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Ecclesiastical Mouseman commissions emerge at Northumberland sale
07 March 2022Ecclesiastical commissions are integral to the Mouseman story – it was the friendship between Father Paul Neville and Robert Thompson that led to the work at Ampleforth College – but in commercial terms these can be relatively difficult pieces.
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‘Bing Brake’ brings a big result on Teesside
07 March 2022The latest Tinplate & Specialist Toy sale at Vectis (20.83% buyer’s premium inc VAT) in Stockton-on-Tees included this large-scale tinplate clockwork vintage car by the Gebruder Bing factory of Nuremberg.
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Banksy stable sets house record in Newcastle
31 January 2022This small wood and fibre glass sculpture by Banksy (b.1974) sold for £800,000 last week – a house record for Anderson & Garland.
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Variations that are key to Star Wars figure value
31 January 2022As in so many collecting fields, slight variations can be key when it comes to pricing of TV generation toys.
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Banksy goes on spraycation to a model village
17 January 2022This small wood and fibre glass sculpture by Banksy (b.1974) formed part of the street artist’s 'Great British Spraycation' series that emerged at British seaside destinations over the summer.
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Telling the time in Newcastle and Edinburgh
10 January 2022The December 1-2 Country House & Fine Interiors sale at Anderson & Garland (22% buyer’s premium) in Newcastle included a late 17th century walnut longcase clock by local maker William Prevost.
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Clothing worn on Everest attempt
03 January 2022This group of clothing offered at Railtons (20% buyer’s premium) in Wooler, Northumberland, on December 3, was used by geologist and explorer Lawrence Wager (1904-65) during the 1933 Everest expedition.
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Stan Anderson’s unusual hat-trick
08 November 2021Stan Anderson (1934-2018) was a north-eastern football stalwart playing as captain for a hat-trick of local clubs.
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Pasmore ‘thank you’ in art form
04 October 2021This work by Victor Pasmore (1908-98) was given by the artist to Gordon Ryder, one half of the Newcastle architectural practice of Ryder and Yates.
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Table and chest impress on Tyneside
04 October 2021Although not catalogued as such, this occasional table offered at auction is made to a well-known Aesthetic movement design by EW Godwin.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie’s pre-Culloden meal
06 September 2021On April 14, 1746, two days before the battle that would seal his fate, Charles Edward Stuart held a lavish meal at Culloden House, the highland estate owned by Hanoverian loyalist Duncan Forbes (1685-1747) that had recently been commandeered by Jacobite forces.
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Travel to Stonehenge via Skye
06 September 2021Many of the lots in a June 16 sale of books, maps and pictures held by Thomson Roddick (18% buyer’s premium) in Carlisle came from the collections of the late Dr George Kozikowski of Skye, a microbiologist, archaeologist and antiquarian of Polish descent.
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Major Matchbox collection strikes a chord
16 August 2021What was billed as ‘the finest Matchbox collection to be auctioned in recent years’ was offered at Vectis (20% buyer’s premium) in the spring.
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Right royal welcome for princess
12 July 2021View of George III’s new wife’s journey shows departure instead of the usual arrival.
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Dolls’ house furniture is sitting comfortably
25 January 2021The collecting market for dolls’ house furniture has been enjoying a boom period if recent prices have been anything to go by.
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Glassmaker turns his hand to silver
04 January 2021The name William Beilby (1740-1819) is typically associated with the best of English glass and particularly the enamelling workshop operated from Amen Corner in Newcastle in the 1760s-70s.
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Phwoarrrr - first ever Viz comic comes up for sale
07 November 2020Fat Sod, Skinhead, Colin the Amiable Crocodile and Victor Pratt the Stupid Twat were introduced to the public in the form of a comic offered in a Newcastle pub in December 1979.
ATG letter: Good news if you want to take a drive to Barnard Castle
12 October 2020MADAM – With visitor numbers growing steadily, above expectations despite the pandemic, and a successful reopening under its belt, The Bowes Museum is now looking for new trustees to help reshape it, to ensure its continued success.
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‘Dirty Dozen’ Grana sets new £18,000 high
12 October 2020A Grana Ministry of Defence wristwatch – the hardest to find of the so-called ‘Dirty Dozen’ watches made by 12 Swiss manufacturers for the British army– sold for £18,000 at Thomas Miller in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Politicians on the saleroom menu
24 August 2020Estimated at £100-200 but sold for £2800 at Thomas Watson (25% buyer’s premium) in Darlington on August was a set of four Worcester parian menu holders.
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