2024

Guitar belonging to the Beatle was rediscovered in an attic after 50 years

A pocket watch given to Sir Winston Churchill by Henry Herbert Asquith for Christmas in 1905 sold for £76,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Berkshire auction house Dawsons.

Two Cartier brooches commissioned for Lady Courtauld and presented to her by her husband Sir Stephen Courtauld, with designs inspired by their Eltham Palace home, have come for sale at Dreweatts.

An exceptional pair of 16th century Limoges enamels attracted remarkable interest after emerging for sale in Florida.

Trade organisation holds event covering regulations that will impact art, antiques and antiquities dealers

The only US Medal of Honor ever awarded to a Ukrainian soldier is being sold to aid Ukrainian humanitarian efforts.

Worn by the late Queen around 1930 and kept by her nanny ever since, the cotton dress goes to auction in June

The 150th anniversary of the birth of the Colourist painter John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961) is being marked at Lyon & Turnbull on June 6.

The annual London Map Fair, which bills itself as the world’s oldest and largest specialist antiques fair, runs June 15-16 at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington Gore.

With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of London ancient coin business Roma Numismatics closing down.

An auction record for an English silver coin has been set in Zürich.

Ian Bairnson’s guitar featured in Kate Bush’s debut 1978 hit 'Wuthering Heights' is being offered at Gardiner Houlgate in Wiltshire.

Sotheby’s is hosting an exhibition in London this summer featuring 12 works loaned from museums. All the works are by artists who were born overseas but passed through or settled in the UK permanently.

The British Museum has recovered a further tranche of stolen and missing objects from its collection.

Auction house reduces buyers’ and sellers’ fees but rivals are yet to follow suit

Online show features everything from fine art to furniture, Asian art to antiquities

Mostly acquired over a four-year period, a 20-lot collection of Fabergé animals comes to Elmwood’s

This humble but hugely powerful object is a Charleston free badge, an oval copper planchet worn by a freed African slave in South Carolina in the 1780s.

Two valuable Bronze Age gold artefacts have been stolen from Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire.