Categories
-
- Arms, Armour & Militaria
- Bank notes
- Books & Periodicals
- Cameras & Camera Equipment
- Classic Cars, Motorcycles & Automobilia
- Coins
- Collectables
- Entertainment Memorabilia
- Kitchenalia
- Maps
- Models, Toys, Dolls & Games
- Musical Instruments & Memorabilia
- Scientific Instruments
- Sporting Memorabilia & Equipment
- Stamps
- Taxidermy & Natural History
- Tools
- Wines & Spirits
- Writing Instruments
News
-
- Art finance
- Auctions
- Brexit
- Buyer's and seller's premiums
- Coronavirus
- Delivery and Shipping
- Education and Training
- Endangered Species
- Events and conferences
- Industry data
- Insurance
- Internet
- Law, crime and regulation
- Museum acquisitions
- Museum deaccessioning
- Obituaries
- Premises and Property
- Private Sales
- Recruitment
- Restoration
- TV shows
-
- 1818 Auctioneers
- Adam Partridge
- Adam's
- Addisons
- AderNordmann
- Aguttes
- Alcala Subastas
- Aldridges
- Amersham Auction Rooms
- Anderson & Garland
- Andrew Smith & Son
- Anthemion
- Antony Cribb
- Artcurial
- Aston's
- Auction Team Breker
- Auctionata
- Babuino
- Bainbridges
- Baldwin's
- Bamfords
- Barbara Kirk
- Barbers
- Batemans
- BBR Auctions
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
- Beaussant Lefèvre
- Bellmans
- Biddle & Webb
- Bigwood
- Bishop & Miller
- Bleasdales
- Bloomsbury Auctions
- Boldon Auction Galleries
- Bonhams
- Boningtons
- Bourne End Auction Rooms
- Brighton General Auctions
- Brightwells
- Bristol Auction Rooms
- Browns
- Bruun Rasmussen
- Burstow & Hewett
- Byrnes
- C&T
- Canterbury Auction Galleries
- Capes Dunn
- Catherine Southon
- Cato Crane
- Charles Miller
- Charles Ross Auctioneers
- Charterhouse
- Cheffins
- Chilcotts
- Chippenham Auction Rooms
- Chiswick Auctions
- Chorley's
- Christie's
- Clars Auction Gallery
- Clevedon Salerooms
- Comic Book Auctions
- Cotswold Auction Company
- Cottees
- Cowans
- Criterion
- Crow’s Auctions Gallery
- Cuttlestones
- Czerny
- David Duggleby
- David Lay
- Dawsons
- Denhams
- Dix Noonan Webb
- Dominic Winter
- Dorotheum
- Doyle New York
- Dreweatts
- Duke's
- Durrants
- East Bristol Auctions
- Eastbourne Auctions
- Elmwood’s
- Elstob & Elstob
- Ewbank's
- Fellows
- Fieldings
- Fine Art Auction Group
- Fine Art Bourse
- Flints Auctioneers
- Fonsie Mealy
- Forum Auctions
- Frank Marshall
- Freeman's
- Gardiner Houlgate
- Gary Don
- George Kidner
- Gildings
- Golding Young & Mawer
- Gorringes
- Graham Budd
- Grand Auctions
- Greenslade Taylor Hunt
- Gros & Delettrez
- H&H Classics
- Halls Fine Art
- Hampstead Auctions
- Hannam’s
- Hansons
- Hartleys
- Henry Adams
- Henry Aldridge & Son
- Heritage Auctions
- Hermann Historica
- High Road Auctions
- Hindman
- Holloways
- Holt's
- Hôtel Drouot
- Humbert & Ellis
- Hutchinson Scott
- Jacobs & Hunt
- John Nicholson
- John Pye Auctions
- JS Auctions
- Jubilee Auction Rooms
- Juliens
- Kerry Taylor
- KettererKunst
- Keys
- Kidson-Trigg
- Kingham & Orme
- Knights Auctions
- Knowle Auction Rooms
- Lacy Scott & Knight
- Laidlaw
- Lawrences of Bletchingley
- Lawrences of Crewkerne
- Lempertz
- Leonard Joel
- Lindsay Burns
- Lockdales
- London Auctions
- Lots Road Auctions
- Louis Taylor
- Lyon & Turnbull
- MacDougall's
- Mallams
- Martel Maides
- Maxwells
- McTear's
- Mellors & Kirk
- Michael Bowman
- Mitchells
- Moore Allen & Innocent
- Morphets
- Morton & Eden
- Mossgreen
