Auctioneers

High selling rates, prices beating estimates and decent auction totals suggest the market is in a good place

A new sale for the ceramics and glass department at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes is coming soon.

One of the highlights of a sale of Old Master works held by Tajan (26/21/14% buyer’s premium) was a pastel self-portrait by the 18th century French portrait painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803).

A collection of nine letters from Winnie the Pooh author AA Milne sold at Derbyshire saleroom Irita Marriott (24% buyer’s premium) had been passed down through the family of Vincent Seligman and his wife Barbara, who were lifelong friends of the author.

Extensive contents of Cumbrian castle take three days to sell in North Yorkshire auction

This pair of Aesthetic Movement ebonised and gilt salon chairs designed by Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) sold for £56,000 at Gildings in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, on February 17.

Of all the many subjects painted by Harry Davis (1885-1970) during his long and celebrated tenure at the Royal Worcester factory, among the rarest and most desirable are polar bears in an Arctic landscape.

In the last ATG (No 2731) we featured an Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football sold on January 22 at Truro Auction Centre for £4200 and mentioned others sold at Hansons in 2022.

From the 1770s Portobello was one of the main centres of industrial ceramic production in Scotland.

A handful of Continental pictures representing different strands of 19th century art, including Romantic, Realist, academic and Grand Tour traditions, were among the highlights at Chiswick Auctions’ (26% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Old Masters and 19th century art.

So much silver has sold based solely on melt value of late. One wonders exactly how many decent antiques and collectables will have been lost once the bubble has deflated.

Spotlight on awards that brought rewards for vendors in three separate sales

Judging by recent auctions, once live acts in the circus are now thrilling eager collectors via memorabilia.

Dealer from a Cotswolds family business acquired English tin glazed earthenware as a personal interest

John Short, a well-known collector in the Bristol area, amassed over 50,000 autographs in his lifetime. He began obtaining signatures at stage doors in the 1960s right up until his death in 2022.

According to an article in The Times ahead of the estate sale of the paper’s former theatre, film and art critic John Russell Taylor (1935-2025), the west London flat where he lived was crammed not only with artworks but also 20,000 books.