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 […]

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 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 […]

Estimated at £400-600, this ebonised chiffonier sold for £45,800 at the Mander (24% buyer’s premium inc VAT) auction […]

An interior scene by one of the lesser-known members of the Camden Town Group shone in a Modern […]

A matched pair of Chelsea mugs cropped up in an Andrew Smith’s (21% buyer’s premium) sale in Hampshire. […]

Two watercolours by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) that have been in a private American collection for nearly a […]