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Nicholson, Lowry and Moore works underline value of leading artists in a time of overall uncertainty

A lot offering a Shanghai Municipal Jubilee Medal, November 17, 1893, proved so appealing that it sold at five times the top estimate.

On Friday, May 30, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $3302.22 / €2905.75 / £2446.12

Recently, I decided to retire from the antiques trade, though I remain connected – much like Peter Cameron said in a recent issue of ATG: “true antiques dealers don’t truly leave the trade". I still subscribe to Antiques Trade Gazette and occasionally consider online purchases.

In 1948, Finnish designer Paavo Tynell (1890-1973) undertook one of the most ambitious projects of his career.

A previously unrecorded Elizabethan gold signet ring, a gift from the influential Tudor financier and merchant, Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-79), comes for sale at Noonans on June 17.

This Victorian acrostic gold, hardstone and paste necklace, probably made in Rome c.1890, sold for £3800 (estimate £2000-3000) at Olympia Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) Jewellery & Watches sale on May 22.

A string of works by East Anglian artists, each with their own well-established market, drew notable attention at the latest specialist sale held by Reeman Dansie (25% buyer’s premium).

Kerry Taylor Auctions hosted its first US sale on May 21, offering the collection of Peggy Moffitt - the American model who died last year.

Dealers have voiced their concern at changes to the next staging of The Winter Art & Antiques Fair at Olympia.

This bright-eyed and bushy-tailed claret jug designed in 1882 by Alexander Crichton sold at a hammer price of £36,000 at Tennants of North Yorkshire.

It was billed as the “first ever $100m collection of Old Masters to come to auction” but the Saunders sale at Sotheby’s New York on May 22 came in significantly below expectations.

A Roman marble sculpture thought by its vendors to be a garden statue turned heads at Toovey’s where it sold earlier this month.