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Complete copy of first Panini World Cup sticker album offered at Hansons

03 April 2025

A completed copy of a 1970 World Cup Panini sticker album will appear at Hansons on April 10.

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Lost portrait of Robert Burns appears at auction

02 April 2025

A hitherto lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn has resurfaced at Wimbledon Auctions on March 31.

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Virgil Finlay sci-fi illustration makes 16 times estimate

02 April 2025

A pen and ink signed illustration by American pulp fiction illustrator Virgil Finlay (1914-1971) made 16 times its estimate at Gildings on March 25.

Five Guinea Of George III,

Valuable collection of 15,000 coins to be auctioned

01 April 2025

A spectacular coin collection, buried for over 50 years since the Second World War, is coming to the market

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French silver flatware made for George III appears at Christie’s

31 March 2025

Flatware from a French silver dinner service made for George III was pre-empted by the Louvre Museum at auction in Paris last month.

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Cartier Tutti Frutti pin buyer nails at at £15,000

31 March 2025

‘Tutti Frutti’ is the name given to Cartier’s range of brightly coloured jewels in the Indian style from the 1920s-30s.

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Fond memories of Gorringe’s gone by - and excitement about the auction house's future

31 March 2025

Sussex and Kent saleroom Gorringe’s begins a new chapter this month under full family ownership and new management.

Burglar jailed for 30 months after Hansons break-in

31 March 2025

A man who broke into Derbyshire auction house Hansons and stole over £20,000 worth of items has been jailed.

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Fabergé - always providing great provenances and wonderful histories

31 March 2025

A white-glove sale tells its own story about the health of a market

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Collector of Naga objects never went to meet the Nagas

31 March 2025

Before independence in 1947, the Naga hill tribes of north-east India were considered an exotic society, radically different in culture and beliefs from the better-known Hindu peoples of the plains and renowned for their fierce resistance to British rule.

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ATG LETTER: I own the pendant of Bonheur’s donkey, bought in Scotland a few years ago

31 March 2025

I read with some interest your recent piece on Rosa Bonheur’s painting of a donkey and its sale in New York (ATG No 2680).

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'Hidden in a skirt' to escape the Nazis, now sold at auction

31 March 2025

Carl (1883-1946) and Rosa Askonas (1891-1980), were the toast of 1920s Austrian society.

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Not in tip-top condition but cream jug belonged to Tipping

31 March 2025

The sale at Bellmans (25% buyer’s premium) in Billingshurst, West Sussex on February 17 included a small silver gilt rococo-style cream jug of a type that remains something of an enigma.

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Leicester letter shows his serious side after earlier flirtations with Elizabeth I

31 March 2025

Letter to Queen Elizabeth I written after Robert Dudley’s marriage lacks the earlier flirtatious tone

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British bidder brings Lady Bridget from US collection back to the UK

31 March 2025

This early 18th century portrait by Thomas Gibson (1680-1751) shows Lady Bridget Poulett (1702-73) in her prime.

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Mouseman works going, going, gong in Yorkshire

31 March 2025

The craftsman-made Yorkshire oak furniture of Robert Thompson continues to be in high demand at auction.

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Previews: issue 2687

31 March 2025

Our selection of lots on offer in eight upcoming auctions

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Different jewels but both from the subcontinent

31 March 2025

The Fine Jewellery sale at Dreweatts (26% buyer’s premium) in Newbury on March 19 included two quite different lots from the subcontinent - and both were well received.

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Heads up for overseas bidders active at Oxford auction

31 March 2025

Two very different works offered in Oxford now have new owners from Australia and continental Europe

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Royal Doulton dunce achieves top-class result

31 March 2025

Noke’s portrait of a humiliated child was one of the very first models from the Royal Doulton HN series

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