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Arctic Medal with provenance to Franklin expedition crewman comes to Surrey auction

26 January 2018

An Arctic Medal with a provenance indicating it was awarded to a member of the doomed Franklin Expedition which vanished into the icy wastes searching for the elusive Northwest Passage has surfaced at a Surrey auction house.

Marvel

Haul of $6m worth of Marvel and DC Comics are coming to auction in the US

25 January 2018

Heritage Auctions in Dallas is offering more than 1000 lots at its February 22 Comics auction including an original Spider-Man cover by artist John Romita Sr.

Wingett

Dealer calls for investors as he plans Welsh tourism hub with sculpture park and massive dragon sculpture

25 January 2018

A call has gone out to help raise £3m to create a Welsh sculpture park and tourist centre that includes an 80ft (24m) bronze sculpture of a dragon.

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Unfinished business – Eight works testing the market for ‘incomplete’ Old Masters

25 January 2018

Do unfinished pictures appeal to connoisseurs? On the one hand you can argue that they show the working methods and creative process of the artist. On the other, they could be considered scraps left over by a painter or a remnant of a long-abandoned project that surely few collectors could want?

Mahler

Anna Mahler bronze sculpture comes to auction in Sussex

25 January 2018

Anna Mahler may be best remembered as the daughter of the famous Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, but she was an accomplished artist in her own right, winning the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937.

Antiques dealer Joel Chen

Dealer Joel Chen gives a tour of his collection ahead of Christie’s auction – video

24 January 2018

Furniture and decorative arts dealer Joel Chen has been in the antiques business for 40 years. He started out with a $6000 loan but, after branching out from his initial focus on Chinese works of art, he expanded to a point where he now runs a 30,000 sq ft showroom in Los Angeles, offering everything from archaic bronzes to contemporary lighting.

Biscuit tins

More than 130 tins are set to take the biscuit at Cheshire auction

24 January 2018

A lifetime’s collection of biscuit tins is heading to Peter Wilson Auctioneers in Nantwich, Cheshire.