2017

In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. This week, the market tightens and fight gloves pack a punch.

The remains of a sculpture from the 1951 Festival of Britain have been discovered in a south London garden and Historic England is fundraising to restore the artwork to its former glory.

The First World War signals the start of ‘modern warfare’ for most military historians. It was when factors such as mass mobilisations, conscription, railways, machine guns, aeroplanes and gas attacks really came into force with devastating results.

The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, has been awarded £8000 to add to its print collection.

Sotheby’s has bolstered its sculpture department by promoting Alexander Kader and Margaret Schwartz.

A project was launched last week to assess the viability of the UK’s traditional heritage crafts.

More than one hundred antiques, including a significant amount of jewellery, were stolen from a Liverpool dealer.

Fashion and art will come together on the high seas this August as UK dealership Gray MCA brings fashion illustration to the Queen Mary 2’s annual Transatlantic Fashion Crossing.

A painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, a 36-light cut-glass chandelier and a Louis XV tapestry are among the 700 luxury items to be auctioned later this month from one of Northern Ireland’s wealthiest families.

No offence to Neil Diamond, a highly respected singer, but if you are a 12-year-old boy then memorabilia linked to him is not likely to be top of your present list. Fortunately, the other gift was a pair of boxing gloves owned by Muhammad Ali.

The uncomfortable but inescapable fact that a lot of Britain’s wealth was based on business fuelled by slavery was underlined recently by the case of Colston Hall in Bristol.

An outdoor sculpture garden will be unveiled in London’s St James’s Square later this month to promote Christie’s June auctions.

A portrait of a beautiful but mysterious 19th century lady led a sale at Exeter-based auction house Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood taking a hammer price of £155,000.

Stockbroker Killik & Co has signed up to become the sponsor of LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair this year.

The controversial new German cultural heritage law has forced Cologne auctioneers Lempertz to hold its Asian art sale outside of Germany.

Sculpture specialist Tomasso Brothers is set to open a new London gallery this summer.

Dutch Old Master marine painting looted by the Nazis during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 has been returned to Poland.

In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. This week, young girls are observed to sell better than old men and literary anniversaries are shrewdly evaluated.

More than 140 pieces of Wedgwood go on display today in a Surrey Hills stately home.

‘In God we trust’ goes the phrase. It had a double meaning when an American church sold a rare 19th century coin with a result no doubt causing more than a few hallelujahs.