A notable feature of the end-of-year book sales in 2018 was the number of online auctions held by […]
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A copy of WB Yeats’ The Wanderings of Oisin… offered in a recent Irish sale was an example […]
Packed with a varied selection of precisely 1000 lots, a very thick catalogue rounded off one saleroom’s year […]
Chinese bidders were the driving force at this autumn’s German and Austrian auctions of Asian art. Extracted from […]
High-priced luxury handbags and other luxury goods made the most money at Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) sale of […]
Illuminated manuscript sales of recent times will be the subject of a future review, but seen here is […]
A single-owner private collection, including significant works by artists from the Modern British canon, will be sold at […]
A table designed by a teenaged Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) for Windsor Castle sold for £23,500 (plus […]
‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, ‘The Mystery of the Marie […]
Posters covering band or artist appearances during the embryonic days of their development are proving very popular at […]
Featuring 17 lithographed illustrations by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, one of 100 special copies of Gustave Geoffroy’s 1894 homage […]
Penguin patties, seal cutlets and roast reindeer – and lots of whisky – were on the menu for […]
A lavish Viennese gold-mounted porcelain tureen and stand – the epitome of Habsburg court luxury during the reign […]
The two sewing boxes modelled as houses shown below were made for different markets but both had strong […]
The Hermès Himalaya Birkin bag is often described as the most desirable handbag in the world. And so […]
Selection of contents from landmark French inter-war modernist building resurface after 1985 dispersal. Extracted from Antiques Trade Gazette […]
The second stock sale from the French ceramics specialist Christophe Perlès was held at Drouot by Pescheteau-Badin (26% […]
A sample of vintage bottles of Scotch whisky tested in a Scottish laboratory has been found to be […]