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Wiltshire

Police alerted to missing collection of porcelain from Wiltshire auction house
16 January 2021A Wiltshire auction house has alerted the trade to a missing collection of porcelain.

Talisman boss sets up new business in Wiltshire
07 December 2020Wiltshire shop marks return to the spotlight for Talisman boss but in a more relaxed mood.

Wiltshire ‘collective’ hails slow but steady transatlantic deliveries
23 November 2020Shipping in the older, literal sense of the word has played a vital role in coping with robust international demand during the current Covid-19 challenges, according to a Wiltshire business.

Back-to-front way of doing business
23 November 2020Quirky might be a way to describe Andrew Blackall’s antiques shop which is both Number 56 and 70 in the High Street, Corsham.

British Dominion: rare petrol pump globe makes £23,000 at Richard Edmonds
16 November 2020Every collector of glass petrol pump globes – or lenses as they are known in the US – hopes to own examples by the classic big brands: BP, Shell, Esso and the like.

Butler’s garden blooms in Wiltshire saleroom
09 November 2020This small watercolour by Irish artist Mildred Anne Butler (1858-1941) titled 'The Garden, Kilkenny' sold for an unexpected £2500 at Wessex Auction Rooms (17% buyer’s premium) in Chippenham.

‘Pussy Galore’ Rolex watch bought in Singapore brings demand in Wiltshire
02 November 2020The Rolex GMT-Master Ref 6542 is known to collectors as the ‘Pussy Galore’ as it was worn by Honor Blackman in Goldfinger. Made from 1954-59, it was replaced by the more commonly encountered GMT-Master Ref 1675.

‘Retro’ drinking glasses are Hoffman classics
26 October 2020The sale at Wessex Auction Rooms (17% buyer’s premium) in Chippenham on October 17 included this lot catalogued as ‘a retro banded glass decanter and glasses together with a set of similar shot glasses’. The estimate was just £15-25.

Promotion poster pre-Titanic tragedy comes to Wiltshire sale
19 October 2020This lithographic poster design of Titanic and Olympic, c.1910-11, was withdrawn after the disaster of 1912 so there are only a handful in existence today. They would have been used in travel agents and White Star Line offices to advertise the liners.

Naval scene with links to Nelson family comes to auction in Wiltshire
16 September 2020A naval scene by the well-known marine artist Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867) that has provenance to the families of Lord Hood and Horatio Nelson is coming to auction at Henry Aldridge & Son.

African American battalion medal from American Civil War comes to auction in Wiltshire
02 September 2020This rare award, a Colored Troops Medal or Butler Medal of 1864, comes for sale at the Medals & Coins, Arms & Armour Militaria at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on September 23 with an estimate of £8000-12,000.

Beat that: what a festival line-up
10 August 2020Although a smaller affair than the much better-known Isle of Wight festival of the same year, the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music, held on June 27-28, 1970, at the Shepton Mallet showground, boasted perhaps the greatest UK music festival line-up of all time.

It’s not what you know but Who you know
03 August 2020The response among Sixties regulars at a north London pub to the fly poster, below, advertising a gig by the High Numbers may well have been: The who?

Unreleased vinyl of a demo recording by David Bowie comes to auction
22 July 2020Wessex Auction Rooms in Chippenham is offering a 1966 demo recording by David Bowie on an acetate disc.

Ericsson ‘grinder’ telephone dials in at £10,500
06 July 2020Estimated at just £60-80, a rare Ericsson telephone sold for £10,500 (plus 17% buyer’s premium) at Wessex Auction Rooms in Chippenham.

Pump action in Wiltshire
20 April 2020Richard Edmonds (20% buyer’s premium) in Chippenham, Wiltshire, has sold some very rare British petrol pump globes in the past year – including a globe for the little-known brand Dominion (£13,000 in November).

Wilton on the way
24 February 2020Newcomers to the 44-dealer annual Wilton House Antiques Fair include the Vangelli Gallery in London with Asian decorative art, the West Sussex antique dealership Wakelin & Linfield which sells English and Continental furniture and Shine on Design, specialising in Art Deco pieces.

Go west for vintage bazaars
17 February 2020The first of the year’s two spring dates for the popular Vintage Bazaar held in the West Country will be on Saturday, March 14.

Sèvres collection from the late Judith Howard comes to auction
01 February 2020A collection of porcelain from the renowned Sèvres specialist Judith Howard, who died last year, is to be sold in Salisbury.

The bell tolls for two prize silver porkers
13 January 2020Edwardian silver table bells modelled as tortoises are not too hard to find but silver pigs are a much rarer beast. Accordingly, it was surprising to see two appear on two successive days at winter sales.

- Burstow & Hewett
- Granary Sale
- 20 Jan 2021 - 09:00 AM
- Ashley Waller Auctions
- Antiques, Furniture, Vintage & Collectables
- 20 Jan 2021 - 10:00 AM
- Byrne's
- Fine Sale
- 20 Jan 2021 - 10:00 AM
- Chaucer Auctions
- Autographs
- 20 Jan 2021 - 10:00 AM
- Crow's Auction Gallery
- Antiques & Collectables
- 20 Jan 2021 - 10:00 AM
- Golding Young & Mawer Lincoln
- Collective Sale
- 20 Jan 2021 - 10:00 AM
