Olympia Auctions

Foremost among Olympia Auctions’ several collections on offer in the June 25-26 sale are the 96 lots from Robert Brooker’s collection.

This Victorian acrostic gold, hardstone and paste necklace, probably made in Rome c.1890, sold for £3800 (estimate £2000-3000) at Olympia Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) Jewellery & Watches sale on May 22.

Works coming to auction from artists’ estates give a never-seen-before quality and personal attraction

Veteran antique arms and armour specialist David Williams is joining the Olympia Auctions team as senior consultant.

A pair of pistols that were presented by Napoleon just six weeks after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo hammered at £30,000 in Thomas Del Mar’s sale of Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria held at Olympia Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

A pair of pistols that were presented by Napoleon just six weeks after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo are on offer in Thomas Del Mar’s sale of Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria on December 4.

With the scrap price of silver at such a high level the sad truth is that many items will end up in the melting pot.

A collection of watercolours amassed by the expert Iolo Williams found appeal despite the challenging market

Olympia Auctions is holding a timed online sale that starts to end on October 20 titled Looking Back at John Osborne: Pictures and Possessions from his Estate, The Hurst, Shropshire.

Edged weapons have been a strong feature of the market recently and involve a wide range of ages, styles and countries

The sale of Indian and Islamic art at Olympia Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in London on June 5 included two fine private collections of Iznik pottery.

A flintlock duck gun hailed as exceptional by Olympia Auctions fully lived up to its billing when it shot past an estimate of £60,000-80,000 to hammer down at £380,000 on June 26.