Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Gaming board pays £30,000
23 March 2020A valuation day in Tunbridge Wells led to the consignment of a late-16th century south German rosewood and bone gaming board at Catherine Southon.
Baroque ivory sleeper could be Schenck masterwork
23 March 2020This stellar 17th century Baroque ivory plaque depicting the Pieta attended by angels and putti carries the name 'IC Storer' for the German artist Johann Christoph Storer (1621-71).
18th century creamware mug, Victorian deluxe campaign wardrobe, early electrostatic generator – five auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes
20 March 2020ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes an 18th century creamware mug that evokes the hysteria that greeted the Catholic Relief Act of 1778. It sold for over 12-times estimate.
Unseen for a century, pocket watches bring £145,000 in Surrey sale
20 March 2020A cache of pocket watches, unseen on the market for close to a century, sold for £145,000 in Surrey today.
Rare and early The Who poster headlines Somerset auction
18 March 2020A poster for a gig by The Who at The Blue Moon Club in Cheltenham attracted fans at a recent Gardiner Houlgate sale.
Coronavirus: Christie’s postpones many forthcoming international sales and shuts down offices
16 March 2020Christie’s has chosen to postpone many of its forthcoming international sales and close most of its offices in response to the coronavirus. The firm's March and April calendar is being restructured with sales in New York and Paris put on hold for at least two months, although its London office remains open.
Trio of high-value paintings stolen in raid on Oxford college collection
16 March 2020Three Old Master paintings, including Annibale Carracci’s A Boy Drinking, have been stolen from a museum in Oxford.
16th century whistle, rare portrait miniature and Samuel Palmer print – six lots to watch at auction this week
16 March 2020With estimates from £200-8000, here are six previews of upcoming items this week.
Previews: Up to £2000
16 March 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at upcoming auctions. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise checking that the auction will take place as planned before travelling to the saleroom.
Previews: £2001 - £4000
16 March 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at upcoming auctions. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise checking that the auction will take place as planned before travelling to the saleroom.
Previews: £2001- £3000
16 March 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at upcoming auctions. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise checking that the auction will take place as planned before travelling to the saleroom.
Subbuteo space oddity soars in Essex saleroom
16 March 2020Among the rarest of all Subbuteo games invented and manufactured by Peter Adolph in Tunbridge Wells are those without a sporting theme.
Previews: £4001 - £20,000
16 March 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at upcoming auctions. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise checking that the auction will take place as planned before travelling to the saleroom.
Le Goût Rothschild for sale in Salisbury
16 March 2020This pair of 19th century continental silver-gilt figure groups is among the objects from a Rothschild collection to be sold by Woolley & Wallis later this year.
Previews: £20,000 plus
16 March 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at upcoming auctions. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise checking that the auction will take place as planned before travelling to the saleroom.
Coronavirus: Phillips postpones international auction schedule
15 March 2020Auction house Phillips has decided to postpone all of its sales and events globally until mid-May.
Victorian table, Duleep Singh’s hawking bell and Ottoman portrait miniature – five auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes
13 March 2020ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes an occasional table by Johan Marti Levien made from exotic New Zealand woods that made six-times estimate in Newbury.
‘A pivotal piece of video game history’: PlayStation prototype from failed Sony-Nintendo partnership draws huge bidding in Texas auction
11 March 2020A prototype of the PlayStation has sold for $300,000 at auction in Texas. The 28-year-old gaming console, offered by Heritage Auctions as part of a sale in Dallas this week is thought to be the sole survivor from 200 made during a failed joint-venture between Sony and Nintendo in c.1992.
First major UK antiques fair to be cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak
10 March 2020The spring Art & Antiques for Everyone fair at the NEC has become the first major UK antiques fair to be cancelled following the coronavirus outbreak.
Goddess of love tempts bidders and sells for £60,000 at Dominic Winter
09 March 2020This finely modelled Hellenistic white marble figure of Aphrodite sold for £60,000 (plus 24% buyer’s premium) at Dominic Winter in South Cerney on March 5. Bidding opened at £30,000, twice the low estimate, before bids were exchanged between the internet and the phones.