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Slot machines provide all the fun of the seaside even in rain
15 April 2024Once ubiquitous in British seaside resorts in their day, many pre-war amusement arcade machines are now so rare that just a handful are recorded.
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Nottinghamshire organiser reconfigures event set-up as heavy rain causes problems
25 March 2024Winter 2024 turned out to be the wettest ever in the UK - which inevitably threw up significant challenges for fair organisers.
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An antiques expert with Georgian on his mind
25 March 2024If specialist Karl Martin was the type to take work home with him he’d be in danger of never finding it again.
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Burglar who cut a hole in the floor to steal antique silver from an army museum is jailed
20 March 2024A man who broke into the Royal Lancers & Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum in Nottinghamshire has been jailed.
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Lincolnshire auction house tunes in to local celebrity Claribel
18 March 2024Memorabilia relating to the Victorian songwriter ‘Claribel’ returned home from Malta to be auctioned in Lincolnshire and were bought by the local museum.
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Good Korea move: Joseon helmet soars to £20,500
11 March 2024It may have been catalogued as requiring restoration but a “scarce” 19th century Korean helmet still managed to sell for 82 times its low estimate at Hansons (26% buyer’s premium).
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Atmospheric Foord Hughes painting of a rural scene gathers demand
11 March 2024The highest price at auction for 12 years for Arthur Foord Hughes (1856-1934) came at Nottingham saleroom Mellors & Kirk (24% buyer’s premium) at the start of the year.
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Fashion accessory for a 1930s foxy lady
04 March 2024An Arctic fox fur owned and worn by a 1930s movie star dubbed Britain’s answer to Ginger Rogers turned heads at a Derby saleroom.
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Museum buys fragment thought to be from trail blazing pilot Amy Johnson's crashed plane
28 February 2024Kent Battle of Britain Museum has bought a fragment of wreckage believed to be from the last plane flown by pioneering British aviator Amy Johnson in 1941.
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With huge antiques centres already nearby, Gainsborough gains a dedicated fair
26 February 2024The small town of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire is the perfect pitstop for antiques and vintage buyers, particularly the trade.
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Pick of the week: Coachbuilders archive rolls up to £25,000
12 February 2024With clients including the Maharajah of Kutch, Queen Victoria and multiple princes and dukes, Holmes & Co was one of the top coachbuilders of the 19th century.
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Bible bidders spot a King James sleeper
12 February 2024An ‘18th century’ bible turned out to be far more valuable as a first issue King James “He” version
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Bony slept here: Souvenirs from Napoleon's surrender come to auction
09 February 2024A cache of memorabilia from the descendants of Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland – the officer Napoleon surrendered to aboard HMS Bellerophon on July 15, 1815 – is coming to auction.
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Pick of the week: The ‘engraving’ that bidders discovered was a JMW Turner drawing
29 January 2024A somewhat innocuous-looking lot at Hansons (26% buyer’s premium) proved to be anything but as a number of eagle-eyed bidders spotted a significant discovery contained therein.
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Charity gifts that keep on giving when sold at auction
22 January 2024Spotlight on a couple of shop donations that both ended up making £20,000 hammer prices
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Photo collection offers huge mix of eclectic subjects
22 January 2024A huge collection of black and white, celluloid negatives was described by the Lincoln auction house that offered them as a ‘magnificent, massive, eclectic mix of subjects’.
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Panini also a World Cup winner in 1970 – plus Newton Heath trade card
15 January 2024The 1970 World Cup was the breakthrough year for Panini.
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Snow fails to put off punters at the Pavilion Gardens
15 January 2024Fairs may be hit by snow and other weather hazards but stallholders and intrepid buyers try to carry on regardless.
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Third Burges brooch emerges at auction following Antiques Roadshow appearance
08 January 2024The new discovery, unveiled on the BBC show Antiques Roadshow on Christmas Eve, comes for sale in Market Harborough on March 5.
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Faces of crime: mugshots reveal minor offenders
08 January 2024These days you have to pay for the privilege of spending the night at the former House of Correction in Folkingham, Lincolnshire.
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