Billed as the first printed edition of the most authoritative medical text in the Islamic world, a 1593 […]
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Bidders have the chance to get that alien-hunting time-travelling look next week as Will Smith’s suit from Men […]
One of the more successful acts in a recent American magic and conjuring sale involved the appearance among […]
Codes are there to be broken, as the Second World War British team at Bletchley Park proved by […]
There was not one single inventor of the typewriter. Extracted from Antiques Trade Gazette | Roland Arkell After the […]
The market for tribal art covering works from Africa, Oceania and the Americas has a global reach these […]
Almost wholly reliant on slavery, the tobacco industry was the subtle target of British Abolitionists 50 years before […]
It may have been rusty, damaged and lying in a garage in a state of disrepair but a […]
A monogram and faint signature to a botanical study sold at Derbyshire saleroom Hansons (20% buyer’s premium) revealed […]
Albert Tucker was interested in art from a very young age. He had a premonition then that he would become an artist. But to help supplement the family income, he left school and worked as a house painter, where he developed lead poisoning. Albert turned towards Communism when he worked for a commercial artist; he felt exploited. Albert then left the company, and with a group of like-minded artists, formed The Angry Penguins. During and after World War II, casualties from both sides of the war had a traumatic effect on him. The same can be said of the deaths of those he knew as he made portraits of them.
A classic SAS beige beret from the Second World War has sold for what is believed to be […]
On May 17 Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York, is selling the collection of Indian artefacts from the […]
This finely preserved Roman sports mask of a youthful African prince may depict Lusius Quietus (98- 117AD), one […]
In the Classical world, the so-called pyxis – a small round box used for storing trinkets, ointments or […]
The telephone evolution has come a very long way through history and is probably yet evolving. From the need of communication to having aesthetically pleasing devices, the various designs of telephones emerged to fit the need of the time. Antique Telephones can be said to have become a major collectable at least 80 years after they started being produced and exhibited, meaning that the Candlestick Telephones were the first set of Antique Telephones. Although, even relatively newer designs are considered as collectables because of their archaic and unique designs. Special designs that were beautifully crafted in the past eras, and later became obsolete, were kept and preserved as memoirs by individuals and museums.
The Jerwood Collection of Modern British art has emerged as the buyer of ‘Encounter No 1’, an oil […]
A good example of the attraction of a dated and named inscription was evident at Woolley & Wallis’ […]
On May 21 Woolley & Wallis of Salisbury will offer ‘The Grand View of Chao Mountain’ by Zhang […]