2021

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a Rolex Cosmograph Daytona purchased during the recent lockdown for just £30 being resold at auction for a cool £14,000.

Presenter Gok Wan is to host a new TV show and jewellery dealers are asked to take part.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes one of Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson’s smaller decorative pieces that made over three-times estimate in Yorkshire.

A group of silver and silver plate items have been stolen from the Cutlers' Hall in Sheffield and police are seeking information on the incident.

Among this week’s latest Movers & Shakers are new appointments at Webb’s in New Zealand, a new Asia CEO at Bonhams and an update from a Somerset saleroom.

A court victory for textile dealer S Franses will have wider implications for rents across the West End of London, experts predict.

With estimates from £1500-10,000 here are five previews of upcoming items this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a plan to ‘democratise’ the ownership of the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta stamp.

Lucien Freud’s picture of fellow artist David Hockney will be offered at auction this month with an estimate of £8m-12m.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rare sardonyx cameo depicting Napoleon as a classical emperor that sold above estimate at Chiswick Auctions.

Sotheby’s has delayed the sale of a library collection related to the Brontë family to give a chance for institutions to raise funds to buy it.

The 'Oath of a Freeman', one of the most infamous forgeries in US history, sold for a double-estimate $42,000 (£30,000) at Heritage.

A round up of the latest appointments plus a new publication from a book dealer.

A gold medal proclaiming Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church of England – the only known example in private hands – has sold in Switzerland.

With estimates from £500-8000 here are five previews of upcoming items this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a unique edition of Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ found in a Sussex cottage with three original John Constable watercolours bound inside.

The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair is returning to its home in Battersea Park this autumn.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rare Ibibio mask from the Niger Delta that made over 35-times estimate in Salisbury.

Among this week’s latest Movers & Shakers are a group of hires at Bonhams in Hong Kong and New York.

Old Master pictures from the Dutch ‘Golden Age’ will be offered as part of Christie’s Classic Week of sales in July.