People

Latest news about key people in the art and antiques market including top names who work at major auction houses; organisers of significant art and antiques fairs; antiques dealers; collectors; museum curators; heads of trade organisations; market and regulatory experts.

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Talking about our generation: the new numismatists and philatelists

23 June 2025

Three of the youngest members of Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s prove that a love of antiques and auction house work is alive and well in the next generation

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Our new show on Broadway

23 June 2025

Lennox and Sue Cato tell us why they are making a move from Kent to the Cotswolds

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New joiners, departments and retirements – the latest Movers and Shakers from across the world of art and antiques

12 June 2025

From dealers and auction houses, here is the latest round up of people moves.

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Finding Knox ‘was like falling in love’

14 April 2025

Dr Stephen Martin first encountered Archibald Knox in a New York bookstore in 1990.

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Memories of Betty and her business

12 April 2025

Auctioneer and valuer Clive Stewart-Lockhart has written a new biography of one of British Art Deco’s foremost figures - his great aunt Mary Stewart Lockhart, better known as Betty Joel (1894-1985).

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Obituary - Michael Cooke

07 April 2025

Michael Cooke, known to many as ‘Mapman Michael’, passed away on March 14 aged 79.

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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.

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Obituary - Derek Greengrass (1942-2025)

31 March 2025

Derek was born on October 14, 1942, to Gladys and Harold.

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Lord Ashcroft left ‘hugely disappointed’ as museum shuts medal collection gallery

10 March 2025

The museum gallery created to house the extensive collection of one of the most active British medal collectors of recent times is to close.

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Bath Decorative ‘brings new business to the trade’

03 March 2025

The Bath Decorative Antiques Fair returns to The Pavilion venue from March 13-15.

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The tale of Great Aunt Betty, key British designer of the 1920s-30s and a fiercely independent woman

03 March 2025

“To the inhabitants of Wyndham Road, an unremarkable cul-desac of bungalows in Andover in Hampshire, Mary Stewart Lockhart, the white-haired old lady in number 5, must have seemed equally unremarkable… None of them could have realised that between the World Wars she had been one of the leading furniture makers, designers and businesswomen in the country.”

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Collector interview: It all started with just one plate to go on a dresser…

17 February 2025

Susan Pickett, a retired community nurse from Cornwall, is vice-chairman of The Daniel Ceramic Circle. Her own collection of items made by the H&R Daniel manufactory began when she was looking for a plate to fit a space on a dresser. One piece soon became three, which later became more than 200.

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Collector interview: much more than just a spoonful of expertise served up by a specialist

27 January 2025

To say that retired police officer Brab Hallowes has a passion for collecting would be something of an understatement.

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Why acquiring another gramophone always sounds like a great idea

06 January 2025

Christopher Proudfoot is the president of The City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (CLPGS).

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Bring me sunshine and an Eric Morecambe pipe

16 December 2024

British comedy star Eric Morecambe’s (1926-84) lifetime collection of showbiz memorabilia and personal treasures are set for auction at Hansons on January 10-11.

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Huge Flea choice in Somerset

18 November 2024

The hubbub that is the Giant Shepton Flea has been run by veteran fair organiser Sue Ede and her family for nearly 25 years.

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Jim Spencer starts new chapter as he moves from Hansons auction house to launch his own saleroom

04 September 2024

Book specialist Jim Spencer has left Hansons and is launching his own saleroom offering monthly timed online auctions in Lichfield, Staffordshire.

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Book review: The gavel man Charlie Ross in his own words

24 June 2024

Most people will be familiar with Charlie Ross due to his garrulous presence on TV screens for many years, across several BBC antiques programmes.

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Fundraising plea for Brain Tumour Charity

24 June 2024

A fundraising campaign to raise money for The Brain Tumour Charity has been launched following the news that George Wade, a well known member of the auctioneering community, was diagnosed with a double brain tumour.

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