Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Dunhill lighter fuels £19,000 ‘record’ price
27 October 2025Chiswick Auctions set what is thought to be a record for a Dunhill lighter when a silver and enamel ‘fancy shape’ pocket lighter and watch hammered at £19,000.
Christie’s holds first Chinese sale in London for five years
27 October 2025Christie’s is holding a Chinese works of art sale in London this autumn – its first for five years. The online auction titled Art of Asia, including the Palmer Family Collection closes on November 12.
Second auction slice of Michael Baggott silver brings white-glove result
27 October 2025The second part of the Michael Baggott collection was a white-glove affair at Woolley & Wallis.
Japanese art in London: A selection of auction previews
27 October 2025A selection of upcoming auction highlights
Which one gets your vote? This year's Asian Art in London award nominees revealed
27 October 2025The annual Asian Art in London festival celebrates outstanding examples of art and antiques offered by auction houses and dealers.
Asian Art: Strength and excellence as cream of the crop comes to the capital
27 October 2025Asian Art in London (AAL), the umbrella event that brings together dealers and auction houses in the common aim of promoting the UK’s capital as a market centre for Asian works of art, returns for its 28th edition.
Chinese art in London: A selection of auction previews
27 October 2025A selection of upcoming auction highlights
Stolen 17th century delftware shoes reunited with owner
21 October 2025A pair of late 17th century delftware shoes that were stolen six year ago have been reunited with their owner thanks to the actions of a Wiltshire auctioneer.
Bear witness to a bullish market with silver novelty claret jug
20 October 2025Victorian silver novelties do not come much better than this claret jug by top London maker Robert Hennell (1826-91).
Clare Durham to lead ceramics and glass department in Devizes
20 October 2025Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes is establishing a dedicated ceramics and glass department, after appointing specialist valuer and cataloguer Clare Durham.
Pick of the week: Mapping out the Jacobite dream
20 October 2025The latest Library Sale at Cheffins in Cambridge included a rare French map documenting the campaign of ‘Charles Edward Prince de Galles’ in 1745-46.
Bradbury Wilkinson archive comes to auction
20 October 2025A collection of banknote essays, designs and specimens from engraving and printing firm Bradbury Wilkinson & Company comes for sale at Special Auction Services in Newbury on November 27.
Big numbers predicted for library of Newton’s protégé
20 October 2025The principal contribution made by James Stirling (1692-1770) to the history of mathematics is the Methodus Differentialis, a paper first published in 1730.
Fighting Stallions set Mouseman auction record
13 October 2025A new benchmark for a Mouseman carving has been set by Tennants’ 20th Century Design department.
The ‘£50 box of costume jewellery’ sold for £600,000 at auction
13 October 2025There was some good old fashioned auction drama in Ruislip on October 7 when a loose sapphire hammered for £332,000, a house record for any of the Adam Partridge salerooms.
Museum successful in bid to secure Russell alms dish
13 October 2025The Gordon Russell Design Museum in Broadway, Worcestershire ran a successful campaign to purchase a Lygon brass alms dish by the English designer and craftsman that came to auction in West Sussex last week.
Einstein’s ‘Lina’ sets £860,000 house record
13 October 2025Gloucestershire auctioneers Dominic Winter posted a new house record last week when a violin used by Albert Einstein during his late teens and early adult life hammered for £860,000.