East Midlands

Items belonging to the late comedian and entertainer Nicholas Parsons (1923-2020) are being unveiled at The Buxton Decorative Antiques & Art Fair in Derbyshire – the first ‘in person’ event of its type to take place in England this year.

With a lack of fairs during the pandemic and fewer scheduled in the near future, picture dealer Jeremy Green has taken the plunge and returned to running a physical gallery after 15 years of running his dealership from home and standing at fairs.

A portrait argued to be of author Emily Brontë is coming to auction this month.

A hoard of Romano-British bronzes discovered by metal detectorists in North Yorkshire last year will be offered at auction.

They sang about a Champagne Supernova but ‘24 large cans of quality lager’ were more to their taste when Oasis stipulated their needs for band and crew at an early gig.

“Due to our digital presence with our website, social media and the live virtual shopping tours I have been conducting all over the world my skeleton team of 10 staff have been kept extremely busy.”

This 22-carat gold and enamel egg was the largest of a baker’s dozen made by Garrard in 1983 for a treasure hunt organised by Cadbury’s.

This Victorian silver and enamel cigarette box is decorated to the lid with humorous scene from John Surtees’ Jorrocks, Jaunts and Jollities.

This copper alloy and champleve enamel brooch would once have graced the chariot of an Iron Age chieftain.

West Country-based fair organiser Cooper Events is targeting a late spring return following the government announcement that hospitality venues would be permitted to reopen indoors as part of ‘stage three’ of its timetable for easing Covid-19 restrictions in England.

Until its sale last year, Newbold Pacey Hall had been the seat of the Little family since the house was built by William Little in c.1780-90.

A row has erupted over the circumstances surrounding the auction of a collection of Modern British art in Derbyshire in December.

Influential Moses Harris work had made no appearance in auction records and sparked vibrant bidding at Hansons.

Theodolite and telescope made to high standards measure up in two salerooms

This Volvo PV 444 diecast toy is by the Swedish toy distributor Gösta Norén.

Golding Young & Mawer is to offer the untouched collection of a Warwickshire country house at the end of the month.

Tom Parry runs Chester’s Farm Antiques in Nottinghamshire and specialises in decorative arts, including ceramics, jewellery and silver.

A recent fine art auction at Hansons (25% buyer’s premium) included a once magnificent Qianlong (1735-99) copper-red and underglaze blue lantern vase.