Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
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.
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.
Fighting Stallions set Mouseman auction record
13 October 2025A new benchmark for a Mouseman carving has been set by Tennants’ 20th Century Design department.
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.
Single-owner William De Morgan pottery collection takes flight at Guernsey auction
13 October 2025Evans family collection of William De Morgan pottery brings keen interest at Martel Maides in St Peter Port
Lockdown gardening hoard comes for sale
13 October 2025A Tudor coin hoard found by a Hampshire couple while gardening will be sold at auction in Switzerland next month.
Hero to radicals: Dealer's exhibition marks John Wilkes tricentennial
13 October 2025The 300th anniversary of the birth of the English radical journalist and politician John Wilkes (1725-97) on October 17 is being marked by a small exhibition featuring items from the personal collection and stock of dealer Timothy Millett.
High for a Mouseman recliner
13 October 2025A classic early 1930s Mouseman recliner came for sale at a recent event held at Clevedon Auctions (22% buyer’s premium) near Bristol.
Small but exceptional Doulton group emerge at Adam Partridge
13 October 2025Just 30 figures from single owner collection offered in Cheshire saleroom rack up nearly £60,000 total
Changing sensibilities hit commerical fortunes of once-popular Nost sundial
13 October 2025Selected Items from the Lynch House in Kensworth near Dunstable, home to the Rubin family of dealers for nearly 80 years, was offered in Dreweatts’ Fine Furniture, Sculpture, Carpets, Ceramics and Works of Art sale on September 10.
Inventory recalls wonders of Thomas Windus’ Gothic Hall
13 October 2025Manuscript work offered in Nottingham covers contents of Georgian private museum in north London
Museum purchases exceptional record of tea production from Asian art dealer
13 October 2025Asian works of art specialist Alastair Gibson has recently completed the sale by private treaty of a set of Qianlong gouache scenes depicting tea cultivation and production.
Headless Roman emperor given nod of approval
13 October 2025A recent sale at Harper Field (20% buyer’s premium) in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, included a weathered marble figure of a Roman emperor in armour.
Sèvres bottle coolers sell to French bidder at 20 times the top estimate
13 October 2025A pair of 7in (17cm) Sèvres porcelain bottle coolers (seau à bouteille) sold for £6000 as part of Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) recent Country House Sale.
Antiquarian jewels at Wartski fit for Halloween night
13 October 2025London jeweller Wartski has the perfect gift for Halloween: a late 17th century pendant fashioned from a lizard’s leg.
Tudor coin hoard discovered in garden during lockdown comes to auction
09 October 2025A Tudor hoard found by a Hampshire couple while gardening will be sold at auction in Switzerland next month.