News


Categories

News

Latest news from Antiques Trade Gazette, the leading specialist publication for the art and antiques market


Noble look to stamp market

28 August 2007

NOBLE Investments, the publicly listed coins company and owners of Baldwin’s auctioneers, have branched out into the stamps market.

Tennants premium

28 August 2007

Leyburn auctioneers Tennants have standardised their buyer’s premium rates across their sales.

1804NE02B.jpg

When war games were just that

28 August 2007

OLD film footage of youngsters playing amid the rubble of the Blitz-ravaged London showed that even in our darkest hour war could be turned into a game.

Boulton clock stolen from top London gallery

28 August 2007

A substantial reward is being offered for the return of a George III ormolu and white marble table clock by Matthew Boulton stolen from Knightsbridge dealership Hotspur on the afternoon of Wednesday, August 22.

1804NE01A.jpg

£19,000 bird in the hand

28 August 2007

Kent’s Canterbury Auction Galleries were one of the few salerooms to hold a good quality art and antiques sale in August.

New owners at Penkridge Salerooms

28 August 2007

As of September 1, the Penkridge Salerooms come under new ownership.

Lawyers believe auction houses face growing legal risk over premium

28 August 2007

Sotheby’s match Christie’s with 25% premium on lots sold below £10,000