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Provence profile – a town of many markets

11 April 2014

The medieval town of L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, near Avignon, is one of the most visited places in Provence.

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Victorian brass rubbings emerge at Norwich fleamarket

11 April 2014

An item with an interesting local connection which is for sale at this Saturday’s Norwich Fleamarket is a rare Victorian large folio of European brass rubbings collected by a Norwich cleric.

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Chinese wig stand sells for £360,000 in Cambridge

08 April 2014

This Qianlong mark and period hat or wig stand sold for a massive £360,000 at a recent Cheffins sale in Cambridge.

NAVA link up with Nigeria

07 April 2014

Auction reports from Nigeria don’t tend to feature too much in ATG, but maybe that could change thanks to the National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers (NAVA).

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Lottery grant brings in Polar archive from the cold

07 April 2014

The Polar Museum in Cambridge has confirmed that it has secured the photographic archive linked to Scott’s last expedition after a public appeal for funds by explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.

£330,000 record for silver coin

07 April 2014

Spink have set a new record for any English silver coin at £330,000, paid for the finest known example of the Reddite, an extremely rare Crown of Charles II dating to 1663.

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Hungary buys half Sevso hoard

04 April 2014

€15m deal sets seal on more than three decades of dispute