Auctioneers

The June 8 sale at Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) in Washington, West Sussex included a fine example of Meiji cloisonné by Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845-1927).

Needing work but with an impeccable pedigree, this striking drop-dial wall clock topped the day at Bellmans (25% buyer’s premium).

An early career in London led Chris Ewbank, who died on June 25 aged 78, to the auction business at the Cubitt & West salerooms in Guildford – a few miles west of his childhood home in Mayfield, Sussex, where his father was an estate agent-cum-auctioneer.

Works by Reginald Pepper (fl.1970s-90s) are not very common at auction – and this is not just because he doesn’t exist.

Chris, who was universally described as a gentleman by all who knew him, started his lifelong career (he missed national service by one day) aged 17 at Morphets Auctioneers in Harrogate.

Another tranche of items from the Dudley Ollis collection of playing cards was offered at a recent Dominic Winter auction.

Painting of an Indian Mutiny scene smashes the record thanks to bidding from the sub-continent

Signed and dated 'T Beach Pinxt 1793', this portrait depicts the famous Georgian beauty Anne Templar, Lady de la Pole (1758-1832).

Auction house Hansons has opened its sixth saleroom, this time in Hertfordshire.

Inscription by AA Milne using his nickname boosts price of a limited-edition copy to £21,000

Buffy Parker is celebrating 50 years in the art market.

A Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) portrait that made a record for any work sold at auction in Europe helped lift the latest series of Modern and Contemporary sales in London.

Vendor finds glass marbles are worth more than expected as they make surprise four-figure sums in Bury St Edmunds

A bound volume presenting the first seven issues of Magic Comic issued by DC Thomson in 1939 proved a highlight in a Comic Book Auctions (19% buyer’s premium) sale of June 4.

Auctioneer Chris Ewbank, who launched the Ewbank’s saleroom in Send, Surrey, has died.

Pieces from two single-owner collections of silver by Stuart Devlin (1931-2018) and the partnership of Omar Ramsden (1873-1939) and Alwyn Carr (1872-1940) focused specialist eyes on Murray’s (20% buyer’s premium) in Douglas, Isle of Man.

Three auctions follow on from the October series to offer items from the collectors’ Californian residence

A chance purchase at auction during lockdown inspired a whole book on a single day of the Tour de France 100 years ago