South-west England

Account of the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb comes as rare set with dust jackets intact

Alexa Robins, organiser of AFC Fairs’ big antiques and vintage event at the Royal Cornwall Showground, is very excited by news of a new fair she’s been asked to put on.

The Cotswolds Vintage Fairs has been run annually with various curators in August for 13 years at the village hall at Toddington, near Broadway.

In recent times the work of newspaper cartoonists has been reassessed with a nod to its artistic, technical and historical merit.

Pictures on sale at the burgeoning event depict warm and more usual seasonal days

Do embroidery and cut-paper pictures count as art? Bidders certainly appreciate their expertise

A number of strong sums for Frederick Gore’s (1913-2009) richly coloured views of Mallorca and the French countryside have been recorded since his auction record was smashed two years ago.

Former kennels at the site of AS Fairs’ new three-day event in Gloucestershire now house a dealership

More than 10,000 books and artworks from the library of the late Christopher Foyle are coming to auction in Cirencester.

There was a time when historic racing pictures by a top name might have been priced close to six figures.

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.

This form of drinking vessel, with handles and lobed edges to the top of the bowl, would have been passed around the table.

A Cornish saleroom offered over 300 enamel signs, advertising memorabilia, pump globes, vehicle mascots and collectables from a single-owner collection.

Previously unrecorded view by the Italian scenic painter now joins six others of Naples already known

In the oeuvre of ‘primitive’ painter Bryan Pearce (1929-2006), still-lifes are significantly rarer than his marine and harbour scenes.

This is one of the very first batch of standard barographs produced by Richard Frères of Paris.

Classic examples of distinctive porcelain take four-figure sums in Gloucestershire

Furniture attributable to Gillows demonstrates demand for desirable pieces

Interest in wireless telegraphy, that was piqued when Guglielmo Marconi successfully sent a message from Poldhu, Cornwall to St John’s, Newfoundland in 1910, prompted many amateurs to build and develop their own sets based on the ‘Coherer’ principle for sending and receiving Morse code.

The best-known type of Maori jewellery is the pounamu (greenstone) hei tiki pendants, the figural carvings representing ‘the first man’ that were typically worn by women.