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Rare Irish silver porringer sold for five times estimate at Sworders’ auction
30 November 2016A rare and recently rediscovered Irish Commonwealth/Charles II silver porringer sold today for £25,000 – five times its estimate – at Sworders’ auction in Essex.
Museums offered chance to buy metal detectorist’s Bronze Age gold torc
29 November 2016A 3000-year old torc found in a field in east Cambridgeshire is one of the largest and heaviest to be unearthed in the UK.
TW Gaze plots expansion in Diss
23 November 2016Norfolk’s TW Gaze is expanding its saleroom after buying the freehold of the land.
Dealer helps Fitzwilliam track down trophy mirror in France
21 November 2016The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge hopes to raise the final £65,000 needed to buy a 17th century gilded mirror frame for its collection.
Queen Anne ‘Vigo’ coin sells for £225,000 at Boningtons
17 November 2016Boningtons have sold a rare Queen Anne 'Vigo' gold coin for £225,000. One of Britain's rarest coins, it was knocked down to a buyer in the room and set a house record for the Essex auctioneers.
Sworders to offer rediscovered silver rarity
10 November 2016Only a handful of pieces of Irish secular silver are known to survive from before the Restoration.
Striking gold – British coin struck from captured bullion appears in Essex auction
23 October 2016A rare example of a Queen Anne 'Vigo' five-guinea gold coin has emerged at Essex auctioneers Boningtons. It will be offered at their sale in Epping on November 16 with an estimate of £200,000-250,000.
Online vintage firm named after owner’s baby now opens a shop
23 September 2016Back in November 2015 Karl Rutterford declared himself ‘overwhelmed’ when he talked to me about the launch of his online vintage website – named after his then one-year-old son Ralph – with its emphasis on fairground art and branding.
Norfolk dealers take over longstanding local antiques and vintage fair
05 September 2016Dealer Philip Crosthwaite and his wife Claire have taken over the 18-year-old antiques and vintage fair in Hingham.
Clare antiques centre has respite from renovation plans
05 September 2016An antiques centre in Suffolk will remain open for up to two more years despite the owner of the building obtaining permission to convert the building into flats.
Keys to auction vast library from Morningthorpe Manor
26 August 2016A four-day sale of the contents of a Norfolk country house being conducted by Keys at their Aylsham rooms will include on September 8-9 the vast library formed by Ron Fiske at Morningthorpe Manor.
Sworders to offer ‘toys’ from Hugh Marsham Townshend collection
24 August 2016When in the middle of the century Suffolk collector Hugh Marsham Townshend (1878-1967) was amassing a collection of gold-mounted porcelain scent bottles and other trinkets, most were thought to be the products of the Chelsea porcelain works or a shadowy enterprise known as the ‘Girl in a Swing’ factory.
Ex-Bonhams duo launch independent auction firm to champion furniture sales
18 August 2016Two well-known former London auction specialists are launching a new enterprise selling English and European antique furniture.
Italian cabinets from Castle Howard head to Fitzwilliam Museum
12 August 2016An impressive and richly decorated pair of early 17th century gilt bronze and pietre dura inlaid Italian cabinets, which stood in Castle Howard, Yorkshire for two and a half centuries, have been saved for the Nation by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
The Man of La Mancha in Norfolk – first English edition of Don Quixote makes £25,000
09 August 2016One of a great many books removed from a couple of terraced houses in Norwich for sale by Keys of Aylsham was an 1612 first English edition of the first part only of Don Quixote.
Echoes of William Beckford as silver-gilt teaset triples estimate at Stansted sale
05 July 2016Among the works sold over estimate at today’s silver and jewellery auction at Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet was a rare silver-gilt three-piece teaset that tripled expectations when it was knocked down at £4100.
Boningtons to hold first regional sale of Churchill paintings
01 June 2016Boningtons Auctioneers will become the first regional auction house to offer original works by Winston Churchill at a sale in July.
20th century decorative arts fair heads to Norfolk's Voewood House
01 June 2016Bill Jones is a seasoned dealer in Art Deco and Arts & Crafts but a newcomer to the world of organising fairs, an arena into which he has thrown himself recently with gusto.
Ravilious watercolour makes £85,000 at Sworders
13 April 2016A watercolour by Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) drew serious bidding at Sworders this week, overtaking a £40,000-60,000 estimate before it was knocked down at £85,000.
Ravilious watercolour leads Sworders’ dedicated Modern British art auction
24 March 2016An Eric Ravilious (1903-42) watercolour has emerged at Sworders of Essex and will be among the star lots at their first dedicated Modern British Art sale next month.
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