- Mullock's
- Nagel
- Nesbits
- Netherhampton Salerooms
- Nicholas Mellors
- Noble Investments
- Olympia Auctions
- Onslows
- Osenat
- Paddle8
- Paul Beighton Saleroom
- PBA Galleries
- Peter Francis
- Peter Wilson
- Philip Serrell
- Phillips
- Piasa
- Pierre Bergé & Associes
- Piers Motley
- Plymouth Auction Rooms
- Potteries Auctions
- Rago Auctions
- Railtons
- Reeman Dansie
- Richard Edmonds Auctions
- Richard Winterton
- Ritchies
- Rogers Jones
- Roseberys
- Ross’s of Belfast
- Ryedale
- Semley
- Sheffield Auction Gallery
- Silverwoods
- Skinner
- Sotheby's
- Sovereign Rarities
- Special Auction Services
- Spicers
- Spink
- St Jamess Auctions
- Staceys
- Stanley Gibbons Group
- Stride & Son
- Stroud Auctions
- Summers Place Auctions
- Swann
- Sworders
- Tajan
- Tamlyns
- Tayler and Fletcher
- Taylor's Auctions
- Tennants
- The Pedestal
- Thimbleby & Shorland
- Thomas Del Mar
- Thomas N Miller
- Thomas R Callan
- Thomas Watson
- Thomson Roddick & Medcalf
- Thomson Roddick Scottish Auctions
- Timeline
- Toovey's
- Trevanion & Dean
- TW Gaze
- Vectis
- Veritas
- W&H Peacock
- Wellers
- Whytes
- Wilkes & Curtis
- William George & Co
- Woolley & Wallis
- Wotton Auction Rooms
- Wright Marshall
-
- 1stdibs
- Advertising Standards Authority
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association
- Antique Young Guns
- Antiquities Dealers’ Association
- Art Business Conference
- Art Fund
- Art Loss Register
- Art Recovery International
- Art UK
- Arts Council England
- Assay Office
- Auction Technology Group
- BADA
- BAMF
- CADA
- CINOA
- Company of Arts Scholars
- DACS
- DEFRA
- DMG
- EBay
- Hiscox
- LAPADA
- Lot-tissimo
- National Trust
- NAVA
- Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association
- RICS
- Society of London Art Dealers
- SOFAA
- the saleroom
- Triple-A Auctioneers
-
- Affordable Art Fair
- Antiques Centres
- Antiques for Everyone Fair
- Ardingly Fair
- Art Antiques London
- Arthur Swallow Fairs
- Bath Decorative Antiques Fair
- Battersea Decorative Fair
- Bermondsey Market
- Book Fairs
- BRAFA
- British Art Fair
- Brussels Fairs
- CADA Fair
- Car Boot Fairs
- Clarion Events
- Continuity Fairs
- Cooper Events
- Fine Art Asia
- Fine Arts Paris
- Florida Fairs
- French Fairs
- Frieze
- Frieze Masters
- Galloway Antiques Fairs
- Harrogate Fairs
- Hatton Garden
- Haughton Fairs
- Hong Kong Fairs
- IACF
- Jaguar Fairs
- LAPADA Fair
- Lincolnshire Antiques and Home Show
- Masterpiece
- Miami Fairs
- Midcentury Modern
- Modern British Art Fair
- NEC Birmingham
- New York Fairs
- Newark Fair
- Newbury Antiques and Collectors Fair
- Olympia Fair
- PAD London
- Palm Beach Fairs
- Paris Biennale
- Paris Fairs
- Paris Parcours
- Paris Tableau
- Penman Fairs
- Philadelphia Fairs
- Regional Fairs
- Salon du Dessin
- Sandown Park Racecourse Fair
- Showground Fairs
- Swinderby Fair
- TEFAF
- The Open Art Fair
- Winter Antiques Show
- Works on Paper Fair
-
- A Lawyer Writes
- Around the Auction Houses
- Art Market
- Auction Reports
- Bid Barometer
- Books and Works on Paper
- Dealers' Diary
- Fairs & Markets (print edition)
- Features
- Front Page and News
- International (print edition)
- Interviews and Newsmakers
- Letters to the Editor
- News in Brief
- Obituaries (print edition)
- Opinion
- Pick of the Week
- Precious Metals Prices
- Previews
- Soapbox
- Special Reports
- Then & Now
Gun

