Hansons

A single coffee can from the Baltic Service was among the highlights of Hansons’ (25% buyer’s premium) sale on June 9, selling to a collector at £2000.

A group of naive oils found boxed up during a house move drew strong interest at Hanson Holloway’s Ross (25% buyer’s premium), making a combined £36,000.

From 1932-34 Clarice Cliff was the art director for a project involving nearly 30 artists of the day to promote good design on tableware.

The Library Auction at Hansons (Bishton Hall, Staffordshire) on June 15 includes this autograph letter by Roald Dahl.

A hoard of Romano-British bronzes discovered by metal detectorists in North Yorkshire last year will be offered at auction.

They sang about a Champagne Supernova but ‘24 large cans of quality lager’ were more to their taste when Oasis stipulated their needs for band and crew at an early gig.

This copper alloy and champleve enamel brooch would once have graced the chariot of an Iron Age chieftain.

A row has erupted over the circumstances surrounding the auction of a collection of Modern British art in Derbyshire in December.

Influential Moses Harris work had made no appearance in auction records and sparked vibrant bidding at Hansons.

A miniature by Henry Bone (1755-1834) depicting the American artist Benjamin West (1738-1820) was among the notable lots at the recent Hansons sale.

Life model depicted by Freud, Auerbach and even Lennon amassed her own art collection

‘Exceptional’ Victorian piece that made £56,000 leads a look at recent notable sale results.

A recent fine art auction at Hansons (25% buyer’s premium) included a once magnificent Qianlong (1735-99) copper-red and underglaze blue lantern vase.

Always popular at auction, always great to write about – so no excuses needed for featuring a selection of the weird and wonderful Second World War spy and sabotage gadgets and ingenious escape devices which do appear often in sales.

English edition of the most famous scientific book of all finally ends up in German hands.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.