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Marvellous Marshall vase emerges at Thomson Roddick

20 March 2023

At his best Mark V Marshall can give his one-time employer Robert Wallace Martin a run for his money

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Significant Sèvres tazza makes 22-times estimate at Macclesfield auction

20 March 2023

The Adam Partridge (25% buyer’s premium) sale in Macclesfield on March 2 included a tazza from an important historical Sèvres service.

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Manchester United match programmes ‘could be unique survivors’

20 March 2023

A pair of football programmes proved the pull of early Manchester United memorabilia remains strong among collectors

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Märklin central station just the ticket among railway toys

20 March 2023

Some serious bidding action took place in the room when Lankes (25% buyer’s premium) sold tinplate toys in the small Bavarian town of Döhlau.

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Reflections on the beach

20 March 2023

Can any of your readers identify the painter of this picture, an oil on wood panel French beach scene, please?

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Rowlandson’s comic characters in ceramics style

20 March 2023

Estimated at just £50-80, a rare Staffordshire figure group sold online for £3000 at Clarke’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Semley, Dorset, on February 10.

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Second-heaviest coin in classical numismatics sells at Berlin auction

20 March 2023

One would hardly call a 13in x 2ft 1in (34 x 63cm) copper block, weighing more than 32 pounds (14.6kg), a convenient method of payment, but in the mid-17th century such plates were indeed issued in Sweden under King Charles X Gustav.

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Offbeat Paul Nash image stars in Piano Nobile’s works on paper exhibition

20 March 2023

'Harbour and Room' (1931), a watercolour and pencil on paper by Paul Nash (1889-1946), is included in Piano Nobile’s latest works on paper exhibition.

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Postcard sends a €4000 Bauhaus message

20 March 2023

Director Gropius invited promising student Helm to promote an exhibition

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Obituary: Mark Kenneth Marchant (1935-2023)

20 March 2023

Mark Marchant was born in 1935 and grew up in Sevenoaks, Kent.

ATG letter: Reflections on your busy pages…

20 March 2023

How sad to read of the passing of Hugo Morley-Fletcher. No, I didn’t know him, but he was one of my favourites on the Antiques Roadshow.

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Touch of Baxter detected on Flight, Barr & Barr dish

20 March 2023

An exceptional piece of Regency porcelain emerged for sale at Hannams (23% buyer’s premium) in Selborne, Hampshire, on February 21-24.

British and Irish book auctions: March 21-April 7, 2023

20 March 2023

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

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The web shop window: Victorian love token

20 March 2023

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

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Celebrity lawyer collection brings fame and fortune

20 March 2023

The new season got off to an encouraging start for Cologne auction house Lempertz (26% buyer’s premium) when it held an African and Oceanic art sale on February 1 in Brussels

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Ally Pally fair back in business

20 March 2023

North London event is revived as organiser who used to be involved launches a revamped summer edition

Call out to vintage traders for Henley events

20 March 2023

Judy, Lady McAlpine is looking for more vintage traders to take space at two events in Henley this summer.

ATG letter: Fond memories of a porcelain expert and true connoisseur

20 March 2023

I read with sadness Hugo Morley-Fletcher’s obituary in the ATG No 2583 by Roger McIlroy, who accurately summed up his personality.

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How notable sitters can cancel out the difficulty of selling traditional portraits

20 March 2023

The general theory goes that traditional portraits of white men are difficult to sell unless they are by a major artist or depict a notable sitter.

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Go down by the riverside for a packed event

20 March 2023

Described by organiser Gary Wallis as the “Glasto of the antiques calendar”, the Henley Décor Fair is back at the Henley Showground by the Thames with a four-day packed schedule.

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