2025

Enamel signs are among the items from actor Chris Barrie that will be sold in September in Dorset.

The AMI Continental II jukebox appeared in 1962, a time when space race excitement was gripping the US.

BADA Friends are supporting two charitable efforts according to the organisation’s second digital newsletter.

A British maritime chart collection spanning 200 years has been temporarily blocked from export to give UK museums the chance to raise funds to keep it in the country.

The Hampton’s Design Edit, a timed online auction from US auction house Freeman’s Hindman, is underway, raising money for East Side House.

Works by Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Grace Cossington Smith, and Howard Arkley to be offered for sale on August 19

The recently-found work by Lubin Baugin will be offered for sale at French auction house Vichy Enchères on August 16.

Bermondsey Antiques Market is celebrating a new investment from Bermondsey Square Community Fund.

The latest in the new series of Fake or Fortune? featured a work possibly by 18th-century artist Angelica Kauffman.

Gorringe’s is selling a significant Bloomsbury Group painting in September.

Dealerships on Edinburgh’s historic Dundas Street are staging shows to coincide with the Fringe festival.

A notable collection of paintings, with a strong emphasis on north-east landscapes and coastal scenes, will be offered for sale on Thursday 28 August.

With estimates from £80, here are five previews of upcoming items.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included a plea to find stolen gold and silver jewellery.

New traffic restrictions on Portobello Road have affected the trade of the antiques dealers in shops and stalls along the famous west London street.

A “once in a lifetime” discovery of a 1937 jacketless first impression of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit smashed expectations, selling for £43,000 (£52,030 with fees) at auction.

One of the largest groups of pictures by Robert Jobling (1841-1923) ever to come to the market in a single sale appeared at Anderson & Garland’s (25% buyer’s premium) latest fine art auction.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary music concerts ever held: Live Aid.

A previously unknown Anglo-Saxon era silver penny, recently found by a metal detectorist in Lincolnshire, is expected to sell for between £20,000-30,000 at auction in the autumn.

In an auction that helped establish a secondary market for the artist and sculptor Peter Jackson (1930-2019), Suffolk saleroom Lacy Scott & Knight (22.5% buyer’s premium) offered a group of 245 works from the collection of the artist’s widow.