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Early Millais drawings found inside Led Zeppelin LP
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Auction Previews - 09 August 2010 |
Led Zeppelin, Robert Burns and a 14-year-old John Everett Millais might seem unlikely bedfellows. But a group of four pencil drawings which have surfaced at the Devon auctioneers Chilcotts of Tiverton appear to link the three.
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Devonshires decide to clear out the Chatsworth attics
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Auction Previews - 19 July 2010 |
JUST one week after Christie’s held their series of London sales from the cellars, storehouses and attics of Althorp, ancestral home of the Spencer family, Sotheby’s announced that they are to hold an autumn auction of attic treasures from Chatsworth, the Derbyshire home of the Dukes of Devonshire.
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Spencer clear-out throws up some affordable treats
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Auction Previews - 28 June 2010 |
HOUSE contents sales always create a frisson of excitement. Alongside the stars of the show, big-ticket pieces that comes trailing clouds of pre-sale publicity, there is the potential thrill of the unexpected, the serendipitous attractions of the less elevated contents of cellar, outhouse and attic, which hold out the possibility of a bargain.
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De Gaulle’s original call to arms revived
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Auction Previews - 14 June 2010 |
WITH the retreat from Dunkirk so much in the news at the moment, Aguttes have a particularly topical offering in their June 18 sale of manuscripts, postcards and historical documents.
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Unique Napoleon archive surfaces in New Zealand
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Auction Previews - 07 June 2010 |
PRIMARY source material relating to the last days of Napoleon’s life has emerged at a charity valuation event in New Zealand and will be offered for sale on June 29. The consignment of more than 40 items includes a lock of Napoleon’s hair and a sketch of the former emperor on his deathbed drawn from life.
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Clausen’s Rose shows her face at Liverpool auction
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Auction Previews - 01 June 2010 |
ANGELIC rosy-cheeked village girls were George Clausen’s (1852-1944) staple subject matter. During his time living in the Berkshire village of Cookham Dean, Clausen was particularly preoccupied with this idyllic rural subject matter and, from around 1889, he began to make a series of studies and paintings of a local child, Rose Grimsdale.
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A new view of Scott at the Pole
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Auction Previews - 18 May 2010 |
• Stoker's great granddaughter puts unique cache up for sale
• Collection includes, letters, photos and even table wares
A remarkable collection of documents and artefacts relating to the ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-13 will be sold by Bamfords of Derby on May 26. The cache of largely unseen material has been entered for sale by the great granddaughter of Edward Archibald McKenzie, a crewman on the expedition supply ship Terra Nova.
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Alma-Tadema treasure found with girlie mags
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Auction Previews - 18 May 2010 |
• Stock book should help rewrite story of leading artist
AN overlooked item in a box of magazines sold at auction for a few pounds could help rewrite the story of one of the most sought after of England’s Victorian painters.
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