Salvage & Architectural Antiques
This broad category can comprise anything from small iron fittings to monumental stonework. Popular areas include fireplaces, garden ornaments, tiles, window frames, signs and plaques.
Plenty of reclaimed objects are offered via specialist traders, auctions and fairs taking place up and down the country and often held outdoors.

The web shop window: Italian trompe l’oeil altar board panels
25 November 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Spate of south London cattle and horse trough thefts rises to four
22 October 2019Local community groups across south London are calling on the antiques trade to be alert to Victorian animal troughs that have been stolen from four sites this autumn.

Rare circular Georgian cistern emerges at Summers Place
14 October 2019Always popular items, a Georgian lead cistern offered at Summers Place Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) was also rare in being circular. Usually they are rectangular, having stood against a wall connected to downpipes.

Call for antiques trade to help find stolen south London cattle troughs
25 September 2019A south London community is calling for the antiques trade to look out for a stolen cattle trough.

Medieval oak sculpture collection goes on public display in Derbyshire for the first time
06 August 2019A Derbyshire family will host a new exhibition showing a private collection of medieval sculptures in Haddon Hall in Bakewell this autumn.

Church gates lead to bidding battles in two salerooms
01 July 2019In market terms, ecclesiastical gates are not the subject of mass appeal but examples by major 19th century designers certainly had their devotees at two June sales.

Gargoyles grimace in Suffolk House Antiques exhibition
20 May 2019A highlight of Suffolk House Antiques’ summer selling exhibition is a pair of 13th or 14th century English gargoyles.

Pick of the week: Figurehead full of canine quality points way to £52,000 result at Charles Miller auction
13 May 2019A carving of a deerhound which once adorned a 19th century yacht more than doubled the house record for a figurehead at a Charles Miller auction in west London. The item sold for £52,000 had a royal connection but it was the quality and condition which secured the high price, said Miller.

Fragment from Roman period sarcophagus – an example of very early recycling
13 May 2019Although the antiquities market is more stringently regulated than ever before, the possibility of illicit material continues to cause concern for collectors of antiquities. This places a greater financial value on pieces with long watertight provenances.

Garden antiques set to bloom at Suffolk dealer's selling event
29 April 2019This cast-metal figure of a young girl with a bird on her arm, below, is offered on a composition base for £325 from English and Continental Antiques.

WH Smith archive of rare maps and signs heads to auction in Gloucestershire
12 April 2019A rare map of Britain and lettering for signage painted by artist Eric Gill (1882-1940) are among the lots coming up at auction from a WH Smith archive.

Signs of the times: Single owner collection stands out at Paris auction
08 April 2019Pioneer collection of street furniture goes from Parisian flat to the saleroom.

Single-owner sale: Signs that Paris appreciates its streetscapes
08 April 2019French and foreign bidders flock to white-glove sale of pioneer collection of the city’s heritage

Berlin Wall fragments sell in West Sussex auction
19 March 2019Two fragments of the Berlin Wall once used in a memorial to those killed in escape attempts sold for a combined hammer total of £17,000 at an auction in West Sussex last week.

Three salvage solutions: a trio of upcoming fairs
28 January 2019Buyers are spoilt for choice during May and early June when three decorative and salvage fairs will be running in the UK, all in interesting outdoor settings. Here is a short focus on them.

Swallow dips in to open another salvage event
07 January 2019Organiser launches Malvern fair to run alongside existing venues.

Salvaged shipwreck items create a niche dealing field at Ally Pally
26 November 2018IACF is expecting a buoyant antique and collectors’ fair at Alexandra Palace on Sunday, December 2, including items sourced from shipwrecks.

Another section of the Eiffel Tower's staircase to be offered at Artcurial in Paris
12 November 2018Artcurial has made something of a habit of offering parts of the Eiffel Tower, pieces that were removed as part of periodic restorations of the famous landmark on the Paris skyline.

Replica of the largest British Roman mosaic to return home to Gloucestershire
02 October 2018A replica of the largest Roman mosaic to be found in Britain could return home to Gloucestershire where it was made.

Nottingham fair features decorative tiles
17 September 2018Organised by specialist dealer Mark van Veen for the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society, the annual tile fair will be held on Saturday, October 6, in Nottingham at St Jude’s Church, Mapperley.

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