East Midlands

The 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.

It 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).

An Arctic fox fur owned and worn by a 1930s movie star dubbed Britain’s answer to Ginger Rogers turned heads at a Derby saleroom.

The small town of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire is the perfect pitstop for antiques and vintage buyers, particularly the trade.

With 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.

An ‘18th century’ bible turned out to be far more valuable as a first issue King James “He” version

A 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.

Spotlight on a couple of shop donations that both ended up making £20,000 hammer prices

A 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’.

The 1970 World Cup was the breakthrough year for Panini.

Fairs may be hit by snow and other weather hazards but stallholders and intrepid buyers try to carry on regardless.

The new discovery, unveiled on the BBC show Antiques Roadshow on Christmas Eve, comes for sale in Market Harborough on March 5.

These days you have to pay for the privilege of spending the night at the former House of Correction in Folkingham, Lincolnshire.

In the early years of the HN collection in the 1920s several companies commissioned Doulton figures to advertise their products.

Huge Lincolnshire business is among the firms that are confident for the future after a buzzing year

The repurposing of buildings for use as antiques centres and sometimes fairs has seen a revitalisation of historic buidings.

Dealer Daniel Hadden is hoping for an early Christmas present with the sale of two tree decorations that once belonged to Queen Victoria.

Like many English joiners of the period, not a great deal is known about the private life of Gerrit Jensen.