Mallams
Mallams has been trading since 1788 and now has salerooms in Oxford, Cheltenham and Abingdon as well as a valuation office in Burford.
In addition to conducting general sales, house sales and a biannual ‘House and Garden’ sale, they also hold specialist auctions of 20th century art, books and manuscripts, ceramics and glass, clocks and barometers, collectables, Eastern and Oriental art, furniture, paintings, silver, jewellery and watches.
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A Constable sketch, a Hornby locomotive and The Wind in the Willows first-edition are among the five lots to watch at auction this week
29 June 2020With estimates from £700-20,000 here are five previews of upcoming items this week.
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Auction previews: issue 2443
18 May 2020The auction calendar has been much changed by Covid 19 restrictions. However, as indicated by these lots offered for sale, an increasing number of auction houses are transacting safely behind closed doors holding timed sales or ‘live online’ sales with bids taken via bidding platforms such as thesaleroom.com or over the phone. Typically purchases can either be collected safely and couriered, or stored by the auction house until the current government guidance is lifted. With auction houses set to be able to be reopen premises to the public from June 1, more and more sales are now being added to the auction calendar.
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Auction calendar begins revival via the virtual rostrum
27 April 2020After a month’s hiatus, a number of top-tier regional auction houses are returning to the rostrum to conduct ‘live online’ sales.
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Victorian travel wardrobe draws interest as it reappears at auction
06 April 2020This deluxe Victorian travel accessory is a ‘campaign wardrobe’ made by Robinson & Sons of Ilkley, Yorkshire.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2500 including a William Gear acrylic painting
30 March 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a William Gear acrylic painting.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2500 including an Edith Lawrence linocut
09 March 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Edith Lawrence linocut.
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BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Grim toll of plagues up to 1666
09 March 2020List of deaths is timely reminder that outbreaks are nothing new
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Sexy and sultry Flint tempts buyer
09 March 2020Textbook watercolour by the British artist takes one of his higher prices in recent years.
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Nelson bust sails high to top sale
17 February 2020While furniture and books fully justified its title, The Oxford Library Sale at Mallams (22.5% buyer’s premium) was led by a surprise star: a rather lowly regarded gesso bust of the sort that would have been a minor decoration to such a room.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3000 including an Eric Ravilious print
13 January 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Eric Ravilious print.
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Pair of Hodgkins high sale prices
06 January 2020Two Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) gouache watercolours painted during her artistic prime were taken to multi-estimate sums at separate UK salerooms in the same week.
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2250 including a David Young Cameron castle view
23 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a David Young Cameron castle view.
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Charity shop rewarded for auction decision on donated ring
17 December 2019Charity may begin at home, but sometimes it ends in the saleroom. A ring brought into a charity shop nearly doubled its top estimate at auction in Surrey.
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Pick of the week: Gimson is top dog of Arts & Crafts
16 December 2019Cotswolds steel masterworks bring £50,000.
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Lambarde on Anglo-Saxon laws
18 November 2019A rare work by William Lambarde, the antiquarian, writer on legal subjects and author of the first county history, A Perambulation of Kent of 1576, was another highlight from the library of the late Eric Stanley, professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford (see reports in previous ATGs).
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Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2800 including a Graham Sutherland watercolour.
11 November 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Graham Sutherland watercolour.
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Rossetti depicts father and son
11 November 2019A crayon portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) surfaced at Oxford saleroom Mallams (22.5% buyer’s premium) together with another of the sitter’s father.
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Gilt bronze buddha from charity shop makes five-figure sum at Gloucestershire auction
06 November 2019A gilt bronze model of a buddha donated to a charity shop by a donor took a hammer price of £15,000 at an auction in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
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Powell stained glass panels shine in sale
28 October 2019As part of a House & Garden sale, the top-seller at Mallams (22.5% buyer’s premium) in Abingdon was a set of six stained-glass panels by James Powell & Sons of Whitefriars.
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