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Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Last month, Britain’s oldest postcard publisher, J Salmon, announced it was closing after almost 140 years of business. Blamed for its demise was the rise of selfies and social media.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Among the most coveted of all Martinware is the ‘Wally’ bird. These quirky and grotesque jars (really caricatures of people in Victorian London), were produced from the early 1880s onwards and were named after their maker Robert Wallace Martin, one of four brothers who ran the famous British pottery.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

More than 400 objects from Howard Hodgkin’s (1932-2017) London home and studio will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s on October 24 in New Bond Street.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

West Hall, located on the outskirts of Long Burton a few miles south of Sherborne, is an imposing stone-built manor house. The ancient iron-studded front door still bears the axe marks made by Oliver Cromwell’s Roundheads in the English Civil War as they tried to beat down the door. They suspected Charles I may have been hiding inside.

A letter billed as one of the most important items of ephemera from the Titanic to be offered at auction will go under the hammer at Henry Aldridge & Son on October 21 in Devizes, Wiltshire.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

Mural painter, stained glass artist and landscapist, Henry Arthur Payne (1868-1940) had many talents.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.