With just five of the 630 lots of toys and models failing to get away and an £80,000 […]
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A collection of automaton advertising signs formed for two dedicated enthusiasts over a 10-year period was offered in […]
The antique Georgian glass was astonishing for its variety, beauty, and technical sophistication. The Georgian glasses are fine expressions of 18th-century English artistic and technical accomplishment. The thickness and weight, as well as the atypical gleam of these glasses, are nothing but the natural features of these vessels. Georgian glasses are available in different shapes appropriate for serving an assortment of beverages and distillations of the period in addition to their fragile engraving and attractively decorated stanches, which enables them to be valued as objects of exceptional splendour. Antique Georgian glass had actually endured enough for it to be enthusiastically gathered nowadays, in spite of its fragility of glassware.
Among the Antarctic lots in the Travel & Exploration sale at Bonhams, the outstanding result came for a […]
First editions of all of Jane Austen’s major works featured in a sale last month held by Swann […]
A painting by the pioneering Indian abstract artist Vasudeo S Gaitonde (1924-2001) led Sotheby’s anniversary sale of Modern […]
The first Liberty & Co.’s small shop opened in 1875 on Regent Street in London’s emergent West End. Gradually, it grew into a showcase for cosmopolitan goods, and the company became synonymous with exotic and avant-garde design. Over time, Liberty slowly developed a reputation for furnishing fabrics, curtains, bedspreads, and upholstery. Along the way, Liberty also invested significantly in small companies producing ceramics, metalwork, and jewellery. The Liberty Company stayed in family ownership until 2000 when the store was modernised, making the fabrics and oriental goods became less prominent. Greater emphasis was laid on luxury accessories, furnishing, and idiosyncratic fashion by major international designers.
A poster for a gig by The Who at The Blue Moon Club in Cheltenham attracted fans at […]
A valuation day in Tunbridge Wells led to the consignment of a late-16th century south German rosewood and […]
The Crimea medal awarded to one of only two officers taken prisoner by the Russians during the calamitous […]
A First World War medal fashioned from a Mexican eight reales coin was an unusual feature of a […]
This pair of 19th century continental silver-gilt figure groups is among the objects from a Rothschild collection to […]
A copy of JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ offered in a recent Surrey sale was a first-impression one of […]
The Church of England was Geoffrey Garner’s vocation in life – collecting military badges his hobby Extracted from […]
Elizabethan silver rarely appears at auctions in continental Europe, so an upcoming collection being offered for sale at […]
Among the rarest of all Subbuteo games invented and manufactured by Peter Adolph in Tunbridge Wells are those […]
A prototype of the PlayStation has sold for $300,000 at auction in Texas. The 28-year-old gaming console, offered […]
A barometer is a scientific instrument that is used to measure the pressure of the atmosphere in a certain area or environment. At first, the barometer was only used by the scientific community. However, this started to change during the late 1600s when barometers started to appear in people’s homes. These household barometers were not just tools for the home, they were also decorations. As such, were made quite ornately mostly following the design aesthetics of the period. There is no question that antique barometers are highly sought after by collectors and enthusiasts. In fact, some of the older, complete and functioning pieces can cost up to $25,000.