2026

As befits one of the most read and best-selling works of English literature, JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit involves a bewildering array of editions over the many decades since the great fantasy novel made a debut on September 21, 1937.

With estimates from £400, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Today, when it comes to any major news story, ‘live’ or on-the spot images of an event get published pretty much immediately. But that wasn’t always the case.

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of the surge in precious metals prices leading to a temporary suspension in the trade of scrap silver.

A rare Tudor map of the Devon town Kingsbridge has been acquired by South West Heritage Trust.

Art and antiques specialists Geoffrey Munn, Robert Tucker and Bentley & Skinner are among those involved in the latest schedule of events for The British Antique Dealers’ Association charity initiative BADA Friends.

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Treasure House Fair has partnered with Southampton City Art Gallery to host a special exhibition on British surrealism running during the fair's fourth staging this summer.

The continuing surge in precious metals prices has led to a temporary cessation in the trade of scrap silver.

The Royal Air Force Museum has purchased two preparatory drawings for major wartime paintings by Walter Thomas Monnington (1902-76).

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Drawing competition between six phone bidders, a rare work depicting St Ives in Cornwall by David Bomberg (1890-1957) flew above estimate at Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland’s latest Modern Art & Design auction.

The number of archaeological objects unearthed by the British public in 2024 (the most recent available figures) has soared to close to 80,000 items.

A 'lost' portrait of Scottish poet Robert Burns, rediscovered at auction last year, has been loaned to the National Galleries Scotland for exhibition by its new owner.

With estimates from £1000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of a pair of EW Godwin-designed andirons being bought by the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston

A picture by Claude Lorrain (1600-82) has been blocked from export in the hope a UK institution can raise the £9m needed to keep it in the country.

An autobiographical manuscript by a Georgian pharmacist in Dorset will return to the county after the local museum purchased it at auction.

Despite its New York City setting, The Winter Show draws a clutch of UK dealers every year.

The collection of art and books amassed by one of Britain’s most influential critics of the post-war era, the late John Russell Taylor (1935-2025), has been consigned to west London saleroom Olympia Auctions.