2022

With estimates from £1000-35,000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a Louis Vuitton trunk discovered in an attic of a Dorset property coming up for sale in a Bournemouth auction.

Special Auction Services is holding an auction in Newbury on August 9-10 that will feature the first part of a single-owner collection of Winston Churchill memorabilia.

A selection of standout lots sold recently – also featuring Del Boy's discovery of Peckham Spring Water

More big names from the art and antiques world have joined the judging panel for the BADA Prize.

A small work on paper by the symbolist Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) led a selection of works from the Isabel Goldsmith collection offered at Christie’s.

A picture believed to be by Artemisia Gentileschi, but previously exported as attributed to the artist, has been seized by Italy's police force.

With estimates from £150-6000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a prototype Bunnykins figure group making an astonishing price in Stoke-on-Trent.

Stanley Gibbons Group, the stamps and coins dealership and auction specialist, has proposed to go private and remove its listing from the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), which is a junior sub-market of the London Stock Exchange.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes two pieces of silver-gilt cutlery from a service made for the French emperor

Frieze Masters is celebrating its 10th anniversary returning to Regent’s Park this autumn from October 12-16.

A new boss for Bonhams’ Knightsbridge saleroom is among the latest updates.

Phillips reported total sales of $746m for the first half of 2022, up 37% on the previous year.

With estimates from £200-7000, here are five previews of upcoming items.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a silver flask looted by British troops from Beijing’s Summer Palace in 1860 being withdrawn from auction.

A handwritten autograph letter signed by J.R.R. Tolkien is to be one of the centrepiece offerings in Heritage Auctions’ Rare Books Signature Auction in Dallas, Texas, July 27-28, estimated at $10,000+.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rare Victorian diamond and ruby bat brooch that sold for 45-times estimate in Somerset.

The first ever complete Gorgosaurus skeleton is to be offered at auction by Sotheby’s.

Christie’s released its first half results for 2022, reporting total sales at £3.3bn ($4.1bn), up 34% on the previous year.