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Bristol

Hoffman squares it for Wiener Werkstätte design
14 November 2022A silver sale at East Bristol Auctions (19% buyer’s premium) included this Wiener Werkstätte twin section bon bon dish with two glass inserts to a design by Josef Hoffmann.

‘Well, I think we’re just out of Waldorfs’
19 September 2022This camera script produced for the ‘Waldorf Salad’ episode from the second series of Fawlty Towers was offered by East Bristol Auctions (19% buyer’s premium) in a timed online sale that ended on August 23,

Call to arms: fairs in Bristol and Birmingham
29 August 2022Organised by Tricorn Fairs, the biannual Bristol Fine Antique Arms Fair returns on Sunday, September 11, at a new venue: the Aztec West Hotel and Spa.

Gang of three and four-figure results
06 June 2022The Our Gang range of Second World War ‘types’ were designed for the Bovey Pottery Company by architect Fenton Wyness (1903-74) and modelled by artist Gwynneth Holt (1909-95). Both were based in Aberdeen in the 1940s.

East Bristol targets a score of 10 out of 10
16 May 2022An auction house in Bristol is celebrating its 10th anniversary in business by holding 10 sales in as many days.

Fry note produces a choc shock result for 1549 Bible
18 April 2022As this illustration of the title-page shows, a 1549 London edition of the Bible offered in a timed online sale ending on March 13 held by East Bristol Auctions (19% buyer’s premium) had its shortcomings where condition was concerned.

Variations that are key to Star Wars figure value
31 January 2022As in so many collecting fields, slight variations can be key when it comes to pricing of TV generation toys.

Banksy prints bowl up at auction
20 December 2021Two Banksy prints donated to charity set high prices for their respective individual editions at a Bristol auction.

Dancing peasants entrance bidders
11 October 2021Sourced from a private property south of Bristol, this street scene with peasant women engaged in a trance-like dance sold at a local auction house.

Pocket size Pippa Dolls size up nicely at auction
16 August 2021By the 1980s toy action figures were shrinking in size from GI Joe and Action Man proportions to the likes of Action Force and Star Wars.

Darth Vader and Green Cross Code Man - Dave Prowse collection comes to auction
21 April 2021The collection of a giant of cinema is coming up at East Bristol Auctions: Dave Prowse (1935-2020), who played Darth Vader in Star Wars.

Fountain pens: How the East and West signed up to a lucrative deal
08 February 2021The 1920s deal between Ryosuke Namiki and Alfred Dunhill to make luxury pens for the Western market created some of the most collectable fountain pens.

‘From a royal palace’ to family bathroom in Hull house
21 December 2020Bristol auction house sells mirror with an intriguing link to Marie Antoinette

Ingenious, but the Germans smelt a rat
14 December 2020Always popular at auction, always great to write about – so no excuses needed for featuring a selection of the weird and wonderful Second World War spy and sabotage gadgets and ingenious escape devices which do appear often in sales.

Bristol auction includes a lot of local interest
16 November 2020Offered as part of a sale held in Bristol were two copies of 'The Merchants Avizo….', a work by a local man, John Browne.

Durbar parades across a shop window
09 November 2020A collection of more than 580 figures representing participants in the 1903 Delhi Durbar comprises the bulk of this month’s exhibition at Bristol jeweller Grey-Harris & Co.

Mosaic fragments ‘from a Roman villa’ sell in Bristol
14 September 2020Consigned from a private deceased estate, a group of decorative mosaic floor tile fragments took a multi-estimate £2200 at Clevedon Salerooms (22% buyer’s premium) in Bristol.

'Gandhi' spectacles take £260,000 at Bristol auction
21 August 2020A pair of spectacles, believed to have once belonged to Gandhi, were hammered down at £260,000 in Bristol (plus 21.6% buyer's premium inc VAT).

Samplers thread their way from orphanage to auction
17 August 2020Estimated at just £30-50, a late 19th century sampler sold via thesaleroom.com for £1850 at Wotton Auction Rooms (18% buyer’s premium) in Gloucestershire. A clue to the appeal is the inscription 'M Mountain, 5 Orphan House, Ashley Down, Bristol, 1879'.

Did these spectacles to be auctioned in Bristol once belong to Mahatma Gandhi?
12 August 2020A pair of glasses believed to have once belonged to Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) are to be offered at auction in Bristol this month.

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