Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell

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Straits Settlement porcelain hits top sum

23 September 2024

A new auction record has been set for Peranakan or Straits Settlement porcelain in Singapore.

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Pick of the Week: Constable's letter from key patron

23 September 2024

A letter written to John Constable by a key patron formed part of the sale of Old Masters and 19th Century Art at Chiswick Auctions on September 18.

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Cricket covered in the form of a mock-heroic poem

23 September 2024

An auction of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanacks and Cricket Books at Knights Sporting Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Norwich on September 14-15 was led by a first edition of the first separately published poem on cricket.

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Qianlong period enamels up for auction in Surrey

23 September 2024

Aubreys, the recently launched auction house holding sales at Loseley Park, Guildford, is offering a single-owner collection of Qianlong period painted enamels on September 26.

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Autograph book from disinherited daughter of a three-times Prime Minister signs off at £16,000

19 September 2024

A descendent of Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, who was Prime Minister three times in the 1850s and 1860s, consigned an extraordinary autograph album for sale at Chiswick Auctions.

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Record for Straits Settlement porcelain as ‘dragon and phoenix’ basin brings 61 bids

17 September 2024

A new auction record has been set for Peranakan or Straits Settlement porcelain in Singapore.

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Museum given jewellery by dealer Wartski

16 September 2024

London dealership Wartski has donated a collection of jewellery made by the Arts & Crafts silversmith Frederick Partridge to the Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft.

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US institution buys extraordinary harp-guitar

16 September 2024

The final day of Gardiner Houlgate’s latest guitar auction included a remarkable Victorian-era instrument: a rosewood and mother of pearl inlaid harp-guitar or ‘guitarpa’.

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Maps make Mary Tudor’s own copy of pioneering history work highly desirable

16 September 2024

Mary Tudor’s personal copy of Vergil’s history of England has sold at auction for £140,000.

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Rare book on mining history features among five lots to watch

16 September 2024

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

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Cuneo and Spear star in auction double act

16 September 2024

What 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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Film reels help to reveal story of a brigadier who came up with the name of the Special Air Service

16 September 2024

A collection of cinefilms belonging to Brigadier Dudley Clarke (1899-1974), a key figure behind British military deception operations during the Second World War, was sold by Chiswick Auctions (26% buyer’s premium) on August 7.

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Disappearing American tribes brought alive thanks to Thomas McKenney

16 September 2024

Copy of well-known enlightened work featuring portraits and biographies comes to London saleroom

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Maker may be a mystery but demand for unusual work by Australian goldsmith is definite

16 September 2024

The latest sale of Objects of Vertu at Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) in West Sussex included two impressive examples of mid-20th century Australian goldsmithing.

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Douglas Anderson's huge private collection of Scottish militaria comes to auction

16 September 2024

Anderson & Garland (25% buyer’s premium) of Newcastle upon Tyne offered the private collection of militaria and weapons belonging to Douglas Napier Anderson (b.1927).

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Final Flower collection sale comes up with a coveted Crealock Minton classic

16 September 2024

The vulture and serpent teapot designed for Minton by the Victorian soldier, artist and writer Colonel Henry Hope Crealock in 1874, is considered the most coveted of all majolica teapots.

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Previews: issue 2660

16 September 2024

Our selection of lots from 11 upcoming auctions.

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Single-owner collection of biscuit tins gets novelty treatment at McTear’s

16 September 2024

Barrie Lewis, a Midlands wholesaler of cakes, biscuits and confectionery, began collecting old biscuit tins after he received one as a birthday gift in the early 1980s.

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Groundbreaking and influential works uncover Yorkshire geology

16 September 2024

The most eagerly contested lot of the Books, Maps and Manuscripts Sale at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) on August 23 was one comprising two volumes containing influential works on geology and palaeontology by John Phillips (1800-74) and William Buckland (1784-1856).

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Roll map shows the very narrow road to Durham

16 September 2024

Pictured here is a detail from an 18th century parchment roll map documenting the primary roads on a journey from London to Durham through the counties of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire and Durham.