South-east England

Among the most eye-catching pictures that emerged at the summer auctions around the country were a couple of early 20th century portraits of young women.

Established last year, a vintage and antiques fair which ran at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley is relocating to Lillibrooke Manor in Cox Green, Maidenhead, due to the museum’s permanent closure last month.

West End art dealer Liss Llewellyn has teamed up with Modern British art museum Pallant House Gallery for a show of paintings of artists.

A museum show on war artist and poet Thomas Hennell (1903-45), marking the 80th anniversary of his death, has been put together with the help of Modern British art dealer Andrew Sim of Sim Fine Art.

Visitors will be packing the aisles at Grandma’s Attic’s antiques and collectors’ fair at Woking Leisure Centre on Sunday, October 5, where among the 160 confirmed stallholders, 30-plus are selling specifically Art Deco and Nouveau plus Mid-century stock.

Peter Green’s lyrics for 'Man Of The World' sell at regional auction house

Your Letters pages have recently featured the elaboration of two items purchased from the “contents of a Sussex manor house” auctioned by Burstow & Hewett of Battle, East Sussex, on May 28-29: a Tudor oak stool and a coquilla nut snuffbox depicting Benjamin Franklin (see Auction Reports, ATG No 2702 and Letters, No 2704 & 2706).

“We’ve had a good year,” said Clive Baker, organiser of the biannual two-day South of England Postcard Fair run on behalf of the Postcard Traders Associatiom (PTA).

Following the recent trend of 18th and 19th century helmets making strong prices at auction, this striking example hammered at £5200.

A new auction house focused on petroliana and advertising has launched in Hampshire with its first sale planned for October.