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'Remain busy, stay positive' in order to cope with new lockdown say dealers
11 January 2021Firms in tier 1 enjoyed good trading in December but are now back in lockdown.

A bright new future as ‘familiar faces’ open fresh firm in Leominster
14 December 2020A new auction firm has launched in the market town of Leominster in Herefordshire.

A Bizarre discovery for Clarice Cliff historians
14 December 2020The latest Specialist Collectors’ Sale at Cuttlestones in Wolverhampton included a little bit of 20th century ceramics history.

Tin man Dan ready for B2B Malvern date
07 December 2020B2B Three Counties Showground in Malvern event now confirmed to run this month.

Lloyd bowl and Beddall service
07 December 2020Small Britannia standard silver bowls are the signature pieces the Scottish silversmith Michael Lloyd (c.1950).

Stitches in time for the Restoration
07 December 2020A rare Charles II commemorative silver thimble sold for £980 at Bleasdales (20% buyer’s premium).

Newton taken on a journey
07 December 2020English edition of the most famous scientific book of all finally ends up in German hands.

‘Artist jeweller’ Donald very much back in vogue
23 November 2020Two private collections of the work of John Donald (b.1928) enjoyed a clean sweep at auctions in recent weeks.

Table lamp made of synthetic material lights up auction
23 November 2020Ottoman bead carvers in Istanbul – makers of the garlands of beads known as tesbih and komboloi – were swift to appreciate the potential of Bakelite in c.1910.

Picasso’s agony and ecstasy…and the calm of a back garden
23 November 2020Offered with moderate estimates, two Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) etchings from the Vollard Suite drew demand at the recent timed online sale of Modern & Contemporary art at Halls (20% buyer’s premium).

‘Hans Sloane’ Chelsea dish is a vine find
09 November 2020This Chelsea dish moulded as a vine leaf and painted with polychrome fruit is a textbook production from the Red Anchor period c.1755-58.

Old Angus meets miniatures at Hansons
09 November 2020Whisky big and small was a winner at Hansons (20% buyer’s premium) in Bishton Hall, Staffordshire.

Example of first Heuer skipper model sells at Fellows
02 November 2020The Skipper Carrera Ref 7753/54, nicknamed the Skiperrera, was the first of the Heuer skipper models and a trophy lot in the collecting sphere.

Two bears show sale bite
02 November 2020The October 9-10 sale at Kingham & Orme (25% buyer’s premium) in Evesham included this rare pot lid inscribed Genuine Bears Grease.

Watches: vintage era parts bring forward demand for timepieces
02 November 2020Watch parts such as replacement dials, cases and hands from well-known models can add up to a lot of interest at auction, as recent results show.

Albert Wainwright works highlight Stourbridge sale
26 October 2020The Decades of Design sale at Fieldings (24% buyer’s premium inc VAT) in Stourbridge on October 15-16 included 52 works from the family of Albert Wainwright (1898-1943). He was a Castleford artist who trained at the Leeds School of Art in 1914.

Art Deco cocktail shaker in the mix alongside ‘exceptional’ Lalique
26 October 2020This bakelite and electroplated cocktail shaker is from the Master Incolor series made for sale at the Wilson and Gill on Regent Street in the 1930s.

Wally birds and Moorcroft retain star appeal
26 October 2020Topping a 360-lot, £242,000 single-owner collection of Martinware and Moorcroft at Kingham & Orme (23% buyer’s premium) was a Robert Wallace Martin grotesque bird.

Single-owner collection ‘represents something of a return to form’ for the Spode market
19 October 2020The 'Indian Sporting' series is the most celebrated of all Spode blue and white transfer-prints. This multi-scene pattern (there are 17 different designs in total) is based on aquatints by Samuel Howitt from 'Oriental Field Sports, Wild Sports of the East' by Captain Thomas Williamson, published in 1807.

Humbert Craig’s Irish outlook brings benefit to Locke & England
19 October 2020Irish artist James Humbert Craig’s (1877-1944) passion for the outdoors and landscape painting took him frequently to Donegal, Connemara and the glens of Antrim.

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