Bishop & Miller

Specialist auctions staged in Stowmarket with expert input show encouraging signs

Other than the growing body of his surviving work, little is known about Robert (or Robart) Mindum.

If you wanted to keep the strings of a tennis racket taut, you could do with a tennis racket press – a device consisting of a frame closed by a spring mechanism.

Suffolk auction house Bishop & Miller is launching a series of designated oak furniture and works of art sales with the input of former Bonhams specialist David Houlston.

The Galloways were a distinguished Victorian military family, as a number of items sold at Bishop & Miller (22% buyer’s premium) revealed.

Richard Miller (1947-2018) was a man with many interests and a good eye.

While wine served by Richard and Sheila Miller was generally drunk from Georgian glasses, it could come to the table via these later talking points.

Thirteen lots in the exotically named Dr Atomicas Journey into Cool auction at Bishop & Miller in Stowmarket on May 7 have been consigned from an individual who worked for 30 years in the film industry with some of the biggest names.

Medal group awarded to First World War nurse is coming up at Bishop & Miller auction.

Stowmarket saleroom Bishop & Miller’s Military, Medals & Weapons auction on April 30 features items from a distinguished Victorian military family.

Model produced for pilgrims and tourists to Jerusalem in mind is a highlight as specialist sales launch

A special selection of European continental porcelain coming up in UK auctions and abroad.

The Bishop & Miller's (25% buyer’s premium) recent sale of Asian Art in Stowmarket was topped by two pieces of Chinese red overlay white glass: a brush pot with three ribbed bands and a scrolling foliate body and a vase with a scrolling leaf design.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Tom Scott watercolour.

Fifteen upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.

Three works selling at regional sales below £1500, including a Rosalie Emslie watercolour.

Like John Constable before him, the 19th century painter John Arnesby Brown (1866-1955) found endless inspiration in the low horizons and expansive skies of East Anglia. He was also interested in light and atmosphere and the effect of sunshine and shadow on the landscape.

This felt bicorne hat is of a type worn by all ranks of the British heavy cavalry and most light cavalry officers until replaced in 1812 by crested helmets and shakos.