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Fowler’s star award on offer at Sovereign Rarities
12 September 2022The Royal Medal for Astronomy is presented each year by the Royal Society for distinguished contributions to the applied sciences.
Sheila Fell work climbs to third-highest price
12 September 2022One of the highest prices for a work by Sheila Fell (1931-79) came at Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland’s (25% buyer’s premium) latest Country House & Fine Interiors auction.
London sale offers accounts of Polar exploration
12 September 2022Books related to Polar explorers are among the highlights of Bonhams’ Travel & Exploration sale on September 20.
5 Questions: Furniture and works of art dealer David Houlston
12 September 2022David Houlston specialises in period oak and vernacular furniture and works of art in Stow-onthe- Wold.
Film studios are flooding in, boosting Kempton antiques market
12 September 2022What is likely to be very good news for Edward Cruttenden of Sunbury Antiques and his antiques markets at Kempton Park Racecourse is a film studio invasion at local Shepperton Studios, owned by the Pinewood Group.
Alexander’s distater – the spoils of conquest
12 September 2022Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Achaemenid empire delivered into his hands a vast wealth.
Fairytales, fantasies and fables
12 September 2022This copy of 'Hansel and Gretel', 1925, with 12 tipped-in colour plates by the Danish artist Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), is one of 600 numbered copies (numbered 16) signed by the artist, in the original publisher’s pictorial cloth.
Vintage fair returns to Primrose Hill church
12 September 2022Keeley Rosendale of Discover Vintage is looking forward to being back at St Mary’s Church (right) in Primrose Hill, north London, on Saturday, September 24, with her third vintage home show at this location – “a fabulous building”, she said.
Tridarn's traditional triumph at Trevanion
12 September 2022Proof that a traditional piece of furniture can still bring a traditional price, this mid-18th century oak tridarn went seven times above estimate at the Trevanion (20% buyer’s premium) auction in Shropshire.
Merian marvel in Switzerland
12 September 2022The Books & Autographs auction at Koller in Zurich on September 21 features the greatest work by artist and naturalist Maria Sybilla Merian on the insects and fauna of Surinam, estimated at SwFr120,000-160,000.
Ruby joins in with Jay’s event
12 September 2022Joy O’Meara of Jay Fairs has invited Ruby’s Vintage Fairs, aka Lyn Mistry and Yvonne Hockey to join her in the upstairs room at the antiques and collectors’ fair that she runs at the parish hall in the Oxfordshire village of Benson.
Gilbert exerts a strong magnetic pull
12 September 2022Catalogued as a ‘very good, complete copy in original condition of the first really modern scientific book published in England’, a 1600 first edition (Peter Short) of De Magnete by William Gilbert is estimated at £10,000-15,000 in Forum Auction’s Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper sale in London on September 29.
Tennyson portrayed by Julia Margaret Cameron
12 September 2022Estimated at £3000-4000, this 9½ x 12in (24 x 30.5cm) albumen print by Julia Margaret Cameron of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is offered in the Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photography auction on September 15 at Lawrences of Crewkerne.
Gold from buttons
12 September 2022The Premier Sale held by St James’s Auctions on September 22 includes this gold half guinea token with a ‘phoenix from the flames’ motif made for Wilson and Younge of Sheffield in 1812.
Nantes expo gold medal emerges at Harmers
12 September 2022Although an auction house since 1918, stamps specialist Harmers is a relative newcomer to the London numismatic sales.
Natural history and Bible pioneers in Germany
12 September 2022'Hortus sanitatis' (Gart der Gesundheit, Augsburg 1485), considered among the most important early works of natural history and one of the first scientific incunabula in a vernacular language, is on offer at Munich saleroom Ketterer Kunst on November 28.
Harvard College makes print debut mention
12 September 2022Freeman’s September 21 Books and Manuscripts auction, in Pennsylvania is led by an ‘extremely rare’ first edition of 'New Englands First Fruits' (estimate $20,000-30,000), a 1643 account of Puritan evangelisation in New England.
Precious metals prices: issue 2559
12 September 2022On Friday, September 9, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1707.41 / €1714.84 / £1485.87
Fair Preview: Banned books is the theme of this year’s Firsts
12 September 2022A copy of 'Howl' signed by leading lights of the Beat literature scene in New York is on offer at 'Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair', where this year the theme is banned books.
News in Brief – including the National Portrait Gallery backing the call to keep Reynolds’ Omai in the UK
12 September 2022A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the latest news about the export block of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Omai.
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