South-east England

An early leather-bound feather golf ball consigned for sale from a house move in Old Woking in Surrey comes for sale at John Nicholson’s in Haslemere on May 14.

Possibly a pair with Franklin, but saleroom unable to trace another example depicting Washington

Stands and side tables were a prominent feature in many large Georgian houses and were used for a variety of quite specific purposes. However, it is extremely rare to find a piece of furniture designed specifically to take a goldfish bowl.

A letter from Robert Falcon Scott – aka Scott of the Antarctic – came up for sale at Canterbury Auction Galleries (20% buyer’s premium) on April 11-14.

Julia Prentice of Cherish Vintage is launching her Midhurst Brocante on Saturday, May 3, at the Old Library in the West Sussex town.

What a difference three years and an estimate can make.

A recent sale at Burstow & Hewitt (20% buyer’s premium) in Battle, East Sussex was led by six Danish rosewood dining chairs designed by Niels Otto Moller for JL Moller.

Paul Nash, looking back at the 1924-25 period when he taught design at the Royal College of Art, said: “I was fortunate in being there during an outbreak of talent and can remember at least eight men and women who have made names for themselves since then in a variety of different directions.”

The Petersfield Antiques Fair is now in its 52nd year since the event’s dawn in the early 1970s.

The London-based design company Isokon, which produced furniture by Wells Coates and Marcel Breuer, and Gerald Summers’ firm Makers of Simple Furniture both explored the radical possibilities of lamination.

Sussex and Kent saleroom Gorringe’s begins a new chapter this month under full family ownership and new management.

A white-glove sale tells its own story about the health of a market

The sale at Bellmans (25% buyer’s premium) in Billingshurst, West Sussex on February 17 included a small silver gilt rococo-style cream jug of a type that remains something of an enigma.

The Fine Jewellery sale at Dreweatts (26% buyer’s premium) in Newbury on March 19 included two quite different lots from the subcontinent - and both were well received.

Two very different works offered in Oxford now have new owners from Australia and continental Europe

Sussex and Kent auction house Gorringe’s begins a fresh chapter next month under full family ownership and new management.