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Regional rooms move studio pottery into the mainstream
08 January 2018Two pre-Christmas sales, one at Woolley & Wallis (22% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury and one at Mallams (20% buyer’s premium) in Oxford, highlighted the move of studio pottery from esoteric niche into the mainstream market.
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Vase with provenance shows market is far from jaded
08 January 2018Jade remains ever-popular in the Chinese art field, although the market has become selective.
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A sauce boat fit for island life
08 January 2018More Channel Islands silver to add to over 250 pieces dispersed as part of the Paint collection at Martel Maides earlier this year came to auction recently.
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The science of selling whisky
08 January 2018The season, the spirit in question and the location of the sale put this bottle of Lagavulin whisky, below, into the spotlight.
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Top gear drives auction highs in south London
02 January 2018Which sector of the traditional antiques trade has been on an unbroken, record-busting rise since the early years of the century?
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Enigma machine with extra rotor
02 January 2018Where scientific instruments are concerned, recent highlights such as Albert Einstein’s telescope or a working example of the Apple 1 computer could have been selected. However, we begin instead with the improved, four-rotor Enigma cipher machine.
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Giant small clock and mini longcase both tick auction boxes
02 January 2018Qualifying for the oxymoronic term ‘giant carriage clock’, the 8in (20cm) tall gilt-metal carriage clock shown below had the quality to trigger a bidding battle between specialists at Chilcotts (19.5% buyer’s premium) in Honiton on December 2.
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KPM porcelain plaque is an object of desire
02 January 2018The most desirable of all porcelain plaques produced by KPM in the late 19th century are those that leave little to the imagination. However, evidence of their continued popularity across many different subject matters came in the form of this example below.
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How to cash in on top attic discoveries
02 January 2018Beloved of TV antiques programmes and of bidders knowing the lots are absolutely fresh to market, there are few phrases to stir the blood at an auction as much as ‘from the attic’.
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D-Day dummy drops in to NY auction
02 January 2018Overall, a Voices of the 20th Century sale held by Bonhams New York (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) on December 6 was rather disappointing, with only 100 of 264 lots sold (and only six of the 55 Russian lots). However, among the more curious entries was the ‘Paradummy’ pictured below.
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The ceramics scene setters
18 December 2017While English ceramics feature in most provincial sales, November provided four auctions where the market could be looked at overall.
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Cider and a scapegoat in focus in Salisbury sale
11 December 2017Engraved 18th century glassware opened the sale at Woolley & Wallis (22% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury on October 18.
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Raise your glasses to the Kaplan collection sold at auction
11 December 2017A full saleroom and a sell-out are not necessarily features you associate with traditional fields such as English drinking glasses but there are always exceptions.
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Byron, Boatswain and an auction buy with plenty of bite
04 December 2017In a category of its own – and bringing one of the highest prices at the Tennants autumn sale – was a brass, tooth-edge dog collar engraved Rt. Honble Lord Byron.
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Couple of pearlers at Hampshire auction
04 December 2017Two examples of the 19th century European craftsmen’s love of mother of pearl shone at Hannam’s (20% buyer’s premium) sale at Selborne on November 15.
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Big names bring the impressive prices in Leicestershire
04 December 2017Two big names dominated the 20th Century Decorative Arts sale held by Gildings (15% buyer’s premium) in Market Harborough on November 7.
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Ekco wireless tunes in for a resounding auction result
04 December 2017Sometimes described as the wireless which saved Ekco, the radical Bakelite circular Model AD65 radio designed by Wells Coates in the 1933 sold in its tens of thousands. It restored the fortunes of the Essex factory after a disastrous fire in 1932.
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The Tennants sale barometer shows ‘steady’
04 December 2017If, as generally accepted, the tri-annual fine art sales at Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) can be regarded as something of a barometer of the middle market, the outlook following the autumn sale on November 18 appears rather more steady than the Brexit nervousness talked about elsewhere in the economy.
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Best Trevanion & Dean sale is a suite success
04 December 2017Founded three years ago, the Whitchurch, Shropshire, firm of Trevanion & Dean (19% buyer’s premium) enjoyed its best sale so far when the 950 lots, ranging from Renaissance art to contemporary glass, totalled £250,000 on November 18.
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Cracking price at Suffolk auction
27 November 2017Entered into the October 21 sale at Bishop & Miller (18% buyer’s premium) by a Suffolk vendor thinning out his collection, these carved boxwood nutcrackers, right, made an immediate impact on bidders at the Stowmarket rooms.
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