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Lake District cabinetmaker and woodcarver Ernest John Oldcorn trained at Gillows of Lancaster but he found his niche after joining the Arthur W Simpson workshop.

Sales abound as annual event run by Cotswold dealers association returns to Chelsea

LAPADA has confirmed details and early exhibitor names for its autumn fair.

The March 3-4 sale at Chorley’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire, was topped by a good example of Qing imperial needlework: a yellow ground silk and metal thread cushion cover.

Building work is under way to create a 1000sq ft saleroom at Thomson Roddick Callan’s Auction Centre in Rosewell, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

Bidding competition breaks out in south London for Mannerist work discovered in a west London house

Roseberys’ Prints & Multiples auction on April 16 includes 56 lots from the collection of avant-garde artist Agathe Sorel (1935-2020) and her husband Gabor Sitkey, also a painter and textile designer.

Eighteen letters written by Beatrix Potter to an antiques dealer between 1933-43 come for sale in Nottingham this month.

This Georgian treen tobacco stopper or pipe tamper sold for £2900 at Hartleys in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

A young antiques dealer who specialises in vintage watches has opened a shop in the north Wales town of Holywell, in Flintshire.

Portrait of actress who mesmerised Hitchcock makes highest sum for the artist since 2020

Norwegian kjenge or kasa have been used for drinking ale at special occasions since the medieval period.

Books from a routine call proved disappointing until a first edition Dracula loomed into view

Natalia Rawley is a passionate antiques-hunter-gatherer and shares her loved possessions at home in Wiltshire with her four sons.

The centenary of the late queen’s birth on April 21, 1926, will be marked by the opening of an exhibition in the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace.