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Is this the world’s smallest penknife?
30 August 2023This tiny opening pocketknife is about the size of a 1p coin.
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Pick of the week: Lessons pointed the poor towards job skills
28 August 2023Well known for pottery, Sally Tuffin (b.1938) is also renowned for pioneering 1960s fashion as part of the Foale and Tuffin firm.
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Classic goblet takes £4000
28 August 2023Included in Mellors & Kirk’s (24% buyer’s premium) July 18-20 sale in Nottingham was this classic baluster goblet dated to the 18th century.
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Wine bottle pays tribute to a Wedgwood
28 August 2023An 18th century wine bottle honouring Thomas Wedgwood, a key figure in the history of the Wedgwood factory, comes for sale in Derbyshire this autumn.
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Pals prepare for a new brocante in Lincolnshire
21 August 2023Two dealer friends from Rutland who met at a vintage fair where they were both exhibiting are now launching their first event in Lincolnshire.
Car park becomes temporary fair venue in Northampton
07 August 2023Northampton’s Monday to Saturday market has had to resort to a temporary location in the Commercial Street car park during the £8.5m renovation of the town’s historic market square.
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Stags Head takes over Northamptonshire fair
24 July 2023Stags Head Events is taking over the biannual antiques and vintage fair at Lamport Hall near Northampton organised for about 15 years by Antiques2Go.
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It must be one of the Ladds
10 July 2023This lacquered brass and mahogany Hawksbee-type double valve vacuum pump is signed to the recessed silvered plate Ladd, Penton Place, Walworth.
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Pick of the week: Persian mirror emerges at Lincolnshire auction
26 June 2023A 14th or 15th century Persian mirror that emerged at auction in Lincolnshire took a five-figure sum.
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Biscuit tins provide far more than crumbs of comfort
26 June 2023Novelty biscuit tin toys delivered a number of tasty sale successes for South Yorkshire auction house BBR (15% buyer’s premium).
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Can you use PrayPal?
26 June 2023A new antiques centre has opened in a former Baptist chapel in Newark.
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New auction premises in Derbyshire and Gloucestershire and new hires - a round-up of the latest art and antiques moves
20 June 2023Harper Field and Bamfords’ new salerooms are among the recent updates.
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Nottingham's Lady Bay Vintage fair to open with 40 dealers
19 June 2023Forty dealers spread across four venues in Nottingham a few minutes walk from each other is the enticing prospect for Mid-century buyers.
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Bigger and better at Bamfords' new Derby saleroom
19 June 2023Bamfords celebrated its move into its new premises in Spondon, Derbyshire, earlier this month with a party ahead of a busy week of auctions.
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Take a peak at Buxton
08 May 2023The picturesque spa town of Buxton in the Peak District will once again host its long-running annual fair.
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Live it up in mock Tudor
01 May 2023A doublet and hose worn by the Earl of Abergavenny at the coronation of George IV in 1821 came to auction in Nottinghamshire.
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Rain doesn't stop trade at latest Lincoln Showground antiques fair
10 April 2023Barry Fletcher of the Carpet Merchant is an Arthur Swallow regular, making the journey over from Belgium.
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Lots of love from the future king
10 April 2023Letter sent from a very young Charles to his grandma with doodles and kisses emerges at auction
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Apology from Beatle Harrison to disappointed schoolgirl fan
27 March 2023A letter of apology written by George Harrison after two autograph-hunting schoolgirls got a distinctly unfriendly reception when they turned up on the doorstep of his home took £6100 at auction.
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Poster from era with Sex Pistols on the cusp of success
27 March 2023On November 26, 1976, the Sex Pistols released their first single, Anarchy in the UK.
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