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King Charles III

Royal visit boosts antiques dealers at Spitalfields Market 

11 June 2025

King Charles III visited the antiques and vintage dealers of Old Spitalfields Market on Thursday, June 5 as part of a trip to east London.

Bentwood apothecary canisters

'UK's largest private collection of antique apothecary objects' comes to auction

09 June 2025

What is touted as the UK’s largest private collection of antique apothecary objects will be sold by the Cotswold Auction Company as part of a sale in Cirencester on June 24-25.

A Complete Map of All Under Heaven

Swiss-based collection gives worldwide access to Chinese map of ‘all under Heaven’

09 June 2025

One of only three known surviving copies of a rare 1644 century Chinese woodblock map has been bought by The Sunderland Collection.

Room for a collector

Art and antiques dealers from Treasure House Fair are part of latest WOW!house installation

05 June 2025

Ten art and antiques dealers have loaned art and objects to this year’s WOW!house in Chelsea.

Micromosaic

Midlands antiques dealer sells micromosaic to Houston museum

05 June 2025

Sutton Coldfield dealer Thomas Coulborn & Sons has sold another artwork to a US museum following a major art fair.

Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet panel

'Outstanding' gold artefact saved for the nation after crowdfunding campaign

04 June 2025

A rare Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet panel bought at a Spink auction last year and blocked from export will stay in the UK after a successful crowdfunding campaign by a local history trust.

Silver dealer Michael Baggott

Michael Baggott’s collection comes to Salisbury auction

04 June 2025

Woolley & Wallis is selling the private collection of silver specialist Michael Baggott (1973-2025) who died unexpectedly in January of this year.

George III table clock

Rimbault clock bid to five times estimate at Dutch sale

02 June 2025

A fine English table clock by Huguenot maker Stephen Rimbault (1711-86) generated plenty of competition at auction in the Netherlands.

Singleton Painting Tipu Sultan Sons

Record price for Singleton as painting of the surrender of Seringapatam makes £1.7m

30 May 2025

A painting by Henry Singleton (1766-1839) depicting the surrender of Tipu Sultan’s two sons to Major General David Baird (1757-1829) made five times its estimate at Bonhams.

Freya Simms

Former LAPADA CEO joins Gloucestershire antiques and interiors firm as managing director 

30 May 2025

Freya Simms, the former chief executive of dealer association LAPADA, is joining businessman Toby Lorford to help grow his Gloucestershire based antiques and interiors firm.

V&A East Storehouse

New V&A site opens with chance to order and view more than 600,000 items

29 May 2025

The huge V&A East Storehouse opens this weekend giving the chance to view many of its items and objects for the first time.

Achill Horses by Mainie Jellett

Whyte’s sets second highest price for a painting by an Irish woman

28 May 2025

An important cubist painting by Mainie Jellett (1897-1944) set a major auction record for the Irish artist at Whyte’s this week.

Rudi Gernreich 1964 monokini

Kerry Taylor Auctions hosts first US sale with Peggy Moffitt collection

27 May 2025

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

The Winter Art & Antiques Fair

Dealers fear downgrading at next Winter Olympia fair

26 May 2025

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

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Nuts about novelty silver: Crichton claret jug nets £36,000

26 May 2025

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.

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First part of spectacular Traveller Collection roars into the saleroom

26 May 2025

The first part of an auction series offering a remarkable array of coins buried in Europe for over 50 years to prevent them from being looted during Nazi invasion kicked off with a focus on British and colonial milled coins from Charles II to George V.

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Phillips makes management changes

26 May 2025

There has been a shake-up of the global leadership team at auction house Phillips.

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Photos show Maria Callas on and off stage

26 May 2025

Stelios Galatopoulos (1932-2022) was a respected Greek music critic (Cypriot-born) who was based in London.

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It just gets better for Spurs – Euro trophy win and success scored with auction bid

26 May 2025

Now celebrating on-the-field success thanks to a 1-0 victory against Manchester United in the Europa League final on May 21, Spurs also came top in the saleroom seven days earlier.

Frans Hals portraits

Saunders collection raises $64.7m at Sotheby’s but misses overall target

22 May 2025

It was billed as the ‘first ever $100m collection of Old Masters to come to auction’ but the auction of the Saunders collection at Sotheby’s New York last night came in significantly below expectations.

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