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A woodland scene by Hungarian painter Bertalan Pór (1880-1964) caught the eye of a number of bidders at a Cotswolds saleroom.

Sammelband of 16th century scientific works deserved an extensive write-up as best-seller

Not all Contemporary art has to be either abstract or wacky.

The 19th & 20th Century Photography sale at Dominic Winter on May 18 includes several works by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79).

A pair of George III period carved giltwood salon armchairs in neoclassical taste, c.1775, are among the highlights at The Cotswolds Decorative Antiques & Art Fair.

Pictured and described here are six very different lots that formed part of a March 2 sale held by Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium).

Local appeal propelled a naïve painting of Farnham to 40-times its top estimate at Parker Fine Art Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest sale.

The Kent artist William Stephen Tomkin (1861-1940) is best known as a proficient watercolour painter of marine subjects and a draughtsman who worked for General August Pitt Rivers (of Oxford museum fame) between 1882-90.

The elaborately tooled and richly decorated binding with its gilt inner dentelles shown right was made to contain an address ‘To Percy L. Pewtress Esq., Organist at Lee Chapel’, who had served the congregation of that south-east London church from 1883-1922.

Appealing to a range of different types of collectors, particularly aficionados of sewing antiques, Victorian and Edwardian animal pin cushions have their own niche in the novelty silver field.

Exhibitions event features nine dealers from Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire

Mid-century and modern pieces will feature at Wyke House this month

A locket that tells the story of the brief, and little known, Scottish gold rush of 1869 surfaces in Gloucestershire

Nineteenth century aquatint and map provide global perspective in Gloucestershire saleroom

Pictures by eastern European artists generating interest from national-minded buyers is an increasingly common sight at UK regional sales.

If it’s a real mix of topics, genres and ages you are after, this auction had everything

Published in 1906 in a limited run of just 100 copies on paper and 20 on vellum was an edition of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia employing a red and black Subiaco typeface with red initials designed by Eric Gill.

A 20-piece group of early carved sculpture is on offer from Cotswold dealership Houlston.

Although catalogued by Smiths of Newent (20% buyer’s premium) as a chair from the early 19th century Empire period, this ebonised mahogany, gilt and polychrome side chair is more probably from the mid-Victorian period.

Two of the main manufacturers of rocking horses – and competitors – featured in two salerooms recently.