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Surrey

Seat of power: Churchill maquette
11 November 2019Less familiar than some of the busts and maquettes of Winston Churchill by Oscar Nemon (1906-85) was this bronze resin maquette, below, offered at Catherine Southon’s (18% buyer’s premium) sale in Selsdon, Surrey.

Markets are top for the props
04 November 2019Special loading area created to cope with increased buying from film and TV companies

Plea to trade for help to find stolen colourist painting
29 October 2019A painting by British colourist Jeffrey Pratt (b.1940) was stolen from a private home in Surrey while the owners were away.

‘Brother in brush’ art gains global following
30 September 2019This 21 x 15in (54 x 39cm) watercolour, below, probably depicting the New Julfa quarter of Isfahan, is by the Armenian-Iranian painter Sumbat Kiureghian (1913- 99).

Two George II tables bring major sums in regional rooms
23 September 2019Two English furniture ‘discoveries’ excelled against modest hopes at auction in mid-September. Top-end London dealers bought both pieces.

Star Wars so wrong it’s right to buy
16 September 2019Boosted by the ‘wrong therefore rare’ factor – so important in the world of collectables – a 1977 British quad film poster for the first Star Wars film took top billing in a 250-lot specialist sale at Ewbank’s (24% buyer’s premium).

How monthly format can be marvellous
26 August 2019Surrey saleroom bucks the trend to hold dedicated picture auctions on regular basis

Pistol fires arms fair interest
24 June 2019This c.1800 flintlock pistol below by James Wilkinson, London, was used on packet ships to protect the General Post Office mail.

Thumb nails Hawkings at four figures
24 June 2019Bearing a thumbprint on the title-page – along with a note by a secretary, Susan Macey, witnessing it as genuine – a 1988 UK edition of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief of History of Time… was estimated at £200-400 but sold for £3000 in a May 30 sale.

Churchill goes into sale battle
17 June 2019Inscribed by Winston Churchill “…For Mrs Johnston in these great days”, a 1941 (second) edition of 'Into Battle', the first of a number of collections of his wartime speeches to be published, was part of a lot that sold for a higher than predicted £3000 in a Surrey sale.

Antiquities provide a new face for Dorking Halls
17 June 2019Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs is always pleased to welcome new faces to her antiques fairs at the Dorking Halls in Surrey.

Dealer tinkles the ivories at first Sandown fair
10 June 2019“It seemed that the world and his wife and most of Surrey came out for our inaugural Sunday Sandown fair, the complimentary Pimms flowed and the afternoon jazz set from Sabina Desir and Nick Adams, who trades at both our Tuesday markets and is nifty on the ivories as well, set the tone perfectly.”

Persian tile symbolic of ceramic revival takes £95,000 in John Nicholson’s sale
03 June 2019A large Persian lustre tile dating from c.1300 sold for £95,000 at John Nicholson’s in Haslemere last month.

Here come the Men in Black (and the Jedi and the wizards): Will Smith suit goes under the hammer at Ewbank’s movie prop auction
23 May 2019Bidders have the chance to get that alien-hunting time-travelling look next week as Will Smith’s suit from Men in Black 3 goes under the hammer.

Qing pen box takes £33,000 at Surrey sale
06 May 2019Estimated at £300-500, a finely decorated Qing famille rose pen box and cover was knocked down for £33,000 at a recent sale at John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium).

Around 70 tables take root at Tree of Ages Antiques Fair in Surrey
19 April 2019Launched two years ago at a Victorian mansion in Surrey by local online antiques dealer David Steel, the Tree of Ages Antiques Fair will be held on Sunday, May 12, at Robert Denholm House in Nutfield.

Under starter’s orders: Sunday event launch at Sandown Park Racecourse
19 April 2019Edward Cruttenden of Sunbury Antiques is launching a biannual Sunday antiques market at Sandown Park Racecourse to run alongside the bi-monthly Tuesday market he has held there since a year ago.

A slice of rural life shown in more than 500 photographs at Ewbank’s auction
15 April 2019When it comes to early or vintage photographs the interest is often centred around the social history of the material – the camera’s ability to document past events, be they special occasions or scenes of everyday life.

Wealth of East India Company evident at auction
11 March 2019The wealth of material brought back to Britain from the days of the East India Company was illustrated at John Nicholson’s (24% buyer’s premium) sale when four Indo-Portuguese or Anglo-Indian tortoiseshell and ivory works were consigned by different vendors.
All tables booked at Kempton specialist arms fair
11 March 2019'The Vintage and Classic Arms Fair' will run at Kempton Park Racecourse in Sunbury, Middlesex, on Sunday, March 24.

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- 08 Mar 2021 - 10:00 AM
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- 09 Mar 2021 - 10:00 AM
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- 09 Mar 2021 - 10:00 AM
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- 09 Mar 2021 - 10:00 AM
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