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Australian gold rush ring

Memento of the Australian gold rush brings major competition in Devon

05 March 2025

Among the earliest examples of Australian gold rush jewellery are the simple signet rings sold to miners in the settlement of Ballarat in the 1850s as a memento of the boomtown days.

Pocket watch by Lorenz Beha

Pocket watch by murdered Victorian clockmaker triples estimate

05 March 2025

A pocket watch by a watchmaker who was murdered in a highway robbery in 1853 sold at triple its estimate at TW Gaze in Diss, Norfolk

La Belle Mere by John Lavery

Lavery portrait of his wife and daughter makes six-figure sum in Essex

04 March 2025

An intimate work by Irish artist Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) has sold for £360,000 at Sworders.

Sèvres vases

Stand out pieces of Sèvres spotted at New York auction

04 March 2025

An exceptional pair of Louis Philippe period Sèvres hard paste porcelain vases has been unearthed in upstate New York.

2683NEDI NIB RWB David Coleman Typewriter Cropped

David Coleman’s commentary collection sells at RWB Auctions

04 March 2025

The personal collection of notes, research, transcripts and photographs belonging to former BBC sports commentator David Coleman (1926-2013) appeared at a recent sale held by RWB Auctions in Royal Wootton Bassett.

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BADA Friends fund purchase for Tudor-Jacobean mansion

04 March 2025

BADA Friends has supported the purchase of a footstool for Temple Newsam in Leeds.

Fabergé pieces at Sotheby's

Castle Howard collection of Fabergé animals offered at Sotheby’s

03 March 2025

Sotheby’s is to offer a collection of 30 Fabergé animals from the Castle Howard estate on May 6 as part of its Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Vertu auction in Geneva.