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Photograph archive offers snapshot of early 20th century Shanghai

25 February 2025

Today it’s one of the world’s most populous and modernised cities but the Shanghai Albert ‘Bert’ Aiers would have found in the early 1900s would have been very different indeed.

Gold stater of king Caratacus

Record-breaking Iron Age coin heads back to the auction block

24 February 2025

A gold stater of king Caratacus (15-54AD) that broke the record for a single Iron Age coin at auction in 2020 is returning to auction on March 12.

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Modernist Scandinavian lounge chair is among five lots to watch

24 February 2025

With estimates from £1000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Henry Orlik painting

Artist Henry Orlik offers £50,000 reward for return of missing Surrealist works

24 February 2025

Henry Orlik (b.1947) is a celebrated Surrealist who's enjoying a fevered revival, but the cheering comeback is tarnished by a raft of missing work.

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Top stories this week including news of the Holkham Hall attic clear-out sale

23 February 2025

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of an auction of over 400 lots from Holkham Hall in Norfolk.

Howard Carter's suitcase

Famed archaeologist Howard Carter’s suitcase emerges at Elstob

21 February 2025

The archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 gifted his suitcase to his colleague and friend John Healey in 1939 and will now be auctioned at Elstob

Victorian butcher’s shop

Quirky contents of now-defunct Flambards theme park to be sold at Lay’s

21 February 2025

It’s not often that you find a Concorde cockpit, a Victorian pharmacy and a butcher’s shop appearing at the same sale.