Auctioneers

The March 3-4 sale at Chorley’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire, was topped by a good example of Qing imperial needlework: a yellow ground silk and metal thread cushion cover.

Building work is under way to create a 1000sq ft saleroom at Thomson Roddick Callan’s Auction Centre in Rosewell, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

Stalwart of the saleroom Stuart Triggol is retiring. He featured in ATG No 2717 to mark his 50 years in the trade.

Bidding competition breaks out in south London for Mannerist work discovered in a west London house

Roseberys’ Prints & Multiples auction on April 16 includes 56 lots from the collection of avant-garde artist Agathe Sorel (1935-2020) and her husband Gabor Sitkey, also a painter and textile designer.

Eighteen letters written by Beatrix Potter to an antiques dealer between 1933-43 come for sale in Nottingham this month.

South London auction house Roseberys will join the antiques and interiors shops in Belgravia this spring.

This Georgian treen tobacco stopper or pipe tamper sold for £2900 at Hartleys in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

Generating plenty of competition at Bonhams Skinner (28% buyer’s premium) was this lot of three pieces of Elkington & Co silver plate.

Portrait of actress who mesmerised Hitchcock makes highest sum for the artist since 2020

Norwegian kjenge or kasa have been used for drinking ale at special occasions since the medieval period.

Books from a routine call proved disappointing until a first edition Dracula loomed into view

For followers of rock stars, style icons, actors and actresses, opportunities abound to acquire signed photographs of some of the famous cultural figures of the 20th century.

Original works and prints by the likes of Bob Dylan and Ronnie Wood are increasingly sought after

Compared with Scandinavian exploration by illustrious figures such as Nansen and Amundsen, the Vega Expedition is little known outside the region.

In the latter half of the 19th century, French society stood at the crossroads of progress.

Despite the strict antique ivory rules, Japanese art can still take big sums - as a Norfolk sale demonstrates