The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a desk used by JRR Tolkien during the final revisions to the Lord of the Rings trilogy selling at Christie's ...
Art and antiques saleroom Truro Auction Centre has been put up for sale as a going concern after 35 years in business. Martyn ...
A desk used by JRR Tolkien during the final revisions to the Lord of the Rings trilogy has sold at auction in London for £260 ...
The manuscript journal of Captain John Narbrough (1640-88) has been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a UK institution can raise the more than £800,000 needed. The journal details his ...
An export block has been issued for a Battle of Trafalgar Union flag in the hope a UK institution will raise the £450,000 needed to keep it in the country. Nelson was among the first naval commanders ...
Christie’s posted projected global sales of $6.2bn (£4.65bn) for 2025 while Sotheby’s reported a figure of $7bn (£5.25bn). Sotheby’s annual results were boosted by the most valuable collection of the ...
Antiquities specialist Kallos Gallery is closing after 12 years as its founder is switching his interest to new projects. The ...
A Magnolia pattern floor lamp has become the most expensive Tiffany Studios lamp to sell at auction. Following a 10-minute bidding battle, it hammered for $3.6m (£2.7m) at Sotheby’s New York on ...
Location, location, location. Just as with property, so with the pictures of Suffolk’s own Leonard Russell Squirrell (1893-1979). A group of works by the Ipswich born artist that emerged recently at ...
Oxfordshire auction house Mallams has hired Edmund Saddington its new Modern Art & Desi… ...
A dealer and estate agents are to open an auction house in Cheshire in the new year. Founded by an antiques dealer with auction house experience, his family, and two estate agents, the … ...
Works by the multi-faceted Scottish wood-engraver, book illustrator, painter and teacher Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980) come to the market only occasionally, and when they do emerge they are almost ...