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'New prints' refresh Japanese subjects
17 February 2020Shin-hanga, meaning ‘new prints’, emerged in Japan during the early 20th century. Aimed at Western tastes, the artistic movement combined the traditional colourful woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e with nostalgic and romanticised Japanese subjects.
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Business as usual despite fire at Guildford auction house
04 February 2020Wellers of Guildford suffered a fire at its premises but has continued to operate its auction schedule despite disruption to phone lines.
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Catherine Southon auction to offer late-16th century gaming board found in bombed-out London
03 February 2020“As soon as the vendor pulled the board from her bag, I recognised something of serious interest.”
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At Kempton this week: six objects to tempt interior decorators from £20 to four figures
30 January 2020Kempton isn’t just the preserve of early-rising antique dealers (though some, like BBC Antiques Roadshow expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan, arrive only after 10am).
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Artist Kit Williams' early clues on how to decipher the Masquerade
20 January 2020The English artist, illustrator and author Christopher ‘Kit’ Williams (b.1946) is best known for the book 'Masquerade', the pictorial storybook which contained clues to the location of an 18ct gold jewelled hare buried somewhere in the British countryside. It created quite a sensation in 1979.
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Youghal basting spoon draws interest in Salisbury
13 January 2020Alongside pieces made in Kinsale, Galway and Waterford, silver from the small County Cork town of Youghal is among the scarcest of all Irish provincial silver. Only a handful of pieces survive that carry the punning town mark of a yawl.
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Ancient glass reflects modern appeal
16 December 2019The sale at John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Haslemere on October 24 included a substantial collection of ancient (or ancient style) coloured glassware: more than 60 pieces sold across half a dozen group lots.
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Classic coach scene by James Pollard
02 December 2019This classic mail coach scene by the 19th century painter James Pollard (1792-1867) doubled pre-sale hopes in a picture auction at Surrey saleroom John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium).
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Tree of Ages' roots now laid down in Surrey
25 November 2019Launched two years ago at a Victorian mansion at Nutley in Surrey by local antiques dealer David Steel, the 25-dealer 'Tree of Ages Antiques Fair' runs four times a year at Robert Denholm House.
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Thames boat club calls on trade to help find boathouse clock
21 November 2019The memorial clock on the outside of the boathouse of the Dittons Skiff and Punting Club in Thames Ditton has been stolen and members have appealed to the antiques trade to help find it.
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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.
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Markets are top for the props
04 November 2019Special loading area created to cope with increased buying from film and TV companies
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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.
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‘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).
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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.
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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).
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How monthly format can be marvellous
26 August 2019Surrey saleroom bucks the trend to hold dedicated picture auctions on regular basis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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