Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Love letters from Welsh artist and poet David Jones go under the hammer
19 August 2020Letters written by the painter David Jones (1895-1974) are coming to auction today at Bonhams.
Antiques degree course reopens after it is saved from cancellation
18 August 2020An antiques degree course run by the University of Central Lancashire in Preston has been reinstated.
Ivory Act: no more challenges to new law says Supreme Court
17 August 2020The Ivory Act 2018 is now expected to come into effect this year after dealers and collectors of antique ivory were refused a final appeal.
Collector interview: Completely in jewel control
17 August 2020In the latest in ATG's occasional series of collector interviews, researcher, archivist, gemmologist, specialist and collector Georgina Izzard describes her fascination
Metal detectorist discovery of remains of 3000-year-old harness gives new insight into Bronze Age Scotland
13 August 2020A discovery made by metal detectorists has been described as of national significance for archaeology.
Police call for help to find stolen Cotswolds post box sawn from its mount
13 August 2020A Royal Mail post box has been sawn from its mount in a Cotswold village and local police are hoping to trace it.
Did these spectacles to be auctioned in Bristol once belong to Mahatma Gandhi?
12 August 2020A pair of glasses believed to have once belonged to Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) are to be offered at auction in Bristol this month.
New Devon auction house and a relocation for a Home Counties collectables specialist – the latest regional auction house news
11 August 2020Movers and shakers – an update on auction house moves across the regions.
Sotheby’s introduces new fee on top of the hammer price and buyer’s premium
10 August 2020Sotheby’s has introduced a new fee called an ‘Overhead Premium’ that is payable by all auction buyers across its salerooms and online auctions globally.
Film producer buys Seacole bust for 101 times the estimate
10 August 2020A terracotta sculpture of Mary Seacole (1805-81) sparked fierce competition at Dominic Winter.
Welsh auction houses to continue to host virtual auctions despite room bidding now permitted
06 August 2020The Welsh government has given auction houses the green light to open premises to the public this month.
Bust of British-Jamaican Crimean War heroine Mary Seacole sells for £101,000 at auction and heads to Nightingale Museum
04 August 2020A terracotta sculpture of Mary Seacole (1805-81), who nursed dying and wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, will go on display in the Florence Nightingale Museum after it was sold at auction last week.
Unreleased vinyl of a demo recording by David Bowie comes to auction
22 July 2020Wessex Auction Rooms in Chippenham is offering a 1966 demo recording by David Bowie on an acetate disc.
New Burne-Jones digital catalogue raisonné shows scholars the way ahead
20 July 2020Art dealer Peter Nahum has created a free-to-access digital catalogue raisonné for the Victorian painter Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833–98).
Welsh auction houses must wait to fully reopen – but online trading continues
20 July 2020Although auction house premises in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland can (under restrictions) be open to the public, the official green light is yet to be received in Wales.
Overseas buyer for Armada maps unless £600,000 is found
20 July 2020A public campaign to keep rare maps of the Spanish Armada in the country will be needed to raise the required £600,000.
Eye of the Collector latest London fair to be rescheduled
18 July 2020The inaugural 'Eye of the Collector' fair in London has been postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus.
TEFAF New York autumn fair cancelled due to coronavirus
17 July 2020The delayed TEFAF New York 2020, postponed from spring to autumn, has now been officially cancelled.
Auctions do their bit for charity with more than £379,000 raised during lockdown
17 July 2020Auction houses did their bit for charity during lockdown – regional UK salerooms raised at least £379,597 (mainly for NHS related causes) during the period.
Auction house Christie’s marketing chief has left the company
17 July 2020Christie’s global chief marketing officer Amy Wexler is to leave the firm on September 1 after two decades at the auction house.