Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Charles Darwin presentation copy of On the Origin of Species is among five lots to watch
18 March 2024With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
Fang head shows bite for a new tribal record
18 March 2024A new record for African or Oceanic tribal art was set at Christie’s in Paris as part of the sale of the remarkable Barbier-Mueller collection.
Marathon Withers collection sale brings £1.28m rewards
18 March 2024“He stored everything like Russian dolls, everything packed away into something else."
The George Withers auction: ‘I knew this wouldn’t come round again’
18 March 2024An auction house has existed in the Dore & Rees premises, a Victorian gothic building on Vicarage Street, Frome, since 1868.
Travel tales by Emily Eden told in art and words
18 March 2024Sketches and journal by Emily Eden relate to her life in the UK then journey to the subcontinent
New benchmark for tribal art as Fang head makes €12.6m at Christie’s
14 March 2024A new record for African or Oceanic tribal art was set at Christie’s in Paris as part of the sale of the remarkable Barbier-Mueller collection.
Roman portrait busts highlight Lyon & Turnbull’s first ancient art auction
12 March 2024Three over life-size Roman portrait busts with an 18th century provenance linked to Cobham Hall in Kent come for sale at Lyon & Turnbull this month.
A race suit worn by Sir Stirling Moss is among five lots to watch
11 March 2024With estimates from £1500, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
Signatures provide a roll call of British PMs from Robert Walpole to Rishi
11 March 2024A private collection comprising the signatures of every one of Britain’s prime ministers sold for £8000 as part of a designated timed online sale of Autographs and Memorabilia.
One of the Four Indian Kings visits a US saleroom
11 March 2024Rare prints from a remarkable collection deaccessioned from a library in Massachusetts came for sale at Tremont Auctions (24% buyer’s premium) on February 25.
Simple style but 1950s watches can be high tech
11 March 2024Beneath the simple ‘1950s dress watch’ styling, the Jaeger LeCoultre Geophysic hides a lot of post-war tech.
Regency beauties: New York auction offers pair of Lawrence portraits
11 March 2024Two portraits of Regency beauties by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) come for sale at Cottone Auctions in Geneso, New York, on March 20. Both come by descent from by the Buffalo industrialist Colonel Charles Clifton (1853-1928) who paid huge sums for them in the early 1920s.
Name recognition builds brand awareness when it comes to watches
11 March 2024Brand names are everything in watch collecting.
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
Two lots both with one careful owner since new
11 March 2024Watches with provenance will naturally command a premium.
Teapot displays dual combination of Doccia porcelain technique
11 March 2024Ceramics historian cited this item to show how two types of decoration were used in combination
'Spaceview' was among the first commercially successful electronic watches
11 March 2024Introduced in 1960, the Bulova Accutron 214 was one of the electronic trailblazers.
Sleeper in Portsmouth: Chinese vases removed from attic make thousands of times estimate
08 March 2024Following an extraordinary 20 minutes of bidding, a pair of Chinese vases now hold the house record at Portsmouth firm Nesbits Auctions.