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New date for next Newark Antiques and Collectors Market
17 November 2020Event organiser IACF has scheduled new dates for the next Newark Antiques and Collectors Market.
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Pick of the week: Window into 18th century gentry life
16 November 2020An item of local interest to bidders at Bamfords in Derby was this 18th century account book for Radbourne Hall, the seat of the Chandos-Pole family.
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Mudge and Dutton cased pocket watch ticks boxes at Golding Young & Mawer
16 November 2020A George III gold pair cased pocket watch gave a strong start to the Golding Young & Mawer (20% buyer’s premium) November 4 sale (brought forward a day to avoid lockdown restrictions).
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Sticky situation is resolved
09 November 2020An 1859 first of Darwin’s seminal work shrugs off condition issues to be a best-seller
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Condition counts for sugar box
02 November 2020In family ownership for several generations, this 27oz Charles II sugar box was described by Nottingham auction house Mellors & Kirk (24% buyer’s premium) as “in an exceptional state of preservation, with hardly any sign of wear and no damage or repair worthy of note”.
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Antiques centre owner warns others of thieves’ technique after sky light break-in
21 October 2020The owner of an antiques centre has warned others to be vigilant and take extra precautions after being broken into via a sky light.
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Gramophone bought by the Rothschild family for Waddesdon Manor comes to auction
14 October 2020A rare gramophone believed to have been bought by James de Rothschild (1878-1957) of the Rothschild banking dynasty, for the family home of Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, is coming to auction next week.
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Pick of the week: Slide rule measures up at £11,000
05 October 2020The invention of the gauger’s slide rule in the 1680s is generally credited to one Thomas Everard of Southampton.
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Watch auctioneer Charles Hanson selling the ‘ultimate lockdown find’ found in a workman’s garage
24 September 2020An 18th century Beijing-enamel wine pot and cover described as the ‘ultimate lockdown find’ has sold for £390,000 at auction in Derbyshire.
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Pick of the week: The Stobwasser box that was up to snuff
21 September 2020Economic stimulus packages are not a new phenomenon. Georg Siegmund Stobwasser (1717-76) was among the many craftsmen attracted to the Brunswick by the special privileges granted them in the city by Duke Karl I (1713-80) in the wake of the Seven Years’ War.
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Accessibility is central to oak dealer's relocation
07 September 2020Furniture dealership Early Oak has moved from Burford in the Cotswolds to a more central location for all its UK buyers in Harringworth, near Northamptonshire’s border with Rutland.
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The power of positive thinking
07 September 2020Focus on how one antiques centre survived and now thrives by being prepared to adapt
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Classy canes draw interest in regional sales
31 August 2020This sailor’s walking cane below displays many elements of the scrimshander’s art: a whalebone shaft carved with spiral fluting, collars inlaid with shell from the hawksbill turtle and a handle carved as a dove from the tooth of a sperm whale.
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Sphinx flies in black glass
24 August 2020The best-known press-moulded models made by John Derbyshire at the Regent Road Flint Glassworks in Salford are the series of animal and figural paperweights made in frosted, flint and coloured glass.
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Batavian box gives buyer something to chew on
24 August 2020The centuries-old Indonesian habit of chewing betel nut, the fruit of the reach palm, was quickly adopted by settlers from the Dutch East India Company who appreciated both its psychoactive properties and its importance as a local social ritual.
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Dealers sell Egyptian statue from Thomas Cook collection to City of Leicester for £150,000
17 August 2020An ancient Egyptian granite statue has been sold to the City of Leicester from the collection of travel business Thomas Cook in a deal negotiated by London dealers Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch.
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Happy buyer gets the cream of the crop
17 August 2020Nestlé, today a Swiss multinational corporation, was a much smaller company when this rare lithographed showcard was made.
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Necklace with Hollywood stardust features in our pick of five auction highlights this week
14 August 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a gold, diamond and pearl necklace owned by the 1930s American film actress Mildred Shay.
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Two handy methods to keep score the low-tech way
10 August 2020Keeping score in the earliest days of the Football League was not as easy as checking the internet.
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Two collections of football programmes at auction surge over estimates
10 August 2020While Manchester United and early FA Cup match programmes often make the big money at auction, a group on offer at a West Sussex saleroom showed that far less famous names can also make the running.
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