Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Five sales to watch at auction this week including vast collections of pedal cars, hole punches and Ysart glass
02 September 2019With estimates from £200-15,000, here are five previews of upcoming sales this week.
Wemyss revisited in spotlight on Scotland’s most famous pottery
02 September 2019Edinburgh auction spotlights the current market for the wares of Scotland’s most famous pottery.
Frog salt cellars leap to great result Down Under
02 September 2019Many of the high prices achieved at last week’s ‘celebrity’ sale titled Bob Hawke & Blanche d’Alpuget: Mementos, Curiosities, Art and Design reflected the impact of souvenir hunters, anxious to own a reminder of Australia’s former prime minister who died earlier this year. But not all of them.
17th century table casket, LS Lowry lithograph and a ‘virtuous’ 19th century board game – six auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes in the last week
30 August 2019ATG’s selection of hammer highlights over the past week includes a 19th century board game designed to deter juvenile minds “from pursuing the dangerous paths of vice”. It sold over 15-times estimate in Bath.
Bought for £1 in a charity shop, will Chinese vase be worth £80,000?
26 August 2019Purchased for £1 from a Hertfordshire charity shop earlier this year, a Qianlong famille rose wall vase will carry an estimate of over £50,000 at Sworders in the autumn.
Pick of the week: American saleroom signals the way to English creamware
26 August 2019Some of the rarest and most desirable of all English creamware jugs were those made for the American market. One of them, titled Signals at Portland Observatory, sold for $4400/£3600 (plus premium) at the Bourgeault-Horan auction in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Collector snaps up best of Charlotte Rhead
26 August 2019‘One-of-a-kind’ tubelined charger by Staffordshire ceramicist brings £3300 on local soil.
How ‘duty dodgers’ can pay their way at auction today
26 August 2019The term ‘duty dodgers’ is applied to pieces that were not sent for assay during the period 1720-58 when a steep tax was placed on silver. Silversmiths had a variety of methods of escaping this tax – including transposing marks from small articles to large or overstriking marks from older pieces.
Mask ‘matches Crosby Garrett find’
26 August 2019Roman relic up for auction is believed to be from same workshop as famous helmet.
Silver auction previews: including a George V bowl modelled on the Winchester measure
26 August 2019A selection of silver lots coming up in the salerooms.
Famed dynasty detailed in diaries and journals
26 August 2019An archive relating to a once famous Suffolk dynasty comes for sale at Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet on September 10-11. The diaries, journals and letters of Lady Ann Cullum (1807-75) of Hardwick House near Bury St Edmunds form part of a Fine Interiors sale.
Tennants appoints new silver specialist
26 August 2019Jeffrey Lassaline has joined Tennants as silver and objects of vertu specialist.
Power of Scotland – spotlight on British silver produced north of the border
26 August 2019Of the 24 silversmiths known to have worked in the Aberdeenshire town of Banff from the 17th century until the trade died out in the mid-1800s, William Scott the Elder is the first whose name is recorded.
Silver hammer highlights: including a table snuff box with an Indian Mutiny connection
26 August 2019A selection of stand-out auction results for silver in recent sales.
