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Our new show on Broadway

23 June 2025

Lennox and Sue Cato tell us why they are making a move from Kent to the Cotswolds

Alan Turing's On Computable Numbers (1936–37)

Alan Turing's major papers sell for six-figure sum at auction

17 June 2025

A group of Alan Turing papers smashed estimates at auction in Lichfield.

Moorcroft premises

Founder's family buys back Moorcroft pottery and vows to return production to original site

16 June 2025

The stricken Moorcroft pottery business will have a member of the founder's family involved with the firm for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Eliot portrait on display in the museum

George Eliot portrait discovered at regional auction eight years ago comes to hometown museum  

12 June 2025

A rediscovered portrait of author George Eliot will go on display at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery.

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Feather brooch finds new owner after five-minute bidding battle

02 June 2025

This large diamond, sapphire and emerald peacock feather brooch was the highlight of a recent Fine Jewellery sale held at Fellows (25% buyer’s premium) in Birmingham.

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Shanghai municipal medal shoots past estimate in a popular collecting market

02 June 2025

A lot offering a Shanghai Municipal Jubilee Medal, November 17, 1893, proved so appealing that it sold at five times the top estimate.

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The 1932 Battle of Britain: Newcastle Utd v Rangers football programme nets £6500

26 May 2025

One-off football ‘super cup’ style ties are nothing new, as a very much in demand programme offered at Telford saleroom Mullock Jones (20.5% buyer’s premium) demonstrated.

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Excitement builds as Norman Wilkinson railway poster comes to auction

26 May 2025

Terence Cuneo’s 'Giants Refreshed' poster for the LNER showing Pacific steam locomotives 'In the Doncaster Locomotive Works' is a well-known work.

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Latest glass extravaganza graces West Midlands venue

05 May 2025

Glittering displays of glass will be on show at the upcoming Premier Fairs’ dedicated event at Himley Hall near Dudley in the West Midlands on Sunday, May 18.

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Education, education, education at Fellows

05 May 2025

The Jewellery department at Fellows Auctioneers in Birmingham is celebrating three new qualifications for its team.

Mayor of Solihull

Classic Antique Fairs takes a break in July but pledges to go ahead in November

02 May 2025

After a successful event at the NEC in March, Classic Antique Fairs has put a paused on its summer schedule

Stoneleigh fair

IACF closes Stoneleigh fair branding it ‘not financially viable’

29 April 2025

International Antiques and Collectors’ Fairs (IACF) has announced that its biannual Celebration of Antiques held at the National Agricultural and Exhibition Centre (NAEC) Stoneleigh will not be returning to the venue following its event at Easter.

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Get hooked on angling with the help of this specialist vintage tackle event

28 April 2025

More people than ever are getting hooked on angling, says the Angling Trust which reported that in 2023-24 as a result of participation events more than 43,000 people tried fishing for the first time.

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Reticulation adulation for Royal Worcester

28 April 2025

A large-scale work by Royal Worcester’s near-legendary craftsman George Owen (1845-1912) led a recent sale at Philip Serrell (20% buyer’s premium) in Malvern, Worcestershire.

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Spring in the step of exhibitors at the latest Classic Antique Fairs edition

14 April 2025

First event at this time of year generates encouraging feedback and a healthy string of sale successes

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Reformer and religious author later burnt at the stake

14 April 2025

Book was published by champion of Swiss Calvinism four years before he became a Protestant martyr

Silver Trinket Box National Trust

Silver box stolen from National Trust property

08 April 2025

The box was reported missing from Hanbury Hall in Worcestershire on March 23

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The language of love and loss

31 March 2025

Far more fluent than us in the language of jewellery and stones, Georgians and the Victorians would immediately have made the link between snakes and eternal love.

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Carafe inscription reveals connection to the Kit Kat Club

24 March 2025

An early 18th century onion-shaped decanter or carafe offered at Halls (24% buyer’s premium) in Shrewsbury was of particular interest for a point-engraved inscription to the body. It read 'The Kit Kat Club at the Fountain Tavern on the Strand'.

Emil Nolde watercolour

Emil Nolde watercolour sells for £29,000 at Halls

20 March 2025

A watercolour by the Expressionist painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956) which underwent a year-long authentication process drew a decent competition at Halls this week.

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