to the artist
10 September 2024Frederic Leighton’s 'Bay of Cádiz, Moonlight' will go on public display for the first time in 120 years at the artist’s former home after being bought at auction this summer.
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Collection of founder member of the Scottish Military Collectors Historical Society comes to auction
09 September 2024This week Anderson & Garland is offering for sale the private collection of militaria and weapons belonging to Douglas Napier Anderson (b.1927).
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Delightful diorama heads to auction
08 September 2024A charming item brought to a saleroom last week will go under the hammer next week.
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Work by a teenage Hockney comes to auction
07 September 2024David Hockney's art school era features in an array of prints coming to auction at Christie's that offers masters of Impressionism and Pop Art principals.
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Charlie Chaplin posters head to auction
06 September 2024A trove of eight original stone-lithographed Charlie Chaplin film posters is heading to the market at Propstore in Valencia, California on September 12-13.
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New premises for Catherine Southon saleroom
06 September 2024Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers has moved to new premises with a permanent saleroom.