Print Edition

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

MADAM – As a small volume trader in toys, games and collectables, I find your publication excellent, useful and informative. BUT I am becoming jaded with your headline policy.

Two fine examples of scrimshaw were eagerly contested at the David Duggleby (21% buyer’s premium inc VAT) Scarborough auction of maritime antiques and instruments.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Animalier bronzes will be on offer at Drouot in the coming weeks.

Auctioneer and valuer Michael J Stainer FSVA, based in Dorset, passed away peacefully on February 4, surrounded by his family.

A 49-lot sale of antiquities, Asian and tribal art from the collection of New York and Hollywood talent agent Jeff Hunter goes under the hammer at Freeman’s in Philadelphia on March 13.

It is a quarter of a century since ATG’s first overview of London’s numismatic auction market. Here we review the heads and the tails of 2018.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Kate Lee started the popular biannual antiques street market in the Suffolk town of Beccles 10 years ago and has now taken over a local monthly antiques and collectors’ fair.

More than 40 top dealers will set out their vetted stands at the annual long-running Wilton House Art and Antiques Fair.

Two owners of antiques and vintage businesses who buy extensively from fairs and markets in the UK are showcased here.

On Friday, February 18, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of $1318.00 / €1164.52 / £1027.64:

ATG’s selection of 11 coins and medals lots that were among the highlights sold at UK auctions in 2018.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

This Empire-period gilt throne or ceremonial chair, measuring 3ft 11in (1.2m) high and 2ft 3in (76cm) wide, is one of the highlights of an April 7 sale of historic artefacts and memorabilia titled l’Empire à Fontainebleau.

A unique example of Emile Gallé’s glasswork created as a special piece features in the 20th century decorative art sale held by Gros & Delettrez at Drouot on March 8.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period February 7-13, 2019. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

Given a surprising £200-300 estimate, a George IV brass and glass carriage clock was one of the stars of McTear’s (23% buyer’s premium) Glasgow sale on February 1.