Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
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.
Rubens among highlights of Christie’s July evening auction
15 July 2020Christie’s will offer a work attributed to Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) during its ‘Classic month’ series of sales in London.
Frieze London and Frieze Masters fairs cancelled this autumn
14 July 2020Frieze London and Frieze Masters fairs have been cancelled this year due to the ongoing issues relating to coronavirus.
New hires at auction houses Bonhams, Piasa and Charterhouse
14 July 2020An update on the latest Movers and Shakers from across the art and antiques sector.
Rare Spanish Armada maps blocked from export in the hope a UK buyer can pay £600,000 to save them for the nation
13 July 2020A group of 10 drawings that depict the Elizabethan naval battle have been temporarily prevented from being exported in the hope an institutional buyer can raise funds to keep them in the UK.
Online sales rise 4% as demand increases
13 July 2020Online sales of art, antiques and collectables reached $4.82bn in 2019, a rise of 4% from the previous year, and digital demand is set to increase further in the years ahead.