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Martin makes an appearance at Torquay monthly event

03 March 2025

The star attaction at Stephen Large’s third monthly antiques fair at the Livermead House Hotel in Torquay on Sunday, March 23, is TV personality Paul Martin.

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IACF happy at healthy bookings

03 March 2025

Organiser’s first event at the Norfolk Showground after taking over from Aztec will be held later this month

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Westwood and McClaren shirt suits parachuting punks

03 March 2025

A piece of British punk fashion history drew stiff competition at Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland (25% buyer’s premium).

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A first for Harrington: Performing arts theme given its own staging

03 March 2025

Scripts, photographs, posters and printed sheet music reflect what has become a popular collecting market

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Wedgwood medallions form important part of slavery story

03 March 2025

Shortly after the production of the first batch of his jasperware abolitionist medallion, Josiah Wedgwood sent a package to Benjamin Franklin with a covering letter dated February 1788 saying: “I embrace the opportunity to inclose [sic] for the use of your Excellency and friends, a few Cameos on a subject I am happy to acquaint you is daily more and more taking possession of men’s minds on this side of the Atlantic as well as with you.

Books and works on paper auction calendar, March 5 to 19, 2025

03 March 2025

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Adriaen Coorte still life

Saunders collection set to make a record for an Old Master collection says Sotheby’s

28 February 2025

A major consignment of Old Masters is coming up at Sotheby’s New York in May which the saleroom said is poised to break the record for any single-owner sale in this category.

Mary Newcomb picture

London dealer offers Mary Newcomb works from private collections

28 February 2025

Crane Kalman Gallery is staging an exhibition celebrating the work of British painter Mary Newcomb (1922-2008).

Frieze LA

Twentieth century masters make waves at Frieze LA

27 February 2025

Modern names were among the major sellers at the recent staging of Frieze Los Angeles.

Alexander Nasmyth portrait

Former BBC Antiques Roadshow expert’s collection heads to auction

27 February 2025

A collection of works owned by the late BBC Antiques Roadshow expert and former director at Christie’s, Hugo Morley-Fletcher (1940-2022), has been consigned to Roseberys.

Abel Grimmer painting

Rediscovered Old Master painting heads to Salisbury auction

26 February 2025

A Flemish Old Master lost to scholars for almost a century has emerged from a private source at Woolley & Wallis.

Codd bottle

Victorian mineral water bottle makes a very refreshing £19,000 price at Warwick saleroom

26 February 2025

This rare English mineral water bottle sold for £19,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) at Griffin’s Auctioneers in Warwick on February 25.

Edward Elgar sketches

British Library acquires ‘missing’ pages of Elgar’s musical sketchbook through Christie’s

26 February 2025

A draft of a composition by Edward Elgar has been acquired by the British Library in a deal organised through Christie’s.

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Monumental Hans Coper vessel unearthed in London back garden

24 February 2025

A key work by the Anglo-German studio potter Hans Coper (1920-81) has been found in a garden in London.

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Paris dealer wins auction battle for Kwele mask

24 February 2025

The Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on February 19 included this striking tribal mask from central Africa.

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Quirky contents of now-defunct theme park to be sold

24 February 2025

It’s not often that you find a Concorde cockpit, a Victorian pharmacy and a butcher’s shop appearing at the same sale.

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Lost Nazarene oil found in commissioning family

24 February 2025

Paris auction house Tajan is to sell a previously lost and unpublished work by German artist Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869).

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Pick of the Week: Peter Rabbit second printing prized

24 February 2025

Turned down by several publishers, Beatrix Potter shouldered the expense of privately printing The Tale of Peter Rabbit with Strangeways Printers in December 1901.

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News in brief including Howard Carter's suitcase offered at Elstob

24 February 2025

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a sand-scratched suitcase belonging to the Egyptologist Howard Carter offered in North Yorkshire

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Huge collection of early photos acquired by Historic England

24 February 2025

When photography aficionado Janette Rosing (1942-2021) died, Pierre Spake wrote of her in an obituary in ATG (No 2485): “Like all true collectors she pushed the limits of her budget, often exceeding it."

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