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Dreweatts reveals record turnover for a UK provincial auction house

06 March 2026

Dreweatts has posted a 26% jump in annual turnover for 2025.

Goblet

Rare Dutch glass goblet sails in to take €50,000

06 March 2026

Rediscovered during a routine valuation, a wheel-engraved glass goblet by master engraver Jacob Sang (1720-86) has sold at auction in the Netherlands.

Flower by James Bateman

Forum Auctions to sell last stock from Dutch dealership

06 March 2026

With the recent retirement of Allard Schierenberg and Jeanne van Bruggen, the remaining stock of Dutch dealership Antiquariaat Junk will be sold at auction.

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Lake District furniture maker Webb Davies makes a splash with a 1949 bedroom suite

06 March 2026

A chestnut bedroom suite by renowned Lake District furniture maker Stanley Webb Davies sold for a total hammer price of £26,100 at Tennants in Leyburn.

Print of Wiltshire thatcher Lot Long

Thatcher who became a Led Zeppelin album cover star

06 March 2026

Described as “a remarkable convergence of Victorian social history and 20th century musical heritage”, a gelatin silver print of the Wiltshire thatcher Lot Long sold for £16,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) at Denhams in Warnham, West Sussex on February 25.

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Happy for once to avoid business boom time

06 March 2026

A routine valuation day at Chiswick Auctions led to an evacuation of the venue and the surrounding estate after live shells, ammunition and a landmine were brought in.

John Russell Taylor sale online

John Russell Taylor books sale starts online

06 March 2026

The Private Library Book Company is offering for sale online the library of John Russell Taylor (1935-2025), a collection of over 20,000 books, many by the renowned author and critic himself.

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After success of debut edition, Classic Art London announces 2026 delights

06 March 2026

Classic Art London taking place in art dealers’ galleries across the centre of the city this summer has revealed details of some of the exhibitions, events and talks planned.

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Modern British art: An art critic’s own taste tested

06 March 2026

Sale of more than 300 works amassed by former journalist for The Times attracts a wide range of interest

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Cornish studio pottery from renowned dealer brings demand at Lay's

06 March 2026

The latest sale of Cornish Art, Fine Art & Studio Pottery at Lay’s (21% buyer’s premium) in Penzance featured 85 lots from the personal art collection of Michael Hunt.

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Dealer William Mitchell: I still have Matterhorn on my mind

06 March 2026

Dealer and mountaineer is fascinated by both the peak in real life and in a Doré depiction of first ascent

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Modern British artworks head from Preston to Dorset via a descendant

06 March 2026

A group of seven works that were once part of the collection of noted connoisseur and scholar Kerrison Preston (1884-1974) came to a recent auction held by Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Dorset.

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Fifty years on, monthly event in Dorking is still going strong

06 March 2026

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the monthly Dorking Halls Antiques & Decorative Arts Fair, founded by the late Margaret Brown.

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On a single passage to India: a successful debut sale dedicated to the subcontinent

06 March 2026

Inaugural Forum standalone auction achieves impressive results in south London

Scrap gold

News in brief including the gold price reaching an all-time high

06 March 2026

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including that the gold price reached yet another all-time high last week.

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Chinese makers got their skates on to take advantage of porcelain export market

06 March 2026

Among the most desirable of the Chinese export porcelain patterns made for the Dutch market is the so-called ‘skating lesson’ design.

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Going, going, gone with a bang: early Christmas crackers at auction

06 March 2026

A decade ago V&A curators used an X-ray to discover what was inside a vintage Christmas cracker made in the 1920s by the Tom Smith company without having to actually pull it. This revealed a small chocolate.

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Hail a pop-up in new west London venue

06 March 2026

The Midcentury Modern team, aka Lucy Ryder Richardson, Petra Curtis and Tanya Pateman, are launching a pop-up on Saturday, June 13, with 40 dealers at a very cool venue in west London.

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Vintage cameras that turn bidders’ heads in salerooms

06 March 2026

Contrasting contraptions both sell for strong five-figure sums in salerooms north and south

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Recalling the golden age of pink topaz

06 March 2026

The golden age of topaz was the 18th and early 19th century.

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