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Cotswolds event coming up in the Cotswolds…

07 April 2025

With the first CADA fair to be held in Chelsea receiving positive feedback (see story also in this edition), we now look ahead to a much more local event available for traders

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Presence of box proves key to fantastic Astro Boy price

07 April 2025

Packaging takes Japanese manga character toy ‘worth up to $20,000’ on its own to $100,000 instead

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English delft features in Slater collection sale

07 April 2025

Graham Slater (1927-2024) was fascinated by relics of Stuart and Georgian Britain. His wife Rosemary shared his passions, including his love of mudlarking, exploring the banks of the Thames for fragments washed up by each new tide.

Rooms with a view to making sales: new Brussels fair launched

07 April 2025

Dealer Patrick Mestdagh (Galerie Patrick & Ondine Mestdagh) has partnered with gallery owner Sébastien Janssen (Sorry We’re Closed) to launch a new art and antiques fair in Brussels.

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Sword was presented to one of just three Jewish winners of the VC in Second World War

07 April 2025

A sword presented to one of only three Jewish winners of the Victoria Cross in the Second World War has sold for a hammer price of £7200 at Plymouth saleroom Eldreds (20% buyer’s premium).

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Brontë Parsonage buys Emily’s painting

07 April 2025

The Brontë Parsonage was the successful bidder at £32,000 (plus premium) when an original watercolour drawing by Emily Brontë came for sale in London.

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Cotswolds dealer keeps it in the family

04 April 2025

Baggott Antiques have been a Stow-on-the-Wold staple since the 1970s and are having a sale to celebrate moving premises.

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Lost portrait of Robert Burns appears at auction

02 April 2025

A hitherto lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn has resurfaced at Wimbledon Auctions on March 31.

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Valuable collection of 15,000 coins to be auctioned

01 April 2025

A spectacular coin collection, buried for over 50 years since the Second World War, is coming to the market

Books and works on paper auction calendar, April 2-22, 2025

31 March 2025

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

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French silver flatware made for George III appears at Christie’s

31 March 2025

Flatware from a French silver dinner service made for George III was pre-empted by the Louvre Museum at auction in Paris last month.

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Cartier Tutti Frutti pin buyer nails at at £15,000

31 March 2025

‘Tutti Frutti’ is the name given to Cartier’s range of brightly coloured jewels in the Indian style from the 1920s-30s.

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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.

Burglar jailed for 30 months after Hansons break-in

31 March 2025

A man who broke into Derbyshire auction house Hansons and stole over £20,000 worth of items has been jailed.

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Fabergé - always providing great provenances and wonderful histories

31 March 2025

A white-glove sale tells its own story about the health of a market

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Collector of Naga objects never went to meet the Nagas

31 March 2025

Before independence in 1947, the Naga hill tribes of north-east India were considered an exotic society, radically different in culture and beliefs from the better-known Hindu peoples of the plains and renowned for their fierce resistance to British rule.

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ATG LETTER: I own the pendant of Bonheur’s donkey, bought in Scotland a few years ago

31 March 2025

I read with some interest your recent piece on Rosa Bonheur’s painting of a donkey and its sale in New York (ATG No 2680).

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Precious metals prices: issue 2687

31 March 2025

On Friday, March 28, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $3060.12 / €2840.77 / £2372.19

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'Hidden in a skirt' to escape the Nazis, now sold at auction

31 March 2025

Carl (1883-1946) and Rosa Askonas (1891-1980), were the toast of 1920s Austrian society.

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Not in tip-top condition but cream jug belonged to Tipping

31 March 2025

The sale at Bellmans (25% buyer’s premium) in Billingshurst, West Sussex on February 17 included a small silver gilt rococo-style cream jug of a type that remains something of an enigma.

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