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Vaughan was gateway to Clough

27 August 2024

Interest in the troubled Neo-Romantic artist led to attention also on his close friend’s work - and now a joint show

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Constable gravel pits oil sketch unearthed

27 August 2024

A previously unpublished oil sketch by John Constable (1776-1837) depicting Hampstead Heath is coming up for auction next month at Woolley & Wallis.

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Five questions with Andreas Schmid of Schmid McDonagh

27 August 2024

Schmid McDonagh is a dealership of 20th and 21st century objects, furniture, jewellery, art, design and books based in Church Street, north-west London. It will be exhibiting at the Battersea Decorative Fair in October. ATG spoke to co-founder Andreas Schmid.

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Poignant message tells passengers of Titanic tragedy

27 August 2024

Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) Summer Auction in Dorchester featured a remarkable notice issued by the White Star Line to passengers on board the RMS Olympic after the sinking of the Titanic.

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Bid Barometer: issue 2657

27 August 2024

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

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Precious metals prices: issue 2657

27 August 2024

On Friday, August 23, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2493.88 / €2246.40 / £1903.73

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Take a dive into the prints world of sought-after artist Ravilious

27 August 2024

Small group of wartime lithographs that surfaced in a Scotttish saleroom provided a market test

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Previews: issue 2657

27 August 2024

Our selection of upcoming lots at auction

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Quaker antiquary and family put together an extraordinary collection

27 August 2024

The first section of the Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) Historic Textiles & Antiques auction on July 26 contained 33 lots of textiles from the collection of the Quaker antiquary Martha Spriggs and her descendants.

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Piech’s Welsh national anthem print is the pick of his work

27 August 2024

The printmaker Paul Peter Piech (1920-96) was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ukrainian immigrants.

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Pin ball wizards in play

27 August 2024

A recent timed online sale at Bleasdales (20% buyer’s premium) featured a couple of pin balls that performed well.

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Obituary: antiques dealer Paul Lorimer Gifford Nash

27 August 2024

We regret to announce the death of Paul Lorimer Gifford Nash (July 27, 1941-June 28, 2024).

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More orphanage samplers in demand as hand-worked textiles prove sought-after

27 August 2024

Tennants’ Fashion, Costume and Textiles Sale held on August 16 provided many hammer highlights.

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Lowry and reverend friend go to church together

27 August 2024

A joint artwork by LS Lowry and lifelong friend Rev Geoffrey Bennett is among the 1750 lots offered in Mitchells’ three-day Antiques & Fine Art Sale from September 11-13.

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Hockney prints at five and four figures

27 August 2024

Two works representing different ends of the David Hockney (b.1937) prints market came up at Chiswick Auctions’ (26% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern & Contemporary Prints and Multiples.

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Original historical dresses spotted by eagle-eyed bidders

27 August 2024

A pale blue and white striped garment offered at Martin & Pole’s (22% buyer’s premium) General Auction on August 7 was simply described as an “antique silk dress, appears in a photograph worn by Esther Palmer in around 1925”.

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Early Australia takes shape: maps sold at auction in Melbourne

27 August 2024

Seventeenth and 18th century maps sold in Melbourne auction show how much discoveries had revealed

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Flush with cash? Splash out on a Thomas Crapper sanitary ware collection

27 August 2024

A celebrated collection of 19th and early 20th century sanitary wares is to be sold.

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Olympic liner lights emerge from a Durham house

27 August 2024

Eight original light fittings from the RMS Olympic which were discovered in Durham attracted strong interest at an auction held just up the road in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Pick of the Week: Not Braveheart but Brucehead…

27 August 2024

Long before the American/Australian actor Mel Gibson gladdened Scottish hearts with the woad-splattered film Braveheart, the early 19th century was an awakening for Caledonian identity.

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