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Cheltenham
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Cheltenham market to host 50 dealers this month
01 April 2024Visitors to Cooper Events’ three-day decorative, antiques and fine art fair at Westonbirt School in Tetbury from April 12-14 may well take in another antiques shopping delight that beckons nearby.
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Getting ahead as the year begins
05 February 2024Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) got off to an early New Year start with a Country House auction.
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Winston Churchill's false teeth and RAF Book of Heroes signed by Douglas Bader come to a Cotswolds saleroom
17 January 2024Stubs of cigars smoked by Winston Churchill are common visitors to auctions. But it is pretty rare to find his gnashers on offer.
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Clean sweep: group of gemellion hand-washing basins at five figures
15 January 2024Limoges is regarded as one of the most important centres in the world for fine enamelware.
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What’s cooking in the Cotswolds: Steadman and Knuttel
04 December 2023It is often said that the mark of a good illustrator is that their work is instantly recognisable.
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Vase bought in Shanghai 1933
23 October 2023This Jin dynasty Cizhou-type double gourd vase comes for sale at Mallams in Cheltenham on November 8 with an estimate of £2000-3000.
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Mousetrap signed by Agatha Christie for Inspector Morse actor
19 June 2023A 1954 edition of 'The Mousetrap' play script offered on June 6 at the Cotswold Auction Company (24% buyer’s premium) was inscribed by the author “For James Grout on our 6th birthday, Agatha Christie”.
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Kangxi blue and white delight in Essex
12 June 2023The Qing hexagonal form blue and white jardinière shown here is a type used to grow flowers or bonsai at the Qing court.
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Spotlight on the Tomkinson collection
01 May 2023This special edition of A Japanese Collection (1898) by Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921) is one of the first 25 copies printed on Indian paper and is signed and dedicated by the author to his daughter Dora.
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Items from auctioneer Whitfield's collection come for sale
01 May 2023The Asian & Islamic Art sale at Mallams in Cheltenham on May 24 includes items from the collection of auctioneer Paul Whitfield (1942–2018).
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Timely reminder of horses at war
30 January 2023By the end of the First World War it has been estimated that over eight million horses had died.
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Home called Hazelwood stood in Shanghai
02 January 2023A large reticulated ‘dragon and phoenix’ censer came for sale at Mallams’ (25% buyer’s premium) in Cheltenham from a Herefordshire vendor whose family had lived in Shanghai in the 1930s.
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Unusual golf clubs chip in at regional firms
19 December 2022The Higgs Deliverer ‘rake iron’ club was an attempt to solve a tricky golf problem: how to hit the ball out of sand, high grass or similar terrain.
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The furniture price adjustments that show a positive trend
10 October 2022While traditional antique furniture prices are still relatively cheap, contemporary and mid-20th century material continues to be an expanding market.
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Focus on Chinese five-figure buys from the regions
10 October 2022Although catalogued as Kangxi period, an ovoid blue and white vase offered by Stacey’s (20% buyer’s premium) on September 20 is a Transitional piece.
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Rowland Hilder landscape attracts bidders at Mallams
03 October 2022This typically wintry scene by the prolific artist Rowland Hilder (1905-93) was the star lot of Mallams’ (25% buyer’s premium) Modern Living sale.
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Portraits from one of Gloucestershire’s oldest landowning families to be offered at Chorley’s
22 August 2022A collection of portraits from a descendant of the Hicks Beach family of Witcombe Park will be offered at Chorley’s on September 21-22.
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Careful approach pays off in Cheltenham
25 July 2022Mainland Chinese buyers bidding on jade, porcelain, wooden and textile offerings dominated the leader board at an Asian & Islamic sale at Cheltenham.
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Not so romantic: sailor’s valentines as souvenirs
25 July 2022Sailor’s sweethearts or valentines were once thought to have been made by sailors as love tokens during their long trips away from home.
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Tale of two table cabinets in one sale
21 February 2022Chorley’s (22.5% buyer’s premium) Fine Art & Antiques auction was topped at £28,000 by a 17th century Mughal ivory inlaid rosewood table cabinet.
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