Auctions

Purnell was one of Great Britain’s few Olympic football players and one of a smaller pool of gold medal winners

Metal detecting finds often prove valuable both in terms of heritage and a healthy sum at auction.

A large prime period ‘California’ drawing by David Hockney, recently rediscovered by Chiswick Auctions, comes for sale this month.

The latest jobs news across the world of art and antiques.

A watercolour by Edward Bawden (1903-1989) which was considered lost since the 1940s emerged at the latest fine art sale held at Olympia Auctions.

Two watercolours of the Portuguese colony of Macao by the British colonial artist William Prinsep (1794-1874) sold for record sums in Bonhams’ latest Travel & Exploration sale.

The production-made ticket is among other television and film auction highlights at Bonhams

A deck watch used in Robert Scott’s Terra Nova expedition found with the bodies of the crew has been sold by Bonhams

The emergence of a rare portrait miniature of Robert Emmet, dated c.1803, at Gorringe’s in Lewes proved to be an exciting discovery.

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Thomson Roddick Callan of Carlisle held a 270-lot sale of Antiquarian & Collectable Books and Related Items on June 6.