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Lockdown gardening hoard comes for sale

13 October 2025

A Tudor coin hoard found by a Hampshire couple while gardening will be sold at auction in Switzerland next month.

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Benchmarks set for ‘female gaze’ of Proctor and Dismorr

13 October 2025

While prices for the painter Dod Procter (1891-1972) have been rising over the last decade or so, a big jump in terms of her auction record came at Bonhams latest sale of works by Modern British women artists.

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Hero to radicals: Dealer's exhibition marks John Wilkes tricentennial

13 October 2025

The 300th anniversary of the birth of the English radical journalist and politician John Wilkes (1725-97) on October 17 is being marked by a small exhibition featuring items from the personal collection and stock of dealer Timothy Millett.

Edward Bawden's Sunday Times print

Great Bardfield property yields appealing group of modern prints to Sworders sale

13 October 2025

A single owner collection from a house in Great Bardfield, Essex provided a number of good quality prints to Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern and Contemporary art.

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Kollwitz relief evoked scenes of Allied bombing raids

13 October 2025

In the midst of the Second World War, the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) produced a series of small sculptural reliefs on the theme of mothers protecting their children.

Books and works on paper auction calendar, October 15-30, 2025

13 October 2025

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

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High for a Mouseman recliner

13 October 2025

A classic early 1930s Mouseman recliner came for sale at a recent event held at Clevedon Auctions (22% buyer’s premium) near Bristol.

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Small but exceptional Doulton group emerge at Adam Partridge

13 October 2025

Just 30 figures from single owner collection offered in Cheshire saleroom rack up nearly £60,000 total

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Printing plate helped to spread the slavery abolition message

13 October 2025

An original printing plate for one of the best-known images of the abolitionist movement emerged at a recent Forum Auctions (27% buyer’s premium) sale in London.

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After the antique: Three sculptures inspired by ancient works bringing demand at auction

13 October 2025

A number of high prices for works modelled on or inspired by ancient sculpture were recorded at different auctions last month.

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Outcry over planned sale of National Gallery benches

13 October 2025

A number of restoration specialists have spoken out about the National Gallery’s plan to sell some of its furniture at auction.

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Quarterly event is central to the arms and militaria calendar

13 October 2025

A roster of around 115 dealers and long waiting list demonstrates the importance of the Birmingham fair

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Rare zoot suit swings into Vermont saleroom

13 October 2025

Influenced by the English drape suits favoured by the Duke of Windsor, the zoot suit was all the rage among disfavoured youths in Second World War-era USA.

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Changing sensibilities hit commerical fortunes of once-popular Nost sundial

13 October 2025

Selected Items from the Lynch House in Kensworth near Dunstable, home to the Rubin family of dealers for nearly 80 years, was offered in Dreweatts’ Fine Furniture, Sculpture, Carpets, Ceramics and Works of Art sale on September 10.

Sunbury Antiques Market at Kempton Park Racecourse

Kempton: So many dealers that ‘we even had to turn some away’

13 October 2025

Spaces at the recent Tuesday antiques market at the Kempton Park Racecourse were in high demand

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Inventory recalls wonders of Thomas Windus’ Gothic Hall

13 October 2025

Manuscript work offered in Nottingham covers contents of Georgian private museum in north London

Tea Production Paintings

Museum purchases exceptional record of tea production from Asian art dealer

13 October 2025

Asian works of art specialist Alastair Gibson has recently completed the sale by private treaty of a set of Qianlong gouache scenes depicting tea cultivation and production.

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Sculpture: Peter Pan grows up in Newbury

13 October 2025

Posthumous cast of George Frampton’s New Sculpture model brings record £350,000

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Headless Roman emperor given nod of approval

13 October 2025

A recent sale at Harper Field (20% buyer’s premium) in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, included a weathered marble figure of a Roman emperor in armour.

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A trio of autumnal London art and antiques exhibitions

13 October 2025

To coincide with the V&A’s 'Marie Antoinette: Style' exhibition, portrait miniature specialist Emma Rutherford’s Limner Company is holding a ‘pop-up’ selling exhibition at Daniel Crouch Rare Books in Bury Street, Mayfair.

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