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Obituary: furniture dealer William Buckley (1946-2025)

18 October 2025

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of William "Bill" Buckley, a respected antiques dealer who built his reputation on integrity and an eye for quality furniture.

Scrap silver and gold

Dealers fear overheating as gold and silver prices climb higher

17 October 2025

A rally in global demand for gold and silver has led to UK precious metals dealers stopping quoting rates and the suspension of trade in some areas.

The Goldweigher by Rembrandt

Rare Rembrandt counterproof emerges in Cambridge

17 October 2025

As followers of Old Master prints are well aware, Rembrandt (1606-69) etchings appear at auction with great regularity with the most sought after subjects and earliest states commanding impressive prices.

Johnny Van Haeften

High-priced sales racked up at Frieze Masters on first day of fair

16 October 2025

Frieze London and Frieze Masters opened with a strong attendance and a string of sales reported on the first day of the fairs in Regent’s Park.

Octagonal bench

National Gallery benches take seven times estimate at auction

16 October 2025

A group of benches consigned by The National Gallery took more than seven times their top estimate at auction.

Gold pendant

British Museum launches fundraising plea to buy £3.5m 'Tudor Heart' pendant

15 October 2025

The British Museum is trying to raise funds to buy a gold pendant discovered by a metal detectorist in a field in Warwickshire in 2019.

Red Bridge Near Aspatria by Percy Kelly

New high for Percy Kelly at Cumbria auction

15 October 2025

Cumbria saleroom Mitchells (22% buyer’s premium) broke its own auction record for Percy Kelly (1918-93) this autumn.

Leaping Man by Elisabeth Frink

Swindon sale benefits from the friends of Frink

14 October 2025

A significant group of Modern British artworks proved a major highlight of a recent auction held by Kidson-Trigg (24% buyer’s premium) in Swindon.

Liquidation

Aldridges of Bath goes into liquidation after trading without a client account

13 October 2025

Auction house Aldridges of Bath has gone into liquidation owing more than £377,000.

Sapphire

The ‘£50 box of costume jewellery’ sold for £600,000 at auction

13 October 2025

There was some good old fashioned auction drama in Ruislip on October 7 when a loose sapphire hammered for £332,000, a house record for any of the Adam Partridge salerooms.

Fighting Stallions

Fighting Stallions set Mouseman auction record

13 October 2025

A new benchmark for a Mouseman carving has been set by Tennants’ 20th Century Design department.

Alms dish

Museum successful in bid to secure Russell alms dish

13 October 2025

The Gordon Russell Design Museum in Broadway, Worcestershire ran a successful campaign to purchase a Lygon brass alms dish by the English designer and craftsman that came to auction in West Sussex last week.

Violin

Einstein’s ‘Lina’ sets £860,000 house record

13 October 2025

Gloucestershire auctioneers Dominic Winter posted a new house record last week when a violin used by Albert Einstein during his late teens and early adult life hammered for £860,000.

De Morgan vase

Single-owner William De Morgan pottery collection takes flight at Guernsey auction

13 October 2025

Evans family collection of William De Morgan pottery brings keen interest at Martel Maides in St Peter Port

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Stubbe’s punishment remembered in paint

13 October 2025

Lot 586 at Henry Aldridge’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest sale was one of the more curious lots to appear at auction in recent times.

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Lockdown gardening hoard comes for sale

13 October 2025

A Tudor coin hoard found by a Hampshire couple while gardening will be sold at auction in Switzerland next month.

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Benchmarks set for ‘female gaze’ of Proctor and Dismorr

13 October 2025

While prices for the painter Dod Procter (1891-1972) have been rising over the last decade or so, a big jump in terms of her auction record came at Bonhams latest sale of works by Modern British women artists.

Portrait ring

Hero to radicals: Dealer's exhibition marks John Wilkes tricentennial

13 October 2025

The 300th anniversary of the birth of the English radical journalist and politician John Wilkes (1725-97) on October 17 is being marked by a small exhibition featuring items from the personal collection and stock of dealer Timothy Millett.

Edward Bawden's Sunday Times print

Great Bardfield property yields appealing group of modern prints to Sworders sale

13 October 2025

A single owner collection from a house in Great Bardfield, Essex provided a number of good quality prints to Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern and Contemporary art.

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Kollwitz relief evoked scenes of Allied bombing raids

13 October 2025

In the midst of the Second World War, the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) produced a series of small sculptural reliefs on the theme of mothers protecting their children.

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