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Art dealer Bill Clark marks 20 years with Northern art
16 September 2019Marking 20 years in business, Clark Art is holding a show featuring works by some of the key artists it has championed across two decades.
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Novelty poop deck pops up
09 September 2019Benefiting from the continuing fashion for late 19th century novelty mantel clocks, a gilt-brass and steel example by Guilmet made the running at Peter Wilson (22% buyer’s premium) of Nantwich.
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Worcestershire couple make room for Meissen
02 September 2019A collection of Meissen figures, many by Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706-75) and his assistants, met keen interest at Adam Partridge’s (20% buyer’s premium) auction.
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Congleton antiques centre stays open despite deluge
19 August 2019The floods which swept north-west England at the end of July involved major downpours hitting Congleton in Cheshire. This included Victoria Mill Antiques and Collectors’ Centre on the edge of town, which stayed open despite flood damage, as this Twitter picture below shows.
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Fine home for Fairfield centre
12 August 2019A fine Victorian building in the town of Cockermouth in the Lake District which was built in 1868 for the founder of Mitchell’s Auctions – whose saleroom is still in the town – is now home to the Fairfield House Antiques Centre.
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Wright Marshall’s fine art auction business to close as no buyer found
08 August 2019The fine art division of auction house Wright Marshall will cease to operate after August 9 (tomorrow) after the administrators of the Knutsford firm were not able to secure a buyer.
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Pick of the week: Pocketwatch with Oliver Cromwell connection sells in Cumbria
05 August 2019Did a watch offered for sale in Carlisle at the end of July once belong to Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)? Two centuries of provenance suggest it did.
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Robert Burns on song
05 August 2019Shown below is a spread from a 120pp manuscript collection of Scottish songs with accompanying musical notation, on paper watermarked 1799, that sold at £600 in a Thomson Roddick (17.5% buyer’s premium) sale.
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‘Spanish Phillip’ comes home to Scotland with pooch picture
22 July 2019Edinburgh gallery Fettes Fine Art offers a painting by Scottish artist John Phillip at its local Galloway Fair this week.
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Giant boots go under the hammer in Cumbrian auction 12 years after Antiques Roadshow appearance
11 July 2019Two giant right boots, made as a marketing gimmick to advertise a Lancashire shoe shop, will be offered at 1818 Auctioneers next month.
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Adam Partridge in talks to buy Wright Marshall fine art
08 July 2019Cheshire auctioneer Adam Partridge is in talks with the administrator of Wright Marshall Fine Art Auctioneers to buy its Knutsford fine art business.
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Publicity-shy artist Percy Kelly now on a high
01 July 2019Percy Kelly (1918-93) was so averse to the limelight that only a few of his paintings were ever shown publicly during his life. But a major retrospective in 2015 and a birth centenary last year has helped raise the Cumbrian artist’s profile – and his prices.
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Pitman painter Norman Cornish on the rise
01 July 2019Miners heading to work in the early morning with lit lamps, denizens of northern pubs with flat caps and pipes, women pushing prams or hanging up the washing: these figures populate the works of Norman Cornish (1919-2014), the ‘pitman painter’.
Splash out to buy Lakeland vintage
01 July 2019Diane Evans-Taylor is a vintage dealer and runs an upholstery business in the Cumbrian town of Ulverston.
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Buyer sought for auction house Wright Marshall
27 June 2019The parent company of Wright Marshall Fine Art Auctioneers is in administration and a search for a new owner is under way.
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Swallow gives it some Welly
24 June 2019Organiser says expectations are high for new showground fair starting at end of the month.
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Howard comfortably unearthed
24 June 2019Featuring in the same two-day auction as a £7000 cache of Beatrix Potter ephemera found in a Cumbrian Victorian villa which had made national headlines, this less-heralded sofa impressed at 1818 Auctioneers (17.5% buyer’s premium).
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Signed by maker and first owner – dealer offers rare Cumbrian clock
10 June 2019As the vast majority of Georgian clockmakers signed their work, most regional brass-dial longcase clocks have a great sense of place.
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In rust we trust for Marklin make
27 May 2019Rusty, dusty and damaged, but bearing the magic of Marklin, a pre-First World War toy train emerged from the garage at a local house clearance. It starred in a collectors sale at the Cumbrian saleroom of 1818 Auctioneers (20% buyer’s premium inc VAT).
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David Bowie’s rejected debut album tracks sell for double estimate figure at Merseyside auction
24 May 2019Tracks recorded by David Bowie for his 1967 debut album that were later rejected have been sold at auction for a hammer price of £16,000.
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