Surrey

The growth in toys and collectables is related to the age of buyers and the items they remember from their own childhood, auction houses say.

Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events increased her tally of antique and vintage street markets in southern England earlier this year, launching in Kingston and Cranleigh, both in Surrey.

The early English Surrealist Tristram Hillier (1905-83) was a regular visitor to Spain and Portugal.

Jane Alexander, organiser of the Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs, is ruminative but positive about her monthly events.

An elaborate Victorian meerschaum pipe stood out at a recent Surrey sale.

An ex-fashion buyer book lover turned bookbinder is one of the stallholders at Home and Vintage Living, organised by Jules Langley.

Exhibitors and visitors alike were enthusiastic about the first Epsom Antiques Fair run under organiser David Steel of Tree of Ages.

Luxury fashion discovered in a charity shop is heading to upmarket London retailer Fortnum & Mason.

Apocrypha sold at auction was his personal copy and then inscribed by descendants who later owned it

Denis Pellerin, co-curator of the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy (BMAS) and co-curator of the upcoming Watts Gallery exhibition, tells ATG about the collection

Once thought to have been produced in the Black Forest region of Germany, chess sets like the one offered at Ewbank’s (30% buyer’s premium) on June 23, used to be called Luther sets.

An early career in London led Chris Ewbank, who died on June 25 aged 78, to the auction business at the Cubitt & West salerooms in Guildford – a few miles west of his childhood home in Mayfield, Sussex, where his father was an estate agent-cum-auctioneer.

Buffy Parker is celebrating 50 years in the art market.

Auctioneer Chris Ewbank, who launched the Ewbank’s saleroom in Send, Surrey, has died.

Epsom Antique Fair has a new owner.

Enjoying the great outdoors was a simple priority for the attendees of the Arthur Swallow Loseley Park Decorative Home & Salvage Show in Surrey, running from May 19-21.

Continuity takes ‘difficult decision’ to no longer run the Surrey event but new organiser has taken over

One of the most talked about pictures sold at auction recently was a portrait by an almost unheard of artist that emerged in Surrey.

This mahogany 12-drawer cabinet of minerals, rocks and fossils carries the printed trade label reading Arranged and Sold by J Tennant, Mineralogist by Appointment to Her Majesty, 149 Strand London.

More than 50 lots featuring the illustrative work of Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) were offered in the extensive book section of a March 24 auction.