2021

Westminster City Council is upgrading its portfolio of enamel street signs and is selling off more than 200 examples at Catherine Southon next month.

With estimates from £150-12,000 here are seven previews of upcoming items this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of Sotheby’s plans to move its Paris headquarters.

A Wiltshire auction house has alerted the trade to a missing collection of porcelain.

A Tintin comic cover in France and a Batman number 1 issue in the US have sold for multi-million-pound sums at auction.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a Tang dynasty (618-907) pottery figure of a Bactrian camel and rider that went four times over estimate.

Iain Rushbrook has worked at auction houses for 42 years in total and in the saleroom at The Red House on Hyde Street in Winchester for 35 of them.

An Egyptian polychrome painted limestone relief from the 12th dynasty has been bought by the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich, Germany.

An update of moves and other developments from across the art and antiques industry including at Sotheby’s and Dreweatts.

Chawton House has bought a rare first edition of Poems by Jane Austen’s favourite poet, William Cowper, which was once owned by her brother.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of how the new coronavirus lockdown restrictions in the UK mean that online trade will remain the main focus for the art and antiques market.

How could throwing a missile at Winston Churchill’s car earn you a medal if you were British?

ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes a rare Orientalist basin by the French ‘father of art pottery’ and a pair of mahogany bookcases that went 16 times over estimate.

The Dorset Archives Trust (DAT) has raised the final £5000 needed to purchase a collection of important manuscript and printed material once owned by novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).

A Russian icon has been stolen from the shop of a London dealer and the art and antiques trade are asked to look out for the object in case it is offered for sale.

Auctions, shops and centres under the new coronavirus lockdown restrictions in England will be able to continue to trade online.

With estimates from £300-5000 here are three previews of upcoming items this week.

ATG wishes all our readers a very happy new year.