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Cigarette card lights up Reading auction
30 August 2024A c.1912 cigarette card showing baseball pitcher Rube Marquard was given a ballpark estimate of £300-500 at Loddon Auctions.
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Macintyre Moorcroft Florian Ware 'peacock' vase shows off at West Sussex auction
29 August 2024The most sought after pieces of Moorcroft are signed by either William or Walter, and for William date from the earlier period of production from 1897-1912.
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Why two coastline views made contrasting prices at Canterbury auction
28 August 2024Two views of the same stretch of Cornish coastline by Arthur Hughes (1832-1915) both attracted interest but made contrasting sums at a recent sale at Canterbury Auction Galleries (25% buyer’s premium).
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Rare Vincennes porcelain flowers raise their heads at Selborne auction
27 August 2024A rare lot catalogued as ‘a pair of 18th century European porcelain flower pots probably Meissen or Sèvres… with porcelain flowers’ emerged at Hannam’s Fine Antiques & Collectables sale on August 20.
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Gujarat group generates Bucks bidding frenzy
27 August 2024For Amersham Auction Rooms, it was just another house clearance.
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Wreck of a Spanish galleon proved valuable for some
27 August 2024A rare James II and Queen Mary of Modena silver medal commemorating a Spanish shipwreck recovered in 1687 sold for four times the top estimate.
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Boxing clever for the Aubreys saleroom debut in Surrey
27 August 2024The inaugural Aubreys (25% buyer’s premium) live auction was held in the grounds of Loseley Park in Guildford.
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Original historical dresses spotted by eagle-eyed bidders
27 August 2024A pale blue and white striped garment offered at Martin & Pole’s (22% buyer’s premium) General Auction on August 7 was simply described as an “antique silk dress, appears in a photograph worn by Esther Palmer in around 1925”.
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Late 19th century Polar exploration programme breaks the ice at auction
23 August 2024A remarkable late Victorian lecture programme on early polar exploration by the Norwegian explorer Dr Fridtjof Nansen has been discovered at Chaucer Auctions in Folkestone.
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Boy on tortoise comes out of its shell at £18,000
19 August 2024A rare Royal Doulton prototype model of a ‘Boy on a Tortoise’ found in a modest house in Rickmansworth has sold for an impressive £18,000.
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Bidders find their marbles at auction in East Sussex
19 August 2024A lot catalogued as ‘Vintage toys, including marbles, rifle, Marklin spinners and butterflies, etc’ that appeared in a Burstow & Hewett auction estimated at £40-70 rolled out a surprise.
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How Wedgwood attempted to achieve the ‘apex of perfection’
19 August 2024Vases tell the story of an obsession to recreate a celebrated antiquity
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Italian artist Gnoli goes with the grain in early work
19 August 2024Made with oil and sand, this work by Italian artist Domenico Gnoli (1933-70) was taken to a multi-estimate £42,000 via a phone bid at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium).
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Treasures find in Bucks
19 August 2024As Hidden Treasures, Neil Payne organises monthly antique and vintage fairs in Berkhamsted and Haddenham in Hertfordshire, Benson in Oxfordshire and Marlow in Buckinghamshire.
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Wartime propaganda posters seek to persuade collectors to make a bid
19 August 2024'Freedom is in Peril Defend it with all your Might' was a British propaganda poster published by the Ministry of Information.
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Petersfield fair includes original artwork for illustrations from 1960s-70s novels
19 August 2024After celebrating 50 years of trading last year, the 'Petersfield Antiques Fair' makes a welcome return to the Festival Hall in the Hampshire town.
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Specialist antique arms event held at Kempton Park features 100-plus dealers in total
19 August 2024Some of the biggest hotshot dealers in classic arms will soon be loading up their cars and vans ready for the Classic Arms Fair at Kempton Park Racecourse on Sunday, September 1.
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Cleethorpes also so bracing as Skegness as LNER poster demonstrates
12 August 2024While the famous railway poster featuring the Jolly Fisherman (see ATG No 2653) promoted Skegness, the example shown here was intended to tempt holidaymaker to another Lincolnshire seaside resort.
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‘Compositions of real class’ strengthen their appeal
12 August 2024Leading several modestly pitched highlights at Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Surrey last month was this signed charcoal portrait of a girl by Welsh painter Augustus John (1878-1961).
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Bellmer’s descending nude hammered down at £95,000
12 August 2024German artist Hans Bellmer (1902-75) explored themes of desire, sexuality and the subconscious mind through his surrealistic sculptures, drawings and photographs.
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