Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Macintyre Moorcroft chalice is among five lots to watch
02 December 2024With estimates from £1200, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week
Seed testing took root with Sutton's as a pioneering firm
02 December 2024In the 19th century Sutton's Seeds was leading the way in formulating policy for seed testing.
Trippel oil can more than doubles the top estimate
02 December 2024The latest sale of Petroliana at Richard Edmonds Auctions (12/20% buyer’s premium) in Chippenham included a super-rare English oil can.
Advertising antiques: Cadbury's signs and many more in demand
02 December 2024Following more than four decades of collecting, advertising signs such as Cadbury classics have entered the mainstream
Huge football collection kicks off in an auction series
02 December 2024This month enthusiasts can get an auction taster of a sporting archive ranked as among the very best
Prud’hon nude emerges with noble provenance
02 December 2024A fine drawing by French Romantic painter and draughtsman Pierre Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823) sold for €190,000 (£158,300) at L’Huillier & Associés (30% buyer’s premium inc tax).
Call of the kitsch: the Maharajah travels the world to promote Air India
02 December 2024Poster specialist Antikbar (20% buyer’s premium) offered a 10-lot collection of 1960s Air India posters featuring the popular comic ‘Maharajah’ character.
Animal attractions pointed out from Bristol station
02 December 2024This enamel sign - possibly an early AA tourist sign - is thought to have been displayed at Bristol Temple Meads railway station to direct arriving passengers to The Clifton Zoo.
Market test for Test the Best
02 December 2024Cadbury's advertising sign on offer in Staffs saleroom
Meats with approval: ever-popular Palethorpes sign at auction
02 December 2024Many collectors own examples of Palethorpes signs for sausages and pork pies.
Dealer marks 200th anniversary of infamous forger Henry Fauntleroy’s execution
30 November 2024Today, November 30, 2024, marks the 200th anniversary of the hanging of the banker and forger, Henry Fauntleroy (1784-1824).
Early enamel sign for the world's oldest provincial zoo sells at over three times estimate
28 November 2024This enamel sign – possibly an early AA tourist sign – is thought to have been displayed at Temple Meads Train Station to direct arriving passengers to The Clifton Zoo.
Christo design for ‘the world’s largest contemporary sculpture’ sells at Chiswick Auctions
26 November 2024An original drawing for the project that Christo (1935-2020) intended as his only permanent, large-scale public artwork emerged at a recent Chiswick Auctions sale.
Channel Islands table makes 22 times estimate
25 November 2024This handsome Georgian mahogany silver or china table soared above expectations at an auction in the Channel Islands.
Bidder catches silver fox at £100,000 hammer
25 November 2024A spectacular Victorian silver fox modelled by taxidermist James Rowland Ward sold for £100,000 at Tennants on November 16.
Lowestoft birth tablet is among five lots to watch
25 November 2024With estimates from £2000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week
Country house was furnished thanks to three fortunes made
25 November 2024The residual contents of Yorkshire country house Copgrove Hall were sold by Duggleby Stephenson (25% buyer’s premium) in York.
‘Dutch lady’ now thought to depict a German Jew
25 November 2024When it was last sold 30 years ago, Chinese export figures of this rare type were thought to depict a Dutch lady - perhaps the wife of a governor of Batavia.