On January 10, Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) sold a single-owner collection of polar and other travel books – […]
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Lots relating to explorer Matthew Flinders are particularly topical given that his grave has just been re-discovered in […]
The £140,000 record-breaking Cedric Morris lower painting at Chichester saleroom Henry Adams (plus 20% buyer’s premium) was not […]
Once breech-loading guns became the norm, the gun itself was only one part of the equation. Ammunition was […]
Following the fall of Seringapatam in India on May 4, 1799, portions of the spoils were variously allocated […]
Dora Carrington ‘tinsel’ painting of circus is top lot as buyers splash the cash in Somerset auction
“There’s no money around in January” is the refrain you often hear from businesses in the new year. […]
Illustrated below is the title page of a copy of the very first book by CS Lewis to […]
The sale of a family collection of British and American art and antiques assembled by three successive generations […]
Sales of ski posters have long been a seasonal feature of the auction scene scheduled for those winter […]
Many weapons have to remain silent witnesses to the conflicts in which they took part, so there is […]
This 3ft 2in (97cm) high Roman marble statue of draped female form with a lyre, representing the Greek […]
Medals awarded to Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister George Canning come up at London auction
Pub names can provide a snapshot of British history. Many years ago now, while subsisting on cheese on […]
Two suits of armour that emerged in recent auctions at Continental salerooms. Extracted from Antiques Trade Gazette | Mark […]
A recently released new film about the relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, one in […]
It was not a vintage season for armour in the salerooms, but in Thomas Del Mar’s (24% buyer’s […]
Fees charged by auctioneers, from buyer’s premium to condition reports, have been a hot topic in the pages […]
Greenslade Taylor Hunt’s (19.5% buyer’s premium) first sale of the year got off to a bright start with […]
The latest dispersal of objects from the collection of the late Christopher Martin-Zakheim and his shop Iconastas Gallery […]