Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
16th century whistle, rare portrait miniature and Samuel Palmer print – six lots to watch at auction this week
16 March 2020With estimates from £200-8000, here are six previews of upcoming items this week.
Previews: Up to £2000
16 March 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at upcoming auctions. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise checking that the auction will take place as planned before travelling to the saleroom.
Previews: £2001 - £4000
16 March 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at upcoming auctions. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise checking that the auction will take place as planned before travelling to the saleroom.
Previews: £2001- £3000
16 March 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at upcoming auctions. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise checking that the auction will take place as planned before travelling to the saleroom.
Subbuteo space oddity soars in Essex saleroom
16 March 2020Among the rarest of all Subbuteo games invented and manufactured by Peter Adolph in Tunbridge Wells are those without a sporting theme.
Previews: £4001 - £20,000
16 March 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at upcoming auctions. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise checking that the auction will take place as planned before travelling to the saleroom.
Le Goût Rothschild for sale in Salisbury
16 March 2020This pair of 19th century continental silver-gilt figure groups is among the objects from a Rothschild collection to be sold by Woolley & Wallis later this year.
Previews: £20,000 plus
16 March 2020ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at upcoming auctions. Please note, due to the rescheduling of events in relation to the coronavirus outbreak, we strongly advise checking that the auction will take place as planned before travelling to the saleroom.
Coronavirus: Phillips postpones international auction schedule
15 March 2020Auction house Phillips has decided to postpone all of its sales and events globally until mid-May.
Victorian table, Duleep Singh’s hawking bell and Ottoman portrait miniature – five auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes
13 March 2020ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes an occasional table by Johan Marti Levien made from exotic New Zealand woods that made six-times estimate in Newbury.
‘A pivotal piece of video game history’: PlayStation prototype from failed Sony-Nintendo partnership draws huge bidding in Texas auction
11 March 2020A prototype of the PlayStation has sold for $300,000 at auction in Texas. The 28-year-old gaming console, offered by Heritage Auctions as part of a sale in Dallas this week is thought to be the sole survivor from 200 made during a failed joint-venture between Sony and Nintendo in c.1992.
First major UK antiques fair to be cancelled due to coronavirus outbreak
10 March 2020The spring Art & Antiques for Everyone fair at the NEC has become the first major UK antiques fair to be cancelled following the coronavirus outbreak.
Goddess of love tempts bidders and sells for £60,000 at Dominic Winter
09 March 2020This finely modelled Hellenistic white marble figure of Aphrodite sold for £60,000 (plus 24% buyer’s premium) at Dominic Winter in South Cerney on March 5. Bidding opened at £30,000, twice the low estimate, before bids were exchanged between the internet and the phones.
Pick of the week: House clearance chairs are £16,500 Voysey Arts & Crafts originals
09 March 2020Arts & Crafts enthusiasts who hoped to buy a pair of Voysey chairs at something close to their £20-40 estimate at an auction in the Cotswolds were to be disappointed.
‘Dragon’ dishes fire up a house record in East Yorkshire
09 March 2020A pair of doucai ‘dragon’ dishes that was entered for sale by a local vendor sold for over 25-times estimate at East Yorkshire saleroom Hawley’s.
Shelley ceramics, a Queen Anne silver bowl and a Saxon silver penny – five lots to watch at auction this week
09 March 2020With estimates from £600-15,000, here are five previews of upcoming items this week.
Cumbrian archive offered at auction recalls D-Day’s floating harbours
09 March 2020An historic archive belonging to the engineer who oversaw the design of the Mulberry Harbours in the Second World War comes to auction in Cumbria later this month.
