Auction record for any football programme 20 May 2013 Almost exactly a year after Graham Budd set a record for any football programme at auction he has done it again.
Faithful fans rally to Sister Wendy 20 May 2013 The name of 83-year-old Sister Wendy Beckett, reclusive nun and famous TV art critic, doesn’t always meet a raptuorous response in the art world, but there is no doubt that the public at large love her.
Boulled over at £88,000 20 May 2013 Possibly dating from the reign of Louis XIV, this fine boulle casket and stand was among an assortment of jewellery, silver, furniture and pictures at Thomas R. Callan’s sale in Ayr, south west Scotland.
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.
Benson light show at Lyon & Turnbull 13 May 2013 The highlight of Lyon & Turnbull’s sale of Decorative Arts was this copper and brass electrolier made in the workshops of the designer and architect William Arthur Smith Benson c.1900.
Birmingham Group jeweller emerges from the shadows 09 May 2013 Although taught by Bernard Cuzner at the St Margaret School of Art and a contemporary of both Dorrie Nossiter and Katie Eadie, George Edward Hunt (1892-1960) is not the best-known jeweller of the Birmingham Group.
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.
Katz catches a falcon for £950,000 07 May 2013 Standing in the same spot where he had placed the winning £3.25m bid for an Egyptian statue of Isis six months before, London dealer Daniel Katz was again in action at Christie’s South Kensington’s latest antiquities sale.
Ceramics and glass feast for London rooms 07 May 2013 Last week was a busy one for glass and ceramics in the London rooms with five auctions taking place over the space of 48 hours and some bullish prices for top pieces.
International bidders compete for pearls and coloured stones 07 May 2013 A single pearl-drop earring worn by Charles I at his execution in 1649, a maharaja’s coat richly embroidered with pearls c.1870, and a necklace of cultured pearls given to Marilyn Monroe by Joe DiMaggio in 1954 – all part of an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum this autumn.
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