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Looking to a Leyburn Lowry double in lockdown
15 March 2021A late work by LS Lowry (1887-1976), which had never appeared on the open market before, overshot a £60,000- 90,000 estimate at Tennants’ latest Modern & Contemporary art sale.
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Snuff box bidding battle in York
15 March 2021This George III silver table snuff box by Phipps and Robinson, London 1814, is engraved to the cover with a plan of the battle of Talavera in the Peninsular War.
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Crewelwork from 1940s sells at 10-times estimate
15 March 2021Made using woollen yarns on a linen ground, crewelwork is most typically associated with England in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Some buys have all the pluck
01 March 2021Lacking the glitter of a former rock star owner, this Fender Stratocaster sold on the traditional antiques virtues of quality, age and condition.
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Dunhill lighter makes bright price but Mouseman leads Ilkley sale
01 March 2021Dunhill Aquarium table lighters painted by Margaret Bennett and husband Alan in the 1950s-60s remain popular among collectors in these non-smoking days.
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Mug celebrating George Stephenson’s Rocket steams to triple-estimate
22 February 2021This Liverpool creamware transfer-printed frog mug was produced by the short-lived Herculaneum factory c.1830-33 just after the 1829 Rainhill Steam Trials.
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Bing model fires the imagination at Tennants
25 January 2021As with so many other collecting areas recently, the conditions of lockdown – meaning spare money and time for the fortunate – have led to buoyant demand for toys, models and collectables.
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The stuff of collectors’ dreams
25 January 2021Cases of Australian animals stand out among a family home taxidermy treasure trove
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Pick of the week: Aroma therapy – the c.1800 perfumes concealed in a book
18 January 2021The luxury perfumery l’Officina Profuma Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella in Florence is considered the oldest pharmacy in the world.
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Hugs and kisses, Christopher Robin
18 January 2021Mounted in an autograph book that was compiled from 1937 onwards by Miss Joyce Cartmell, a sketch of Christopher Robin was a highlight of a Yorkshire sale.
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A true mouse man carving comes to auction in Yorkshire
11 January 2021The highlight of a private collection of Robert Thompson oak carvings to be offered by Tennants on March 6 is this curious anthropomorphic figure of the ‘Mouseman of Kilburn’.
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Back-painting at sale forefront
04 January 2021Tennants’ (20% buyer’s premium) Autumn Fine Sale in Leyburn was topped by a pair of verre eglomisé pictures by Jonas Zeuner (1727-1814).
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Take the train to Saint-Flour
21 December 2020Four lots of French railway posters attracted a good deal of attention at Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) on December 9-10.
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Mouseman 'critters' chip in with their own creations
21 December 2020Furniture by Robert ‘Mouseman' Thompson and more recent productions from the Kilburn workshop attracted the usual enthusiasm at Tennants (20% buyer’s premium).
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Debut three-day sale graced by an aristocratic selection
21 December 2020In playing condition but with enough problems to be catalogued as ‘sold as seen’, a Nicole Frères brass inlaid music box was one of the unexpected stars of the first three-day sale to be held at Ripon auction house Elstob & Elstob (22% buyer’s premium).
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Pictures set a university challenge
07 December 2020London dealer takes up task of identifying artist behind views ‘of Oxford and Cambridge’.
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Scarborough selection consigned by a familiar face
07 December 2020A notable group of pictures from a local vendor gave a boost to the Autumn Art Sale held by David Duggleby (20% buyer’s premium) in Scarborough.
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Spoons – the great English survivors
07 December 2020As hugely personal items and of relatively small melt value, spoons represent the great majority of English domestic silver items surviving from the pre-civil war period.
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Wingett goes for upmarket upcycling turning scrap into a super Georgian cistern
30 November 2020In an act of decidedly upmarket upcycling, dealer Simon Wingett of Burton Antiques and his business partner have commissioned a series of casts of a George II wine cistern to be made from scrap.
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More than a nod to online
30 November 2020James Waggott of The Antiques Centre York is a happy chap.
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