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Cartier’s aquamarine jewellery appears to have been predominantly produced from the London workshop starting in 1932.

Based between London and Oxfordshire, Haveron Fine Art operates as an online-only gallery with in-person viewings available upon request. Xander Haveron-Jones is the proprietor.

While Whitby jet was particularly fashionable during the reign of Victoria, it had been a popular material for jewellery from the Romano British period onwards.

In the 1920s-30s, the Scottish-born goldsmith Sybil Dunlop (1889- 1968) presided over a workshop in London’s Kensington Church Street dressed in a kaftan and Russian fur boots.

Cooper Events is about to oversee its second visit to Harrogate in 2025: The Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair from June 13-15.

Bonhams’ London Jewels sale on June 5 features a spectacular Cartier turquoise and diamond tiara that comes by descent from Nancy, Viscountess Astor (1879-1964).

The first clockwork robot with a walking action appeared at Hartleys (20% buyer’s premium) in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, on April 5.

Art and antiques trail will be launched in the picturesque West Sussex town with a view to being a regular fixture

Dealers Douglas and Brett Coupar-Fleming have spent the past year renovating a former department store in the seaside town of Leven on the east coast of Scotland.

This skeleton of an extinct cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) sold for £17,000 in Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) Natural History and Taxidermy Sale.

This large diamond, sapphire and emerald peacock feather brooch was the highlight of a recent Fine Jewellery sale held at Fellows (25% buyer’s premium) in Birmingham.

Event generates decent sales and a lively atmosphere during a busy weekend overall for collectors and dealers

Talk of ‘mammoth’ sales usually entails a sizeable selection of lots.

Among the highlights of a recent jewellery sale held by Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford was this mid-to late-19th century amethyst parure.

A medieval timber-framed townhouse that hosts the Gloucester Antiques Centre has recently been restored by heritage specialists.

A lot offering a Shanghai Municipal Jubilee Medal, November 17, 1893, proved so appealing that it sold at five times the top estimate.

A previously unrecorded Elizabethan gold signet ring, a gift from the influential Tudor financier and merchant, Sir Thomas Gresham (1519-79), comes for sale at Noonans on June 17.

This Victorian acrostic gold, hardstone and paste necklace, probably made in Rome c.1890, sold for £3800 (estimate £2000-3000) at Olympia Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) Jewellery & Watches sale on May 22.