West Midlands

A mindful quote about glass from the great American writer Tennessee Williams comes in his one-act drama The Glass Menagerie which premiered on stage in Chicago in 1944: “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

A collection of 69 lots of studio pottery accumulated over 30 years by a Staffordshire woman totalled over £10,000.

The latest Watches sale at Fellows in Birmingham included a rare Rolex Explorer II, reference 1665.

'Great Expectations' first appeared in England in 36 weekly parts in the pages of Charles Dickens’ popular magazine, All the Year Round, beginning on December 1, 1860.

Debra Scadding and her partner Sue McIntosh took over the running of B2B Events’ two very popular events at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, Worcestershire in January, renaming the operation B2B Fairs.

Richard Winterton Auctioneers celebrated not one but two milestones, as head of accounts Sue French clocked up 50 years of service and the firm reached 160 years in the trade.

Huge Roger Hensman collection sale in Stourbridge featured up to 10,000 examples sold in 859 lots

Among the attractions of the Classic Antique Fairs in Birmingham staged from July 12-14 was the eye-catching display of dealership M&D Moir featuring a pair of powder pink vases by Franz Pallme König (c.1890).

Summer fair in Birmingham receives warm welcome after its successful winter debut

A private estate in south Herefordshire is holding its first country house charity car boot sale on Sunday, August 4.

Event that filled the void left by Art & Antiques for Everyone is back at Birmingham NEC after its debut last year

Shouting out an important message is this figure pictured with a hanging sign at one of JOS Events’ fleamarkets at the West Mid Showground at Shrewsbury where the next is on Saturday, June 22.

A football programme for for the Estudiantes de la Plata v Manchester United Intercontinental Cup final on September 25, 1968, hammered down at a top-estimate £10,000 in Shropshire.