Auctioneers

A recent sale at Key’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Aylsham included a Second World War prisoner of war Rolex 3525 Oyster chronograph offered together with the original owner’s medals, dog tags and personal wartime diaries.

Once damned with faint praise, watches from Cartier’s Bond Street boutique are now winning fans among collectors for their adventurous case designs

'Five Run Away Together' was the third of the Famous Five titles but today the most elusive.

More than a dozen letters and cards from Diana, Princess of Wales, to her family’s former housekeeper were sold at a recent auction at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium).

For Amersham Auction Rooms, it was just another house clearance.

A rare James II and Queen Mary of Modena silver medal commemorating a Spanish shipwreck recovered in 1687 sold for four times the top estimate.

Examples of this three-dimensional technique stand out as part of a dealer’s collection

Small group of wartime lithographs that surfaced in a Scotttish saleroom provided a market test

The first section of the Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) Historic Textiles & Antiques auction on July 26 contained 33 lots of textiles from the collection of the Quaker antiquary Martha Spriggs and her descendants.

The printmaker Paul Peter Piech (1920-96) was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ukrainian immigrants.

A recent timed online sale at Bleasdales (20% buyer’s premium) featured a couple of pin balls that performed well.

Tennants’ Fashion, Costume and Textiles Sale held on August 16 provided many hammer highlights.

A joint artwork by LS Lowry and lifelong friend Rev Geoffrey Bennett is among the 1750 lots offered in Mitchells’ three-day Antiques & Fine Art Sale from September 11-13.