Silver snail – the ‘trump piece’ bid to £8200 13 May 2013 Holding a major silver sale days after the melt price has plummeted by about £3 an ounce is hardly ideal timing. Auction Reports
The £11,500 amber beads 09 May 2013 Pearls and coloured stones remain strong – but, fuelled by interest from China (and, to a lesser, extent, the Middle East), so does amber. Auction Reports
Battle won for the playing fields of Eton 28 January 2013 In 1881, at around the time of his 18th birthday, the orphan and Eton College schoolboy John Edmund Hugh Balfour went on a major spending spree. Art Market
Wemyss pigs raise their heads in Somerset 21 December 2012 The Wemyss factory in Fife has become almost exclusively associated with its distinctive, personable pottery pigs and Lawrences’ sale in Crewkerne on January 17 contains four pleasing porkers in various sizes and patterns.
Matchless collection of more than 1000 vesta cases 20 November 2012 It was the emergence of the very useful but somewhat hazardous ‘strike anywhere’ match in the 1830s that necessitated the fashion for vesta cases. Auction Reports
UK auctioneers team up to tempt Chinese buyers 29 October 2012 A group of 19 British auction houses has launched The Association of Accredited Auctioneers (Triple-A) in response to the special challenges of doing business with Chinese buyers. News
Model locomotive at Somerset sale 18 October 2012 This large, scratch-built 5in gauge Great Western Railway locomotive is one of two being sold at Lawrences of Crewkerne on November 2, with both expected to realise £3000-4000.
Godward’s Dream comes true at £320,000 12 October 2012 Previously only known from a 1910 print and unrecorded for half a century, this 20in x 2ft 6in (50 x 75cm) oil by John William Godward (1861-1922) was sold by Lawrences in Crewkerne on October 12. Art Market
Wonderful Godward painting is a dream find 28 September 2012 Previously only known from a 1910 print and unrecorded for half a century, this 20in x 2ft 6in (50 x 75cm) oil by John William Godward (1861-1922) will be offered by Lawrences in Crewkerne on October 12.
Vuitton trunk brings $30,000 03 September 2012 The attics of Camden, Maine, a famous summer colony for the ‘haves and have yachts’ of the Gilded Age, are just the place one might expect to find period Louis Vuitton luggage. International
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