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Musket ball from Battle of Waterloo aims for auction glory
17 July 2024Bidders are already fired up for this intriguing relic
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PG Wodehouse presentation copy comes in sought-after dust jacket
29 April 2024The third book in the 'Blandings Castle' saga by PG Wodehouse was first published in the United States on July 1, 1929 by Doubleday Doran, New York, under the title 'Fish Preferred'.
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Subject matter boosts sampler to over 80 times estimate
08 April 2024Embroidered samplers can appeal to buyers for all kinds of different reasons.
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Name recognition builds brand awareness when it comes to watches
11 March 2024Brand names are everything in watch collecting.
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Watches: How military precision massively influenced design
11 March 2024The wristwatch, which began to replace the pocket watch in the First World War, really came into its own with the production of bespoke ‘tool’ watches for submariners and airmen later in the century
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Battle for lowly-estimated Empire period Sèvres plates
11 September 2023A group of nine Empire period Sèvres porcelain plates were the object of keen interest when they came up for sale at Lockdales in Ipswich on August 31.
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Manchester United match programmes ‘could be unique survivors’
20 March 2023A pair of football programmes proved the pull of early Manchester United memorabilia remains strong among collectors
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It must be love for a buyer who bid £2900 on a Troika plaque
13 March 2023The first of the Troika ‘Love’ plaques was made by Benny Sirota as a present for his mother.
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Christopher Dresser: ‘I propose three feet formed as to serve as handles’
06 March 2023Dr Christopher Dresser’s conical sugar bowl with three angled leg-like supports is one of the great ‘eureka’ moments in Victorian design.
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Tankard has the look of the Irish
06 March 2023Size, quality and sheer Irishness made the tankard shown here the toast of the silver sold at Ipswich auction house Lockdales (19.5% buyer’s premium).
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Thai 10 Baht now worth £12,000
19 December 2022This Thailand 10 Baht note appears to be a printer’s design that was unissued.
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Victorian silver shaving pot sells at Lockdales
14 November 2022This rare and unusual item is a late Victorian campaign shaving companion.
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‘Magnificent’ medal collection generates many four-figure results at Suffolk sale
13 June 2022A private medal collection rated by Ipswich saleroom Lockdales (18% buyer’s premium) as “magnificent” was offered on May 20-22.
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Uniform for a (very) small soldier
04 April 2022This Victorian tailor-made military uniform by A Succaram Tookaram & Sons, Tailors, 273 Main Street, Poona was estimated at £150-200 at Lockdales (18% buyer’s premium) in Ipswich.
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Recognition for the ‘quartz crisis’ casualties
07 March 2022Although Roamer fell victim to the ‘quartz crisis’ – the introduction of quartz watches in the 1970s and early 1980s that largely replaced mechanical watches – in the 1950s-60s the firm enjoyed a good reputation as the maker of good-quality, affordable automatic mechanical watches.
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Rare piece of Polar memorabilia flies above estimate at Ipswich auction
01 October 2021A fine lot of Polar memorabilia surfaced at Lockdales in Ipswich. It came by descent from William Lashly (1867-1940), chief stoker during the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to Antartica in 1911-12.
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German Maxim machine gun makes five times low estimate in Ipswich sale
19 July 2021The German Maxim machine gun was used to devastating effect on Allied troops during the First World War.
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Obesity crisis? But not in the saleroom it seems…
15 March 2021Entered from the estate of an Ipswich craftsman-hobbyist, the corpulent figures shown below were two of his 144 wood carvings which met unexpected demand.
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Two electronic watches making three figures at auction
08 March 2021Introduced in 1960, the Bulova Accutron 214 was among the first commercially successful electronic watch.
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Lockdales finds high demand for militaria in lockdown
01 February 2021Weapons proved a highlight of the Lockdales (18% buyer’s premium) Coins, Medals & Militaria auction on January 23-24 held during the third lockdown.
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