Sporting guns spark sale interest
05 October 2020This 12-bore self-opening sidelock ejector by James Purdey & Sons sold for £14,000 at the Gavin Gardiner (25% buyer’s premium) sale in Pulborough on September 2.

New government measures to control antique firearms
13 September 2020A crackdown on antique firearms is due to become law following the introduction of new legislation by government.

Go for a Gatling to get bling for your bucks
20 January 2020Any museum or collector seeking a centrepiece for their display need look no further than the Gatling gun – a pivotal invention that makes its presence felt by its sheer size and bling.

Holts heads home to the rural charm of Norfolk
20 January 2020December 10 marked a significant step in the history of specialist sporting and antique gun auction house Holts (25-20% buyer’s premium).

Rock Island auction goes supersize
20 January 2020If proof were needed that firearms sales are simply conducted on a completely different scale in the US, one need look no further than the three-day sale at Rock Island Auctions (18.5% buyer’s premium) in Illinois on December 6-8.

German game guns boast royal pedigree
12 August 2019Fine German sidelock ejectors do not feature often in the London salerooms but Gavin Gardiner’s 25% buyer’s premium) May 1 sale of sporting guns at Sotheby’s in London produced a pair that not only scored on quality but had a history to back it up.

Van Gogh’s ‘suicide’ gun sells for €130,000 at auction in Paris
19 June 2019The gun believed to be the weapon used by Vincent van Gogh to shoot himself in the summer of 1890 was knocked down at an €130,000 (£116,070) at auction in Paris.

Tiny 'Protector’ palm pistol offered in Pennsylvania
08 April 2019This Chicago Firearms Co ‘The Protector’ palm pistol is estimated at $800-1200 in the Pook & Pook auction in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on April 13.

Tipu Sultan battlefield spoils dispersed at Oxfordshire auction
01 April 2019A rifle from the personal armoury of Tipu Sultan sold for £60,000 in Oxfordshire last week.

ATG letter: Deactivated weapons - why salerooms have to be aware
05 November 2018MADAM – Responding to your article in ATG No 2365 ('UK salerooms 'not aware' of new laws on deactivated firearms'), I felt compelled to write in.
UK auction rooms ‘not aware’ of new laws on deactivated firearms
29 October 2018The National Ballistics and Intelligence Service (NABIS) has warned of a rise in defectively deactivated firearms offered at auction since the law changed this summer.

Pick of the Week: Audubon gun at auction is blast from the past
22 October 2018Was this the gun that John James Audubon (1785-1851) used to create the world’s most expensive natural history book?

Antique guns are not a legal loophole, say trade associations
27 August 2018Trade associations have defended the current firearms laws in the UK amid accusations on a BBC Panorama programme of a ‘loophole’ in gun control.

Panorama investigation to focus on antique guns ‘loophole’ ahead of government changes to law
20 August 2018A BBC Panorama investigation, due to broadcast tonight, details how legal antique guns can be used by criminals who illegally obtain ammunition to commit crime.

The game gun owned by both Louis XVI and Napoleon
06 August 2018On the day that the Bastille was stormed Louis XVI famously recorded “rien” (nothing) in his game book.

Success for slim and sleek styling at Holts
06 August 2018The classic English sporting gun is a sidelock, but for many the ‘round-action’ shotguns perfected by John Dickson of Edinburgh in the 1870s are the most elegant of all.

Auctions in Germany that explode into life
25 June 2018Germany’s most expensive painting sold at auction, an unusual early firearm and a fin de siècle snake charmer are among the highlights featured here from recent auctions in Munich, Berlin and Cologne.

Previews: £30,000 plus
11 September 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

- Bolton Auction Rooms
- General
- 18 Jan 2021 - 10:00 AM
- Keys Fine Art Auctioneers
- Antique & Modern Furniture
- 18 Jan 2021 - 10:30 AM
- Babuino Casa d'Aste
- Winter Sale
- 19 Jan 2021
- Eppli Auktionshalle
- Antiques & General
- 19 Jan 2021
- Arthur Johnson & Sons
- Antiques & Furniture
- 19 Jan 2021 - 09:30 AM
- Gildings
- Furniture
- 19 Jan 2021 - 10:00 AM
