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Museums announce major purchases

28 May 2013

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has purchased the self-portrait by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-69) which is now known as Rembrandt Laughing.

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Art Market

NAVA aim to set new industry standard with valuation course

11 March 2013

The National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers (NAVA) are to launch a new introductory one-day course for auctioneers and valuers as part of a strategy to establish a new industry standard.

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Cheeky biscuit tin at Cirencester auction

21 December 2012

At first glance all looks well in this Edwardian garden party scene illustrated on the lid of a Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin. But is that a naked couple in the bushes at the back of the picture?

Cinema seats in Cirencester

10 October 2012

Thirty original Art Deco seats from Cirencester’s Regal Cinema, demolished in 2004, are going under the hammer at local auction house Moore Allen & Innocent on October 12.

The world’s biggest binoculars?

18 July 2012

What could well be the largest binoculars ever produced, this one-off commission was consigned to Cirencester auctioneers Moore Allen & Innocent following a house clearance in Cheltenham.

At £10,600, another turn of the screw

27 April 2012

THE first corkscrew model designed by Robert Jones and Son of Cheapside, Birmingham in 1840, distinctive for a narrow barrel and a single spike, can usually be bought for around £1000.

Auction Reports

Catching the mouse – twice

18 June 2011

IT is interesting to compare the commercial fortunes of these two similar, but not identical, Mouseman adzed oak sideboards sold at auction in recent weeks.

Auction Reports

Jade teapot takes £1.75m at Salisbury rooms

23 May 2011

SALISBURY auctioneers Woolley & Wallis saw two more lots make over £1m last week.

Cracking open the wine at Cirencester sale

20 December 2010

THE Robert Jones and Son second model corkscrew is perhaps the most desirable of all of the many Victorian patent corkscrews.

Chinese works hit seven-figure sums in Salisbury

22 November 2010

HELPED by the boom in Chinese works of art, UK regional salerooms continue to rewrite the record books. Following the £43m vase at Bainbridges of Ruislip, Salisbury auctioneers Woolley & Wallis posted two more seven-figure sums for jades.