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Swann and Rountree merge companies

03 May 2013

GALLERY NEWS – Jamie Rountree of Rountree Fine Art and Oliver Swann of Tryon Gallery have announced that they will merge their two companies under the new name of Rountree Tryon.

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Further evidence of growing interest in banknotes

29 April 2013

Recent years have seen a massive increase in the offerings and prices realised by banknotes.

Auction Reports

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Chinese figure makes £31,000 in Canterbury

22 April 2013

This Chinese gilt-bronze figure of Maitreya dating to the Qing dynasty was among the Asian highlights on offer at The Canterbury Auction Galleries’ latest sale.

Auction Reports

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Scottish coin takes £130,000 bid

04 March 2013

At the higher end of the value scale when it comes to British coin collecting are the most eloquent coins of the Scottish series.

Auction Reports

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Rare ‘Liberty cap’ half-cent makes £185,000

24 January 2013

A rare American coin from a schoolboy’s coin collection was knocked down at auction for £185,000 at Salisbury saleroom Woolley & Wallis this week.

Auction Reports

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Coins turn out to be pure auction gold as record falls

02 January 2013

Gorringes have set what is thought to be a record price for a coin in the UK provinces, taking £240,000 for a gold Queen Anne Vigo Five Guineas of 1703 at their sale in Lewes last month.

Auction Reports

New appointments as Spink expand east and west

26 November 2012

Spink have announced a series of developments aimed at reinforcing the company’s global standing with a particular emphasis on New York.

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First V.C. awarded to a Sikh regiment

16 November 2012

Spink are to offer the Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross awarded to Sergeant Major (later Lieutenant) Peter Gill of the Loodiana Regiment for saving the life of an officer and his family at Benares and seeing off 27 mutinous Sepoys with only his sergeant’s sword, on June 4, 1857.

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‘Bosworth Field’ gold Angel goes on sale at Spink

12 November 2012

Spink have announced that they are to offer for sale a very rare Richard III Angel found near the site of the Battle of Bosworth in Leicestershire.

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Very affordable British agricultural medals

01 August 2012

This is the season of agricultural shows and so Duke’s of Dorchester’s June 20 sale of British agricultural medals was well timed.

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