Collectables

Clare Jameson founded her firm Potterton Books more than 45 years ago.

While the Elsecar Heritage Centre in Barnsley is undergoing major restoration work and drainage improvements, many contractors on site have had cause to thank the staff at bottle and advertising specialist BBR Auctions (20% buyer’s premium).

Our second report covering the auction that made the highest total for a UK various-owner book sale

A popular lot at Jacobs & Hunt (25% buyer’s premium) in Liss, Hampshire, on July 16 was this Alfred Dunhill Aquarium walnut and lucite cigar or cigarette box.

Dealer about to sell his collection at auction explains his fascination with events a year before Waterloo

Bryan Faussett (1720-76) was a clergyman and amateur historian in the grand tradition who spent much of his time opening tumuli in his native county of Kent.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Kinsky (25% buyer’s premium) in Vienna completely underestimated the international interest for a painting by the late 17th century Swiss artist Joseph Werner (1637-1710) offered in an art and antiques sale this summer.

John Boydell’s (1720-1804) entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that “no print publisher before or since has ever exerted as much influence on the course of British art”.

Following furnishings in Edinburgh, a Carlisle sale offers books from the library of Clan Maxwell seat

Several bidders set their sights on a late 18th century flintlock hunting rifle which was offered by Dawo (25.95% buyer’s premium) in Saarbrücken.