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BADA launches fair at Rutland hotel venue

24 November 2025

The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) is launching a new fair in the East Midlands.

Wallis and Wallis

East Sussex auction house Wallis & Wallis relaunched by long-standing staff members

24 November 2025

East Sussex auction house Wallis & Wallis has new owners after being with the same family for more than 50 years.

Tattoo design

Tattoo pioneer got to the point

24 November 2025

Working in the Bowery neighbourhood in Lower Manhattan in the late 19th century, Samuel O’Reilly (1854-1909) transformed the art of tattooing.

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Titanic passenger’s gold pocket watch takes £1.5m – setting a new auction record

24 November 2025

A pocket watch belonging to a first-class passenger who lost his life on the Titanic was hammered down at £1.5m, or £1.78m including 22.5% buyer’s premium.

2720 AB Crick Diaries

On a winner in the saleroom with lots relating to Nobel Prizes

24 November 2025

A group of manuscripts that featured letters from 12 Nobel Prize-winning scientists was offered as part of Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) Books and Maps timed online sale ending on November 2.

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German motorbike riding high out of the saleroom

24 November 2025

Müller & Kadeder is not such a recognised name of the German toy market such as Märklin, Bing or Lehmann.

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Scottish soldiers march onwards

24 November 2025

First World War depiction by French artist Flameng generates a bidding battle ending only at £13,000

2720AB Lays Rackham

Rackham’s artistic vision of Wagner musical work

24 November 2025

'The Three Norns Winding the Rope of Fate' portrays Erda’s daughters beneath Brünnhilde’s rock and was created as an illustration by Arthur Rackham for a 1911 edition of Richard Wagner’s 'Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods'.

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ATG letter: Does anyone recognise this lady?

24 November 2025

Can anyone help identify this lady on a large Vienna-type vase, dated on base, from her employees, Christmas 1894?

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Big prices paid in transfer market: a Wimpy, Letraset and Star Wars poster promotion

24 November 2025

Extensive themed sale brings a shock result for Star Wars posters promoting a tie-in with burger chain

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TEFAF announces expanded show sections to meet demand

24 November 2025

TEFAF Maastricht will return to the Maastricht Exhibition & Conference Centre (MECC) from March 14-19, 2026 (with March 12-13 by invitation only).

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Festive season exhibition focuses on works from the South Seas

24 November 2025

In the run-up to Christmas, Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch turn their attention to the Pacific with 'A Voyage to the South Seas: Artefacts from Melanesia & Polynesia', showing at their London gallery at 16 Pall Mall from December 1-5.

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Edward Lear thrust into the spotlight

24 November 2025

A fleeting moment caught by the artist but not intended for sale encapsulates the appeal of watercolours

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Precious metals prices: issue 2720

24 November 2025

On Friday, November 21, Michael Bloomsteln of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap againstagoldfixof: $4048.79 / €3518.60 / £3090.68

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English baron revealed to be the mystery portrait sitter

24 November 2025

A Shropshire dealership has rediscovered a lost portrait of an Elizabethan lawyer through heraldic research.

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Lynch images of a rural idyll impress in Dorset sale

24 November 2025

A group of works by James Lynch (b.1956) brought good competition in the regions after emerging at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) of Dorchester, Dorset.

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A Seamaster fit for a civilian

24 November 2025

The 165.024 reference Omega Seamaster 300 was one of the most robust and practical dive watches of the Sixties.

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John Minton fishing scenes net strong four-figure prices

24 November 2025

Towards the end of the 1940s and in the early 1950s, the artist John Minton (1917-57) painted a series of works in Cornwall, producing pictures mostly featuring boats, fishermen and harbours.

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BADA holds prize celebration

24 November 2025

The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) hosted a champagne reception with its members to celebrate its fifth BADA Art Prize at David Messum Fine Art in St James’s on November 13.

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Previews: issue 2720

24 November 2025

Our selection of stand-out lots from 18 upcoming auctions

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