Cotswold Auction Company
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Silver: Promising signs for market as metal prices rebound
15 July 2024The market has certainly been challenging but recent results allied with metal prices give encouraging grounds for optimism
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Seat coverings come with Scottish family connection
29 April 2024Pictured here are two lots of seat furniture that impressed bidders in recent auctions in Gloucestershire and Cheshire.
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False teeth that allowed Churchill to make his famous speeches sell for £18,000 at auction
08 February 2024Sir Winston’s Churchill’s false teeth have been snapped up for a hammer price of £18,000 (plus 24% buyer’s premium) after a nail-biting bidding battle attracted would-be buyers from the UK and US.
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Winston Churchill's false teeth and RAF Book of Heroes signed by Douglas Bader come to a Cotswolds saleroom
17 January 2024Stubs of cigars smoked by Winston Churchill are common visitors to auctions. But it is pretty rare to find his gnashers on offer.
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Clean sweep: group of gemellion hand-washing basins at five figures
15 January 2024Limoges is regarded as one of the most important centres in the world for fine enamelware.
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What’s cooking in the Cotswolds: Steadman and Knuttel
04 December 2023It is often said that the mark of a good illustrator is that their work is instantly recognisable.
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Gatehouse panels greeted visitors to earl’s new country seat
06 November 2023Hugely decorative, impeccably provenanced and selling at an impressive sum, a pair of moulded relief panels were another of autumn’s Coade stone stars
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Classic Bawden Essex linocut rides into the Cotswolds
02 October 2023Among the Modern British prints generating interest at auction this summer was a copy of Edward Bawden’s (1903-89) linocut 'The Road to Thaxted'.
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Summer scorchers: Trio of big prices blows away August cobwebs
14 August 2023A usually quiet August was dramatically awakened by a series of sleepers that emerged at three UK regional auction houses.
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From chocolate and tea to tyres and petrol: a promotional selection of results
24 July 2023Recent advertising highlights from UK sales and an Italian auction
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Very desirable, very Moorish
10 July 2023Furniture attributable to Gillows demonstrates demand for desirable pieces
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Mousetrap signed by Agatha Christie for Inspector Morse actor
19 June 2023A 1954 edition of 'The Mousetrap' play script offered on June 6 at the Cotswold Auction Company (24% buyer’s premium) was inscribed by the author “For James Grout on our 6th birthday, Agatha Christie”.
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That’s the way to do it if you buy Punch and Judy at auction
05 December 2022Punch and Judy shows in Britain date back to as early as 1662 – recorded by Pepys – with origins in the charismatic 16th century Italian puppet Pulcinella.
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St George rides in on a charger
12 September 2022The Cotswold Auction Company (22% buyer’s premium) offered this version of the well-known Pilkington’s Lancastrian St George and the Dragon charger in Cheltenham.
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Art Deco suite ‘went to sea’
08 August 2022According to family history, an Art Deco four-piece suite offered by Mander (20% buyer’s premium) in Sudbury on July 9 has an ocean-going history.
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BP battered but still four figures
02 May 2022‘Significant damage and rust’ was spot on as a catalogue description when it came to an enamel sign sold at Cotswold Auction Company (22% buyer’s premium) on February 8. It was a mess.
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Artist Lynch keeps it real
25 April 2022Not all Contemporary art has to be either abstract or wacky.
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Sindy sought by nostalgia-minded collectors
31 January 2022These days, marketing a doll as Sindy’s saucy sister would be problematic. And the less said about outfits titled Hockey Honey or School Days, the better.
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President portrayed in pastel
29 November 2021Portraits by James Sharples (1751-1811) appear to make less money than you might expect given the calibre of his sitters.
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Micro-mosaic pictures fly over estimate and make £100,000 in Cirencester
27 October 2021Two micro-mosaic pictures took a six-figure sum at a Cirencester saleroom – 10-times their low estimate.
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