Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Panels impress in sideboard sale
08 August 2022As Sand, an Elizabethan house in east Devon which has been in the Huyshe family since 1560, is being sold for the first time in over 460 years, Chilcotts (21% buyer’s premium) dispersed much of the contents on July 16.
Paperweight adds polish to a collection
08 August 2022This unusual Grand Tour paperweight shown here is made from fragments of Roman mosaic, millefiori, spiral twist and reticelli glass.
Previews: issue 2554
08 August 2022A selection of eight upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.
Silversmiths who left Britain in search of fortune
08 August 2022Sale tells a tale of the English and Scottish makers who headed out to India for work
Top selling mahogany dining table stars in our pick of six auction highlights
05 August 2022ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a George IV mahogany extending dining table with a label for Joseph Bexfield of Norwich that made six times estimate in Bath.
French musical box and a Harold Knight portrait are among five lots to watch
01 August 2022With estimates from £1000-35,000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
La Thangue rediscovery bears fruit at auction
25 July 2022In a Ligurian Garden, a previously missing exhibition work by the British Impressionist Henry Herbert La Thangue (1859-1929), sold for £180,000 (plus buyer’s premium) in the British, European and Sporting Art Sale at Tennants in Leyburn.
Pick of the week: Romantic poet Byron remembered in the form of a mourning ring
25 July 2022He may have been considered ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’ but items connected to Lord Byron (1788-1824) make for very welcome auction consignments.
A Louis Vuitton trunk discovered in an attic is among five lots to watch
25 July 2022With estimates from £150-6000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
Oxford sale shows demand for prized regional variations
25 July 2022Sealed wine bottles possess a powerful sense of time and place. For some collectors it is the regional connections that appeal most.
Glass: Message in a bottle
25 July 2022Sealed examples with coats of arms, names, dates and places reveal a social history and give an ideal opportunity for genealogical research
Buyers bag onion form bottles
25 July 2022This sealed and dated onion in olive green glass, below, comes with a handwritten scrap of paper inscribed 'George found [this bottle] when he dived into the Thames at Windsor'. The seal reads 'S Slater 1710'.
Stockbroker’s Beilby ready to share – at a price
25 July 2022For reasons of both supply and economics not every collector of English 18th century drinking glasses gets to own a piece from the great Beilby enamelling workshop that operated at Amen Corner in Newcastle in the 1760s-70s.
All Souls College sealed bottles remain a common favourite
25 July 2022Of all antique sealed bottles, those made for the All Souls College Common Room are probably the most prevalent.
Not so romantic: sailor’s valentines as souvenirs
25 July 2022Sailor’s sweethearts or valentines were once thought to have been made by sailors as love tokens during their long trips away from home.
Previews: issue 2553
25 July 2022A selection of 14 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.
Rare 17th century miniature bottle emerges for sale at BBR Auctions
25 July 2022Among the very rarest bottles to appear for sale in recent months was a miniature shaft and globe in dark aqua glass, c.1650, sold in South Yorkshire.
Knife and fork made for Napoleon star in our pick of five auction highlights
22 July 2022ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes two pieces of silver-gilt cutlery from a service made for the French emperor
Bunnykins figures set Doulton record
18 July 2022A new record for a Royal Doulton figure has been set in Stoke-on-Trent.
Rawley or Raleigh, it’s worth £22,000
18 July 2022The sale of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on July 13 included a document signed by the adventurer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618).