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Racing pics in the running once again

24 July 2023

There was a time when historic racing pictures by a top name might have been priced close to six figures.

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Stags Head takes over Northamptonshire fair

24 July 2023

Stags Head Events is taking over the biannual antiques and vintage fair at Lamport Hall near Northampton organised for about 15 years by Antiques2Go.

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A sip that gave magical power

24 July 2023

This form of drinking vessel, with handles and lobed edges to the top of the bowl, would have been passed around the table.

ATG letter: Charlie Ross is not connected with Hanson Ross saleroom

24 July 2023

Antiques Trade Gazette reported (No 2600) on the recent opening of my new saleroom at Royston in the name of Hanson Ross.

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From chocolate and tea to tyres and petrol: a promotional selection of results

24 July 2023

Recent advertising highlights from UK sales and an Italian auction

Rolex watch

Bid Barometer: issue 2603

24 July 2023

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

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Previews: issue 2603

24 July 2023

Our selection of lots from 15 upcoming UK and Irish auctions

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American buyers boost London Art Week

24 July 2023

US museums have been particularly active as underlined by London gallery showcase event highlights

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ATG letter: That spoon was probably adapted for a disability

24 July 2023

I write in response to the letter from Andrew Morris (ATG No 2601) endeavouring to identify the use of the pivoting spoon.

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US photos vendor strikes gold with westward expansion

24 July 2023

Rather than the rich and famous it was this photograph of three haggard workers that caught the eye in a Cincinnati saleroom.

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Collector Interview: ‘It is a bit of a thrill to commission a piece’

24 July 2023

Gordon Hamme, 65, is the retired co-founder of jewellery trade supplier Exchange Findings and the Festival of Silver, previously known as British Silver Week, which staged exhibitions promoting silversmithing.

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Trade urged to be on the look-out for jewellery

24 July 2023

Two antique jewellery dealers are calling on the trade to help locate around £50,000 worth of items that went missing in London, believed stolen.

Marble bust

News in brief including the return of looted antiquities to Libya

24 July 2023

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the return of looted antquties to Libya via the Manhattan District Attorney's office.

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Stereoscopic viewer perfect for a sales drive

24 July 2023

Looking more like a sale brochure when unopened, the embossed front cover shown below in fact conceals a rare 1906 stereoscopic viewer.

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Meat and greet: butcher’s slabs display collecting popularity

24 July 2023

Victorian and Edwardian pottery butcher’s slabs made to display lard, butter and margarine are relatively frequent visitors to UK salerooms.

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Ben Nevis takes artist back to highs

24 July 2023

Like his father of the same name, Thomas Miles Richardson Jnr (1813-90) began his career in Newcastle but he moved to London in 1846.

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Hovercraft inventor Cockerell was also a collector

24 July 2023

Among the sales at 'An Eye into the Ancient Past', the collaborative exhibition from Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch and Claire Brown Art, was this attic black-figure amphora, dated to 500BC.

Books and works on paper auction calendar, July 25-August 18, 2023

24 July 2023

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions held on thesaleroom.com

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Precious metals prices: issue 2603

24 July 2023

On Friday, July 21, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1954.12 / €1760.39 / £1526.66

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Huge archive of slides takes 40 times the top estimate

24 July 2023

Anyone sitting through a slideshow of images from an extraordinary photograph collection of Indian, south-east Asian, and Middle Eastern subjects sold in a US auction could be there for a long time.

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