Latest News Articles by Tom Derbyshire
A Victorian Wellington chest is among five lots to watch
07 August 2023With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up for auction this week.
Gilbert White work’s family value
07 August 2023Apocrypha sold at auction was his personal copy and then inscribed by descendants who later owned it
Gallantry medal was awarded to policeman who tackled a pair of murderers
07 August 2023A Queen’s Gallantry Medal in its case of issue awarded to a police constable who helped to catch two violent escaped prisoners sold for £2400 at auction.
Artistic skills better than admin, it seems, judging by views of Mauritius
07 August 2023Thomas Bradshaw has been described as a poor civil servant but a brilliant artist.
Newspaper cartoonist Giles attracts serious collecting interest
07 August 2023In recent times the work of newspaper cartoonists has been reassessed with a nod to its artistic, technical and historical merit.
Victoria Cross value – without the actual VC
07 August 2023Such was the notoriety of Gunner James Collis that his family did not attend the funeral even though he had three sons in the army.
RAF collector swooped on rare medals combo
07 August 2023It may be stating the obvious, but collectors acquire militaria for many different reasons within that market.
Bidders cotton on to Egyptian medals appeal
07 August 2023The esteem in which British botanist William Lawrence Balls (1882-1960) was held is obvious from lots offered at Norfolk auction house Keys (25% buyer’s premium) on July 26-28.
A Napoleonic prisoner-of-war ship model is among five lots to watch
31 July 2023With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
US photos vendor strikes gold with westward expansion
24 July 2023Rather than the rich and famous it was this photograph of three haggard workers that caught the eye in a Cincinnati saleroom.
Huge archive of slides takes 40 times the top estimate
24 July 2023Anyone sitting through a slideshow of images from an extraordinary photograph collection of Indian, south-east Asian, and Middle Eastern subjects sold in a US auction could be there for a long time.
Look at the big picture thanks to huge Leica dummy sales models
24 July 2023Leica cameras of rather different dimensions to normal clicked into action at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).
From chocolate and tea to tyres and petrol: a promotional selection of results
24 July 2023Recent advertising highlights from UK sales and an Italian auction
Photographica: Double visions – stereoscopes
24 July 2023An early version of virtual reality, the Victorian craze of stereoscopes is firmly in focus this summer
A sip that gave magical power
24 July 2023This form of drinking vessel, with handles and lobed edges to the top of the bowl, would have been passed around the table.
Kreem of the Truro collection
24 July 2023A Cornish saleroom offered over 300 enamel signs, advertising memorabilia, pump globes, vehicle mascots and collectables from a single-owner collection.
Sir Brian May: one vision
24 July 2023Denis Pellerin, co-curator of the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy (BMAS) and co-curator of the upcoming Watts Gallery exhibition, tells ATG about the collection
Your photo calling card: the carte de visite craze
24 July 2023Just as stereoscope images became a Victorian collecting craze, another notable photographic fad of the era was the carte de visite