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Lincolnshire collection
19 September 2022Proving that not all clocks need to sell for thousands to attract interest, this 19th century circular mantel clock sold at Stamford Auction Rooms (20% buyer’s premium) in Lincolnshire for £500 with an estimate of £50-£80.
Selective chiming for French clocks
19 September 2022Not quite in step with contemporary interiors, French decorative clocks have had a lower profile at auction in recent times.
Rare English masters come up for sale
19 September 2022The autumn season will bring a number of English Golden Age clocks by top makers to auction.
Fair sailing for novelties at auction
19 September 2022Two late 19th century novelty clocks at Dreweatts achieved good results on September 6.
Keeping precision time at Exbury House sale
19 September 2022An area of specific current interest is high-quality English 19th century clocks with precision movements housed in carriage or mantel cases.
Sorrows of slavery lamented
12 September 2022On offer at the Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs sale held by Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on September 28 is an anti-slavery broadside: 'The Sorrows of Yamba, or, the Negro Woman’s Lamentation. To the Tune of Hosier’s Ghost'.
Beyond the wizard: Baum’s Oz makes a record
12 September 2022Sold online for a record $20,000 (£16,340) at the former Butterfields, now Bonhams Los Angeles (27.5/26/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) salerooms as part of the David Lloyd collection of modern literature was a 1909 first edition of Frank L Baum’s 'The Road to Oz'.
Coins: BNTA's London showpiece event Coinex returns
12 September 2022Coinex, the most important event on the British calender for many serious coin collectors, opens at the Biltmore Hotel in Mayfair on September 23-24.
Learning made easy as ABC
12 September 2022An early 19th century child’s mosaic alphabet, c.1820, is estimated at £100- 200 at Catherine Southon’s auction at Farleigh Court on November 16.
Expand an interest in Beatrix Potter
12 September 2022The ‘property of a lady’, this concertina-style wallet book by Beatrix Potter, 'The Story of Miss Moppet', is a first edition published by Frederick Warne & Co, London & New York, 1906.
Give it some STIK
12 September 2022'Laugh now but one day we’ll be in charge' is a Christie’s auction from September 7-21 celebrating editions created in the 21st century by ‘leading artists and sought after new talents’.
A hoard under boards emerges at Spink
12 September 2022The 264 English gold coins in the so-called Ellerby Hoard, uncovered by a Yorkshire family while re-laying a floor in an 18th century home, range from the reign of James I to George I.
The perilious life of Thomas Dangerfield
12 September 2022Thomas Dangerfield (c.1650-85) was a notorious thief, counterfeiter, highwayman and conspirator who is chiefly remembered for his role in falsely accusing British Roman Catholics as part of the ‘Popish Plot’ of 1678.
Part 1 of a ‘vast’ topographical library at Gorringe’s
12 September 2022Gorringe’s book sale on October 11 in Lewes includes part 1 of the ‘vast selection’ of British topographical works from the library of Dr Brian Austen.
Mason’s maritime depictions
12 September 2022'Catspaws off the Land and Parting with the Tug' are a pair of drypoint etchings by Staithes Group artist Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965), signed in pencil with Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamps, Nos 7 and 8.
Characteristic of a Parisian workshop
12 September 2022Bellmans is holding a special book and manuscript auction as part of the October sales series, on October 11, with the majority of books coming from one collection.
Buying British abroad as rare coins emerge in Germany and Monaco
12 September 2022Away from London, some exceptional coin sales coming up in Europe include a number of outstanding British issues.
Library gets to the root of agriculture
12 September 2022Assembled over five decades by private collector Martin Burtt, The Glaisdale Agricultural Library on offer at North Yorkshire saleroom Tennants on September 30 includes volumes by the great agricultural writers of the 16th to 19th centuries.
Comics galore on Tyneside
12 September 2022Newcastle auction house Anderson & Garland is holding The Comics Auction on September 28-29.
Rapoport collection part two on offer at Swann
12 September 2022The October 13 sale of Early Printed Books at Swann Auction Galleries in New York will feature part two of the library of Ken Rapoport: English literature, tales of chivalry from the Renaissance, and more Shakespeare, Chaucer, Cervantes, Donne, and others.
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