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Satyrs and nymphs back at Billingshurst
29 April 2024The first auctions of the year at Summers Place Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Billingshurst – a live event on March 26 and a sealed bids sale on March 27 – included this pair of rare Portland stone groups of a nymph and satyr by Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885-1934).
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Davenport displays Irish touch
29 April 2024Irish marquetry furniture is a very distinctive form of decorative technique associated in particular with Killarney.
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Works sourced from artists' relatives add interest to West Sussex sale
29 April 2024Works consigned by family descendants of artists proved to be an intriguing aspect of the latest Old Master, British & European Paintings sale at Bellmans (25% buyer’s premium).
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Show celebrates five decades of sumptuous costume jewellery
22 April 2024An Oscar de la Renta orange flower vintage necklace offered for £385 is one of the highlights of an exhibition celebrating five decades of costume jewellery held at The Design Gallery.
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A feather in the cap of Eliot Hodgkin
22 April 2024Artist’s record broken by trademark highly detailed study of natural objects painted in tempera
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Plea to raise final £40,000 for Kelmscott Manor’s Samson tapestries
17 April 2024The Society of Antiquaries and the Kelmscott Campaign Group, led by antiques dealer Martin Levy, are hoping to raise the final £40,000 needed to conserve Kelmscott Manor’s Samson tapestries.
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Microscopes under bidder focus in UK and US auctions
15 April 2024This aristocratic survivor from the ‘brass and glass’ era of microscope making, a version of Powell & Lealand’s famous ‘No 1’ compound monocular and binocular microscope, is dated 1898.
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Steaming ahead but in safety thanks to lanterns
15 April 2024Although easily mistaken for railway or ship lamps, this pair of brass and iron lanterns were made for a road locomotive: the steam-driven traction engines that were some of the first powered vehicles to travel on Britain’s highways.
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Word on the street market scene
15 April 2024With a West Sussex event about to start, we take a look at the appeal of these outdoor opportunities
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Rock on with a jukebox purchase
15 April 2024Perfect to impress your friends and family – or annoy them – many vintage jukeboxes can be bought at auction for three or four figures depending on age, model and condition.
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Original phrenology models turn heads at auction
15 April 2024Ceramic phrenology heads have become ubiquitous following numerous reproductions. However, original 19th century models are much harder to come by.
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Botanical group features in Battle auction action
15 April 2024Twenty-six lots in the Science, Natural History and Curiosities sale at Burstow & Hewett (20% buyer’s premium) in Battle were previously owned by local botanist and entomologist George West.
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Bidding battle for Old Testament painting despite condition issues
08 April 2024A monumental painting of an Old Testament subject, which came to auction in a gloomy state, drew a remarkable bidding battle at a West Sussex sale.
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Clocks & watches: Fret design points to hand of famed maker
08 April 2024Castings on Charles I era lantern clock suggests the work of William Bowyer
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Xuande period suspected, £43,000 hammer resulted
08 April 2024This 8in (19cm) high vase may belong to a select group of Ming cloisonné enamel vases dating to the Xuande period (1426-35).
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Earnshaw and Mudge ensure lots of interest
08 April 2024Demonstrating the continued interest in pocket watches by most renowned English makers, two Georgian watches, one signed for Thomas Earnshaw and the other for Thomas Mudge, achieved strong results for regional salerooms on the same day in March.
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Bidders detect Grendey quality in pair of chairs
08 April 2024Giles Grendey (1696-1780) was a well known English cabinetmaker with a workshop in Clerkenwell, a member of the Joiners company rising to Master.
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Single-owner collections at the double in Newbury
01 April 2024Two prominent single-owner collections put together into a single Town & Country sale at Dreweatts generated some decent if selective bidding when it came to the pictures on offer.
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Personal touch on board: the ditty box
01 April 2024With space and privacy at a premium on board ships, sailors used ditty boxes to store their most treasured possessions plus personal necessities and everyday items such as sewing kit.
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Trough digs out another Spry auction success
01 April 2024This large rectangular earthenware trough, measuring 20in (21cm) across the handles, is part of the range of flower containers made by the Fulham Pottery for the society florist Constance Spry (1886-1960) from the mid-1930s to the 1950s.
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