Cheshire

The first day of the December 10-12 sale at Adam Partridge in Macclesfield, Cheshire, included a 2in (5cm) high Fabergé jewelled agate model of a cockerel or rooster.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including QC Auctions opening in Blakemere Village near Northwich

Charles Robert Ashbee’s pseudo medieval wirework silver and glass jugs and bottles rank among the Guild of Handicraft’s finest work.

Müller & Kadeder is not such a recognised name of the German toy market such as Märklin, Bing or Lehmann.

Just 30 figures from single owner collection offered in Cheshire saleroom rack up nearly £60,000 total

The long-running Chester Fair is now the Cheshire Decorative Antiques & Art Fair, a name chosen to underline its position as the only major antiques fair in the county.

As the Depression took hold, the clamour for luxury goods in tropical hardwoods, silver and shagreen was replaced by a demand for less expensive consumer goods that combined the modern aesthetic with new materials and industrial production.

The latest Chester Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair will be the seventh for Cooper Fairs since the event was taken over from Penman Fairs in 2019.

Event originally put on hold will be restaged from next summer – but the one-dayer will also remain

Pictured here are two lots of seat furniture that impressed bidders in recent auctions in Gloucestershire and Cheshire.

A football medal sold at a Cheshire auction house was so early in date that it was only the 13th time the FA Cup final had been contested, the game was played at Kennington Oval and the opposition was a Scottish team.

The Cheshire showground event run by Arthur Swallow includes plenty of conversation starters.

This medieval document with a royal seal attached amounts to a pardon granted by Henry IV (1367-1413) to John Barlawe of the manor of Barlow in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy (now suburban Manchester).

When the (Louis) Marx toy company produced a friction-drive model Batmobile in the 1960s the plastic car that resulted was really a model of the 1951 General Motors Le Sabre concept show car designed by Harley Earl.