Lyon & Turnbull

Belgian city’s council was successful with pre-sale deal to buy queen’s plea on behalf of political prisoners

Premium-inclusive total achieved in Edinburgh underlines the quality of lots on offer

The pictorial enamel signs advertising Webb’s Seeds of Stourbridge are some of the most popular on the UK market.

The second day of the Design Since 1860 sale at Lyon & Turnbull on October 17 included a rare stained oak Charles Rennie Mackintosh stool from Miss Cranston’s Argyle Tea Rooms.

Five plates from the series Views of Calcutta underlined the demand for work by Thomas Daniell (1749-1840) when they hammered at £24,000 in Edinburgh on September 4-5.

A set of six rare Scottish provincial silver trefid spoons dating from c.1686 were not only among the earliest Glasgow-made spoons recorded, but also appeared to be the only extant work by the goldsmith George Luke.

Small group of wartime lithographs that surfaced in a Scotttish saleroom provided a market test

Long before the American/Australian actor Mel Gibson gladdened Scottish hearts with the woad-splattered film Braveheart, the early 19th century was an awakening for Caledonian identity.

This Celtic silver ‘ribbon’ torc, or armlet was made – perhaps in Ireland – sometime in the period between c.500BC-500AD.

Successful Scottish art sale suggests significant single-owner groups do not have to be a vital component

Father and son collection stars as centrepiece of 150-lot inaugural Islamic and Indian art offering

Pictures by two leading women of the Modern British art movement sold strongly at a Lyon & Turnbull (26/25/20% buyer’s premium) auction in London.