Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Guinness family collection to be auctioned in rare on-the-premises sale at Elveden Hall
15 August 2023A single owner collection from Lord Iveagh will be offered by Sworders at the Guinness family’s stately home Elveden Hall in Suffolk.
Summer scorchers: Trio of big prices blows away August cobwebs
14 August 2023A usually quiet August was dramatically awakened by a series of sleepers that emerged at three UK regional auction houses.
‘Workhorse’ of the trade rides into the sunset after 70 years of toil
14 August 2023It’s the end of an era: Volvo will no longer sell its estates or saloon cars in the UK, choosing to market only its SUVs.
New Midlands antiques fair planned by organiser IACF
10 August 2023Events organiser IACF (International Antiques & Collectors Fairs) is to launch a new fair in the Midlands.
End of an era for antiques dealers: Volvo Estate cars to no longer be sold in the UK
09 August 2023After 70 years, the Volvo Estate - the workhorse of countless antiques dealers over the years - is being withdrawn from the UK market.
Fairs boost security amid thefts alert
07 August 2023Market and fair organisers have told ATG they are bolstering security following a spate of recent thefts targeting the jewellery trade.
Fortnum & Mason fashion comes home
07 August 2023Luxury fashion discovered in a charity shop is heading to upmarket London retailer Fortnum & Mason.
Personal collection of dealer and decorator Robert Kime comes to Dreweatts auction
02 August 2023Robert Kime, the collector, dealer and interior decorator who died last year, spent a lifetime building his own collection alongside his business.
Rare medieval seal matrix bought by the National Trust at auction returns to its original home after 500 years
01 August 2023A rare medieval seal matrix that was found by a metal detectorist in a field and offered at auction will now go on display at its original home.
Plea to help trace missing necklaces
29 July 2023The antiques and jewellery trade are being asked to look out for a necklace lost by actress and author Dame Sheila Hancock and a locket stolen from a 91-year-old woman.
Bonhams’ specialists offer their own artworks at auction
26 July 2023Bonhams is hosting an online sale featuring artworks by staff at the auction house.
Rich tapestries: fundraising plans for historic textiles
25 July 2023Fundraising is under way at two museums and a third has just finished a lengthy conservation project.
Library from famed Foyle books family up for sale
24 July 2023More than 10,000 books and artworks from the library of the late Christopher Foyle are coming to auction in Cirencester.
Pick of the week: Family collection of manuscripts and pictures tell story of an artist lost in sadness
24 July 2023A poignant description of life as an artist studying at the Royal Academy in the mid-19th century emerged at auction and more than doubled its estimate.
Funds needed to buy Henry VIII tapestry to return it to UK
24 July 2023A previously lost tapestry, commissioned by Henry VIII for Hampton Court during the turmoil of the English Reformation, is a step closer to returning to the UK for public display.
New Treasure Act rules take effect this month
24 July 2023New laws introduced under the Treasure Act take effect from July 30, in a bid for more antiquities finds to be bought by museums.
A rare Minton boar’s head tureen is among five lots to watch
24 July 2023With estimates from £120, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
American buyers boost London Art Week
24 July 2023US museums have been particularly active as underlined by London gallery showcase event highlights
Trade urged to be on the look-out for jewellery
24 July 2023Two antique jewellery dealers are calling on the trade to help locate around £50,000 worth of items that went missing in London, believed stolen.
Hovercraft inventor Cockerell was also a collector
24 July 2023Among the sales at 'An Eye into the Ancient Past', the collaborative exhibition from Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch and Claire Brown Art, was this attic black-figure amphora, dated to 500BC.