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Floating antiques fair comes to fruition

When Wales’ most popular 20th century artist Sir Kyffin Williams passed away last year he bequeathed the furniture from his Anglesey home to the University College of North Wales. Numerous pieces that the University did not require turned up in The Wales and West Country Sale at Bonhams Bath on June 25.

LAPADA are to contribute to the costs of installing the approved antiques road sign to encourage association members to get them in place quickly.

Humberts of Gloucestershire have bought the estate agency and fine art auction business of Halls of Shrewsbury.

THIS George II walnut syphon tube wheel barometer by John Hallifax of Barnsley, c.1730, was one of the 209 lots from the Edwin Banfield collection offered by Dreweatt Neate of Donnington Priory on September 4. In a white glove sale all the lots found buyers.

After over 30 years at Hepper House, Bonhams have relocated in Leeds.

Cheshire auctioneer Sir Patrick Cheyne will sell a remarkable cache of work by the Sheffield School watercolourist George Hamilton Constantine (1878-1967) on September 7.