The owner of an 18th century double-manual harpsichord, the only one of its type known to exist, has […]
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A trademark nocturnal scene by Victorian painter John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-93) got away on low estimate for £80,000 […]
Watercolours by artist Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) are to be offered at Dawson’s Auctioneers of Maidenhead from the collection […]
For over a century, a monumental 8ft (2.44m) high Meiji cloisonné vase provided the focal point to one […]
Serendipity had it that two important, but scantily catalogued, lots of European glass emerged for sale in the […]
Adam Smith’s own copy bearing his simple bookplate makes £750,000 in London auction. Extracted from Learn Antiques Gazette […]
A 1627, Ulm first of Johannes Kepler’s ‘Tabulae Rudolphinae…’, an important astronomical work named in honour of the […]
Norfolk auction house Keys has marked the end of its 65th year in business by gaining independence from […]
Earlier material in the last Comic Book Auctions (16% buyer’s premium) sale of the old year, which ended […]
Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-98) was the toast of London during the latest Victorian art sales held in the […]
‘A Book of Songs and Poems from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha’, the Ashendene Press book of […]
As the Barbara Holliday collection of Mod Brit art goes under the hammer on January 15 at Sworders, […]
Illustrations offered as part of an online Sotheby’s (25/20/12.9% buyer’s premium) sale held in early December included a […]
Suave and sophisticated are the terms that come to mind when referring to the late, great and saintly […]
Inscribed to a fellow dramatist, a presentation copy of the 1933 first of Nathaniel West’s classic black comedy, […]
Topping a number of good pre-Christmas clock sales was a rare table/bracket clock, among the last made by […]
Among the first women potters recognised by the public as individual designers worthy of collecting were Hannah Barlow […]
Christmas has little, if any, effect on collectors of vintage and antique toys, but that doesn’t stop auctioneers […]