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The £36,000 tale of Maud Lewis and her $10 oils
24 May 2021A group of naive oils found boxed up during a house move drew strong interest at Hanson Holloway’s Ross (25% buyer’s premium), making a combined £36,000.
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Funding call for Cotswold retreat of Arts and Crafts pioneer William Morris
20 May 2021A funding call for the restoration of the Cotswold retreat of William Morris (1834-96) is underway and the trade have already helped the campaign.
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Fairs updates in Oxfordshire and Bath
17 May 2021Joy O’Meara of Jay Fairs is disappointed but sanguine about the news that the parish hall in the Oxfordshire village of Benson will close for refurbishment from June to October, thus causing her to cancel her monthly antique and vintage fairs at the venue.
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Henley event causes ripples of excitement
10 May 2021Organiser of event by the Thames is buoyed up by record number of stands confirmed
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Heroic price at 10 times top estimate
08 March 2021Given a modest estimate of £100-150 in a January 3 sale at Oxfordshire auction house Jones & Jacob (18% buyer’s premium), an edition of Hero & Leander published in 1949 by Christopher Sandford sold instead at £1500.
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Rare Ernest Townsend still life blooms at auction
01 March 2021A painting by Derby artist Ernest Townsend (1880-1944) was among the works that caused something of a surprise at auction early this year.
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Arty eccentricity turns heads at Dreweatt's Aynhoe Park sale
22 February 2021James Perkins, the co-founder of rave music promoter Fantazia, kept an eclectic collection of Contemporary art at Aynhoe Park in Oxfordshire.
Holt has high hopes for May or June
08 February 2021Deco dealer Marcus Potts usually runs his Antiques @The Holt antiques fairs at the Holt Hotel, Steeple Aston in Oxfordshire on a biannual spring/autumn basis.
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Rare prints by Iraqi artist emerge in UK
04 January 2021As with other sectors of the art and antiques market, Contemporary art can certainly produce dramatic bidding battles for under-valued material at auction.
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Fair includes a black tie trade ball
14 December 2020Dealer Gary Wallis is looking forward to next year and the first of his biannual Henley Decor Fairs that will run for five days instead of two.
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Lloyd bowl and Beddall service
07 December 2020Small Britannia standard silver bowls are the signature pieces the Scottish silversmith Michael Lloyd (c.1950).
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Oxfordshire dealership sources Louis Vuitton trunk with the famous canvas pattern
19 October 2020Oxfordshire dealership 3Details offers this original Louis Vuitton trunk with its instantly recognisable monogrammed canvas for £22,500.
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Archangel plaque at Swan Fine Art could be much older than catalogued
07 September 2020It was catalogued as 18th or 19th century but this 2½ x 3½in (6 x 8.5cm) ivory plaque was more probably a product of medieval Christendom.
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Hanson takes over assets of insolvent Charles Ross Auctioneers and Holloway’s
31 August 2020Derbyshire auctioneer Charles Hanson has purchased the assets of two struggling UK salerooms: Charles Ross Auctioneers in Woburn and Holloway’s in Banbury.
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17th century cabinet blending East and West style attracts interest in Henley auction
31 August 2020This 17th century teak, ebony and ivory standing cabinet or contador is a type associated with the Indo-Portuguese settlement in Goa.
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Oxfordshire fair organiser hails camaraderie as all traders sign up for reorganised event
17 August 2020Gary Wallis, organiser of the 'Henley Decor Fair', is delighted that all the exhibitors who booked for the original May/June event at Greenlands Park beside the Thames are on board for the reorganised dates following its cancellation due to the pandemic.
Stallholders raring to go at Jay fair
03 August 2020Jay Fairs aka Joy O’Meara, who launched her fairs in Oxfordshire in the 1980s with her sister Jill Napper, is excited about the return after a four-month absence of her popular monthly antiques fair at the parish hall in Benson, near Oxford, on Sunday, August 16.
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Ventriloquist’s doll highly spoken of in Tetsworth auction
18 May 2020The sale held by Swan Fine Art (20% buyer’s premium) in Tetsworth on May 6 included a fine-quality ventriloquist’s doll, c.1930.
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Victorian travel wardrobe draws interest as it reappears at auction
06 April 2020This deluxe Victorian travel accessory is a ‘campaign wardrobe’ made by Robinson & Sons of Ilkley, Yorkshire.
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5 Questions: Susanne Schulz-Falster
23 March 2020Susanne Schulz-Falster deals in rare books from Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
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