London


A market stall full of colourful poster art

London fleamarket: take it to the bridge

27 March 2026

Christian Scrimgeour of Flea London in Vinegar Yard and Flat Iron Square is returning to canalside Hackney Bridge for her permanent weekend fleamarket.

img_26-4.jpg

Chinese art firm shuts its London gallery but duo will carry on operating in the trade

27 March 2026

Priestley & Ferraro closed the doors to its London gallery permanently on March 23 and ceased trading on March 31.

World championship match 1972

The Arbiter’s Archive: Sotheby’s to auction extraordinary chess collection

25 March 2026

In the world of chess, few names command as much quiet authority as Lothar Schmid.

Red teapot sign

Portobello Road dealers set for further disruption in arcade refurb

20 March 2026

Further disruption will hit dealers on Portobello Road with plans for a “comprehensive refurbishment” of one of the street’s antiques arcades.

Regency table

Pick of the week: Bullock table boasts quite a tale

20 March 2026

A Regency table that probably featured in George Bullock’s ‘Finished Stock’ dispersal of 1819 sold for £80,000 (plus 26.5% buyer’s premium) at Sloane Street Auctions just over two centuries later.

Fantastic Four #1

Huge comics collection comes to light after Stockholm basement discovery

20 March 2026

An archive of over 90,000 comic books amassed over five decades by an “eccentric collector and publisher” and unearthed in a Stockholm basement is being sold via a series of auctions held by Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s (SGB).

Red chalk drawing by Ferraù Fenzoni

Fenzoni drawing fires up professor’s selection

20 March 2026

The specialist sale of Prints & Works on Paper at Forum Auctions in London on March 31 includes nine lots from the collection of the late Prof David Davies (1937-2022), an expert in Spanish Old Masters.

img_15-4.jpg

Newcastle silver tankards toasted as ‘a real pleasure’ by west London auctioneer

20 March 2026

Specialist from west London saleroom delighted to handle not one but two Newcastle rarities in a year

Mary Anning letter

Dorset museum launches fundraising campaign for letter from pioneering fossil hunter Mary Anning

20 March 2026

The Lyme Regis Philpot Museum has launched a fundraising campaign in the hope it can secure a letter fragment written by the English fossil collector and palaeontologist Mary Anning (1799-1847). It is being offered at a Bonhams auction this month.

img_11-1.jpg

How complicated can it be – making the perfect watch

20 March 2026

If the period from the 19th to early 20th century was the ‘golden age’ for carriage clocks, it was equally a superb age for pocket watches

Organiser launches event in west London focusing on antiques with a botanical theme

20 March 2026

Judy Berger of Judy’s Vintage Fair, which runs vintage furniture and fashion fairs and fleamarkets across the UK, with a focus on London, is launching something unusual: The Kensington Botanical Market.

11 Mar Ring On Model (1)

Record prices for diamond jewels at UK auctions

19 March 2026

Two items of diamond jewellery achieved record sums for UK salerooms Duke’s and Elmwoods this week.

Studiolo fair

Studiolo announces second staging

19 March 2026

The second edition of the London fair Studiolo has been announced.

Ossowski 83 Pimlico Road

Pimlico Road dealer Ossowski closes with on-the-premises insolvency auction

18 March 2026

Longstanding Pimlico Road dealer Ossowski is thought to have closed with a liquidation auction held on the premises.

The National Army Museum

Lord Ashcroft's medal collection to be displayed at National Army Museum

18 March 2026

Lord Ashcroft’s collection of Victoria Crosses and George Crosses, the largest of its kind in the world, is to have a new home at the National Army Museum in west London.

battle scene painting

Bidding battle: Old Master brings fierce competition in Wimbledon

17 March 2026

A dramatic competition came for a Mannerist battle scene that emerged at Wimbledon Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) two-day sale on March 2-3.

Ardbraccan House

Former Christie’s specialist-turned antiques dealer sells Irish country house contents at auction

17 March 2026

Serena Williams-Ellis, a former Christie’s specialist who became an antiques dealer then interior designer, owned and decorated Ardbraccan House in County Meath, Ireland for the past decade.

img_3-3.jpg

Kossoff's swimming pool makes a splash in strong Modern British line-up

13 March 2026

Works by Modern British artists dominated the latest series of Modern and Contemporary art auctions in London.

img_18-2.jpg

Former dealer’s remarkable Oscar Wilde collection takes four times the estimated total

13 March 2026

The Oscar Wilde Collection formed over 60 years by bibliophile and former dealer in Oriental antiques Jeremy Mason prompted collectors to come out in force and was 100% sold at Bonhams (28/27% buyer’s premium) in Knightsbridge.

img_23-1.jpg

Cotswolds showcase comes to London for the second time

13 March 2026

Second CADA Fair held in the capital also acts as a advert for the region

News

Categories