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Porcelain and ceramic sales stand out at recent Antiques for Everyone fair

31 July 2017

Porcelain and ceramics were among the strongest sellers at the recent Antiques for Everyone fair.

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They said what?! The week (24-30 July) in quotes from the art and antiques world

30 July 2017

In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others.

Festival

Volume of Company School painting goes under the hammer at Bristol Auction Rooms

29 July 2017

A selection of Indian Company School paintings is among the lots on offer at Bristol Auction Rooms next month.

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Newark 1646 and the story of English Civil War siege coins at auction

28 July 2017

Poor old Newark. A bit like Belgium and Poland over the centuries, in the English Civil War the English Midlands town ended up in the wrong place in wartime – stuck in the middle - as armies trampled back and forth across it or lay siege. The town’s misfortune is a coin collector’s gain, however, as the lozenge-shaped coins minted in Newark during the conflict have become familiar and fairly common visitors to the salerooms.

Stone

Christie’s appointments of co-chairmen in Asian art department are the latest in a strategic series

28 July 2017

Christie’s has appointed Jonathan Stone and Tina Zonars to the positions of co-chairmen in the Asian art department.

HG Wells’ ‘War of the Worlds’

First edition of HG Wells’ ‘The War of the Worlds’ doubles estimate at £11,000

28 July 2017

Martians land in Surrey and terrorise much of southern England in tripedal war-machines equipped with death-rays before finally succumbing to terrestrial bacteria. That, put very simply, is the story line of HG Wells’ 1898 novel, ‘The War of the Worlds’, an apocalyptic vision that retains an iconic place in the realms of science fiction.

Mike Mills

Dealers’ move to permanent space could help preserve business for their children

28 July 2017

A family-run dealership has opened a new premises in Lincolnshire.