Around the Auction Houses

Cambridge auction house Cheffins marked its 200-year anniversary by raising £270,596 for charity in the region – exceeding its original bicentenary fundraising pledge by over £70,000.

Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson is offering something tasty at Bonhams Knightsbridge this week: a few morsels from of his own collection.

Auction house Mitchells in Cockermouth is hosting a book launch on Monday December 8 to mark the publication of a new tome cataloguing the life and work of ‘the Lake District’s most prolific painter’.

The Scottish Art Dealers met in July at Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society, Edinburgh, one of the oldest golfing societies in the world founded in 1761.

Onwards and upwards as Guernsey auction house thrives on island life

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.