Around the Auction Houses

Three of the youngest members of Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s prove that a love of antiques and auction house work is alive and well in the next generation

The Jewellery department at Fellows Auctioneers in Birmingham is celebrating three new qualifications for its team.

Cambridge auction house Cheffins is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year.

The latest jobs moves and appointments across the world of art and antiques

What am I bid for this cuppa and slice of cake?

The Fine Art Golfing Society (FAGS) played its annual challenge match against the Scottish Art Dealers (SAD) at Dunbar GC during a recent tour to East Lothian.

Twenty-eight members of SOFAA were treated to a wonderful visit to the Ashmolean in Oxford.

Michael Ramsey (1904-88) who served as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961-74, curated his own personal visitor book that tracked his career from 1942-87.

The Autumn Auction at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter on October 15-16 includes an array of unusual objects from the collection of the late Christopher Hawkings, who at one time was the co-owner of Phillips, Son & Neale in London’s Bond Street (the firm that later became Phillips).

Actress Jane Horrocks took to the rostrum at Ewbank’s in Surrey on September 19 for Diary of a Wardrobe - A Celebrity Charity Auction for Marie Curie.

James Nickless-Allen, commercial director at Antiques Trade Gazette’s parent company Auction Technology Group, will already be a familiar name for many auctioneers. What they may not know, however, is that he is taking on a remarkable charity challenge.

Although there was some rain around early on, the annual match between the Fine Art Trade and Christie’s was played in lovely bright sunshine, albeit a slightly humid day, on September 3 at Chiswick Cricket Club in west London.

Three years ago we featured Lewis Walduck, aged 17, in our Collector Interview (ATG No 2490). He was also a horological apprentice with The Clock Work Shop at the time. Now, at the venerable age of 20, he has been in touch with us again to announce the good news about his latest role.

Richard Winterton Auctioneers celebrated not one but two milestones, as head of accounts Sue French clocked up 50 years of service and the firm reached 160 years in the trade.

Golfers from the Scottish trade gathered to compete for the Nicholson Quaich at Auchterarder Golf Club beside Gleneagles Hotel last month in a match organised by last year’s winner, Nick Burns from Lindsay Burns Auctioneers & Valuers in Perth.

On April 25, in conjunction with The Worshipful Company of Art Scholars, Sworders hosted an all-day event at its Stansted Mountfitchet auction room, welcoming 30 students from Birchwood, a state secondary school in nearby Bishop’s Stortford.

Cristian Beadman, chairman of Exeter auction house Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood and valuer on 'Antiques Roadshow', abseiled down the north tower of the city’s cathedral on May 4 as part of a fundraiser for a new cloister gallery.

Congratulations to Golding Young director Kirsty Young who has passed her professional assessment at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). After four years of study, she is now a chartered auctioneer and valuer.