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Cleethorpes also so bracing as Skegness as LNER poster demonstrates
12 August 2024While the famous railway poster featuring the Jolly Fisherman (see ATG No 2653) promoted Skegness, the example shown here was intended to tempt holidaymaker to another Lincolnshire seaside resort.
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Rock on with a jukebox purchase
15 April 2024Perfect to impress your friends and family – or annoy them – many vintage jukeboxes can be bought at auction for three or four figures depending on age, model and condition.
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Original phrenology models turn heads at auction
15 April 2024Ceramic phrenology heads have become ubiquitous following numerous reproductions. However, original 19th century models are much harder to come by.
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Botanical group features in Battle auction action
15 April 2024Twenty-six lots in the Science, Natural History and Curiosities sale at Burstow & Hewett (20% buyer’s premium) in Battle were previously owned by local botanist and entomologist George West.
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Power of the toy sales force
26 June 2023It is not just Star Wars figures or film posters bringing the big bucks.
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How pictures ‘attributed to’ or ‘after’ an artist can still attract plenty of interest
06 February 2023The market for ‘after’ or ‘attributed to’ works is often rather unpredictable. While some works will inevitably fall flat at auction, others sometimes take off.
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Calcutta seen in colonial days
03 October 2022Early views of the city now known as Kolkata reveal 19th development under empire
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Bidders on Kew for the chance to buy a Berg
26 September 2022Modern and Contemporary art was one of the sectors that seemed to experience an uplift of interest during the lockdown as people had more time to search online for works they like.
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Auction lot reveals the remarkable Rake’s progress
15 August 2022The autobiography title Rake’s Progress: The Gay and Dramatic – Adventures of Major Denis Rake MC, the Reluctant British War-Time Agent perfectly sums up the story behind a group of medals on offer in East Sussex.
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Pick of the week: Designed to make your move a bit quicker
07 February 2022With the advent of modern tournament chess in the Victorian era came the issue of game time.
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Strachey self-portrait underlines often overlooked talent
17 January 2022Despite his famous name, the artist Henry Strachey (1863-1940) has never had much prominence at auction, with only around a dozen works having emerged.
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Art Market: Taking the underground route
29 November 2021Paintings of caves including a view from a Channel Island in the spotlight at two salerooms
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Benin plaque withdrawn from auction after curator raises provenance questions
03 May 2021The increasingly contentious issue of selling Benin works of art at auction raised its head again last week after an ancestral plaque catalogued as 16th or 17th century was withdrawn from an East Sussex sale.
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Elkington Paradise found but not at silver price level
08 March 2021If the famous image of the Milton Shield by Elkington and its £800-1200 estimate drew a double-take at a recent auction, there was good reason.
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Life is a doodle for a 26-year-old
16 November 2020Not too many artists appearing at regional auctions have over two million followers on Instagram but, then again, not too many are like Mr Doodle (b.1994).
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Lothians crock rates high in kitchenalia
12 October 2020A small group of Victorian transfer-printed stoneware crocks offered by Taylor’s (24% buyer’s premium) in Montrose on September 16 included a 7½in (18cm) butter crock with the logo of the Lothians Dairy Co of Slate Ford Road, Edinburgh.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2000 including a Louisa Canziani oil on canvas
28 September 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Louisa Canziani painting.
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‘A key figure in London’s Caribbean Artists Movement’
21 September 2020The auction record for modern Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams (1926-1990) was broken three times at auctions in the south of England this summer.
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Scandinavian silver showcase in Sussex
25 May 2020Svend Hammershøi (1873-1948), younger brother of painter Vilhelm, is best known as a ceramicist but he was also a silversmith.
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Rolex Submariner leads selection of watches that tick the boxes
13 April 2020Since its launch in 1953 there have been well over a dozen distinct references of the Rolex Submariner, with all sorts of minutiae adding up to several hundred different variants.
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