2022

With estimates from £150-500,000, here are five previews of items coming up this week.

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of a rare flying VC awarded to the commander of the RAF’s 62 Squadron selling at Spink.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rediscovered doucai porcelain vase with Qianlong marks that made over seven-times estimate in Hampshire.

A Farnham antiques centre is hoping to track down items stolen after a break in last week.

Fate played a cruel hand in the case of two Titanic passengers whose stories have come to light through recent auction lots.

One of five different coloured versions of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe silkscreen from 1964 fetched the second highest auction price of all time when it sold at Christie’s New York last night.

New faces at Woolley & Wallis, Runjeet Singh and Freeman’s are among the latest Movers & Shakers.

With estimates from £800-30,000, here are six previews of upcoming items.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a pair of polychrome Windsor chairs sold at auction posing a puzzle for furniture historians.

Auction house Fellows is working with historian Dr Nicola Tallis to host a tour, talks and a musical performance at Harvington Hall.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a Southern Song tea bowl with a presentation mark that attracted a flurry of bids at Hansons.

Diego Maradona’s 1986 World Cup shirt worn in the quarter final against England set a record for any piece of sporting memorabilia when it took £6m at Sotheby’s.

A work by Rebecca Solomon (1832-86) offered at Sotheby’s was bought by The Princeton University Art Museum.

The Fry Art Gallery in Essex has undergone a major refurbishment and one of the first shows is being supported by local auction house Sworders.

With estimates from £800-15,000 here are five previews of upcoming items.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included the sale of a Beatles poster from a 1966 New York concert.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rare anti-slavery glass rummer that went 20-times above estimate in Salisbury.

A rediscovered miniature book by Charlotte Brontë has been sold at a New York book fair.

Collectables group Stanley Gibbons Group has pointed to evidence that both coins and stamps “do well during periods of heightened inflation”.

Among the latest Movers & Shakers news are appointments at Bonhams and Christie’s and a refurbishment at Artcurial.