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Lowry and reverend friend go to church together
27 August 2024A joint artwork by LS Lowry and lifelong friend Rev Geoffrey Bennett is among the 1750 lots offered in Mitchells’ three-day Antiques & Fine Art Sale from September 11-13.
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Mystery writer's musings on meteorites prove a big hit at auction
01 July 2024Hammer falls at 24 times the top estimate as Scandinavian buyer snaps up highly unusual collection
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Photo and badges reveal little known but vital work of the Second World War Lumberjills female forestry workers
28 June 2024While the work of British women on the home front in both world wars is now widely recognised in a wider sense, many of the specific units set up remain obscure and largely forgotten.
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Meteorites archive soars over estimate at Carlisle auction
17 June 2024Thomson Roddick Callan of Carlisle held a 270-lot sale of Antiquarian & Collectable Books and Related Items on June 6.
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Eye on an Object: 17th century portrait of Mother Louse from new venture
27 May 2024Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
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Cryptography book creates a Shakespearean drama
20 May 2024Cryptoryptomentyces et Cryptographiae has been described as ‘arguably the most complete tome on esoteric cryptography ever published’, an esoteric claim to fame in itself.
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Lakes picture book comes with links to Liverpool worthies
22 April 2024Daniel Daulby of Liverpool, a brewer and collector of prints and drawings, was also a compiler of a catalogue of Rembrandt etchings.
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Lost in non-translation: honour won by a blagger
01 April 2024On February 29 Fellows (25% buyer’s premium) of Birmingham held its inaugural Monies, Medals & Militaria sale.
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Dawgs gives visitors lots to chew over
25 March 2024Among the many recommendations on the Facebook page of Spotty Dawgs Antiques & Used Furniture is a particularly praiseworthy one in which the poster has said that he would pay an entrance fee to wander round this treasure trove all day.
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Copeland dinner service came from Lowther sale
18 December 2023There were many massive English country house sales in the 20th century but the largest by volume was the contents sale at Lowther Castle during April, May and June 1947.
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Strong Winifred Nicholson result outside London
06 November 2023A high price for a Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) picture sold outside the main London rooms came recently in Cumbria.
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Peter Orr silver trophy races away to 10 times low estimate
23 October 2023This colonial-era Indian silver horse racing trophy is marked for Peter Orr and Sons of Madras.
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Doulton jug does its Nelson duty
28 August 2023The salt-glazed portrait jug of Nelson by Doulton & Watts of Lambeth is considered the first character jug made by Doulton
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Eurich’s mystery girl makes notable price
28 August 2023The artist Richard Ernst Eurich (1903-92) is rather hard to categorise.
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Gallantry medal was awarded to policeman who tackled a pair of murderers
07 August 2023A Queen’s Gallantry Medal in its case of issue awarded to a police constable who helped to catch two violent escaped prisoners sold for £2400 at auction.
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Your photo calling card: the carte de visite craze
24 July 2023Just as stereoscope images became a Victorian collecting craze, another notable photographic fad of the era was the carte de visite
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Tall tales from Patagonia
26 June 2023A rare work of 1767 called A Journal of a Voyage Round the World in His Majesty’s Ship The Dolphin… was offered by Thomson Roddick (20% buyer’s premium) in Carlisle.
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One of Fell’s final works comes to auction
05 June 2023A drawing by Sheila Fell (1931-79) offered in Cockermouth showed how strong demand can emerge even for a simple sketch.
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Cumbrian house packed full of Mouseman
22 May 2023The 33 pieces of ‘Mouseman’ furniture on offer at Carlisle auction house Thomson Roddick (20% buyer’s premium) all came from a Cumbrian Georgian country house where they had been since at least before 1950.
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Bookplate boosts Sackville-West debut novel result
08 May 2023The best-selling lot in a recent Carlisle auction was a 1919, Collins first of Heritage, the debut novel of Vita Sackville-West, who at that time was better known for her poetry.
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