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Take a dive into the prints world of sought-after artist Ravilious
27 August 2024Small group of wartime lithographs that surfaced in a Scotttish saleroom provided a market test
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Quaker antiquary and family put together an extraordinary collection
27 August 2024The first section of the Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) Historic Textiles & Antiques auction on July 26 contained 33 lots of textiles from the collection of the Quaker antiquary Martha Spriggs and her descendants.
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Piech’s Welsh national anthem print is the pick of his work
27 August 2024The printmaker Paul Peter Piech (1920-96) was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ukrainian immigrants.
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Pin ball wizards in play
27 August 2024A recent timed online sale at Bleasdales (20% buyer’s premium) featured a couple of pin balls that performed well.
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Obituary: antiques dealer Paul Lorimer Gifford Nash
27 August 2024We regret to announce the death of Paul Lorimer Gifford Nash (July 27, 1941-June 28, 2024).
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More orphanage samplers in demand as hand-worked textiles prove sought-after
27 August 2024Tennants’ Fashion, Costume and Textiles Sale held on August 16 provided many hammer highlights.
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Lowry and reverend friend go to church together
27 August 2024A joint artwork by LS Lowry and lifelong friend Rev Geoffrey Bennett is among the 1750 lots offered in Mitchells’ three-day Antiques & Fine Art Sale from September 11-13.
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Hockney prints at five and four figures
27 August 2024Two works representing different ends of the David Hockney (b.1937) prints market came up at Chiswick Auctions’ (26% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern & Contemporary Prints and Multiples.
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Original historical dresses spotted by eagle-eyed bidders
27 August 2024A pale blue and white striped garment offered at Martin & Pole’s (22% buyer’s premium) General Auction on August 7 was simply described as an “antique silk dress, appears in a photograph worn by Esther Palmer in around 1925”.
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Early Australia takes shape: maps sold at auction in Melbourne
27 August 2024Seventeenth and 18th century maps sold in Melbourne auction show how much discoveries had revealed
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Flush with cash? Splash out on a Thomas Crapper sanitary ware collection
27 August 2024A celebrated collection of 19th and early 20th century sanitary wares is to be sold.
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Pick of the Week: Not Braveheart but Brucehead…
27 August 2024Long before the American/Australian actor Mel Gibson gladdened Scottish hearts with the woad-splattered film Braveheart, the early 19th century was an awakening for Caledonian identity.
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Surrealist’s revival rolls into Wiltshire
27 August 2024After a lively sell-out exhibition at London’s Maas Gallery, Winsor Birch is about to unveil the second part of Cosmos of Dreams: Rediscovering the Locked Up Genius of Henry Orlik.
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News in brief including the sale of Indiana Jones's fedora
27 August 2024A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the fedora worn by Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom selling at Propstore
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Captain must have made a packet to live in a Falmouth house that grand
27 August 2024Two religious works were among an intriguing archive of items relating to a famed Falmouth packet ship commander and family that impressed at Lay’s (21% buyer’s premium) auction in Lanner, Cornwall, on August 8.
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Sampler made in Bristol fashion
27 August 2024Estimated at £60-100, a late 19th century sampler sold via thesaleroom.com for £4600 at Rogers Jones (22% buyer’s premium) in Colwyn Bay.
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Medal gave thanks for Titanic rescue mission
27 August 2024Noonans’ (24% buyer’s premium) sale in London on July 17 offered a rare Carpathia and Titanic bronze medal.
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Ombersley Court library to be sold at Chorley’s
26 August 2024Gloucestershire saleroom Chorley’s will offer works from the library from Ombersley Court in Worcestershire, seat of the Sandys family for 400 years, at auction next month.
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Top stories this week including an unknown Archibald Knox clock bringing fierce bidding in Glasgow
25 August 2024The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a previously unknown clock designed by Archibald Knox making over nine times estimate
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