The timed online sale of Books & Manuscripts at Bonhams Knightsbridge that closed on March 20 included a pair of 17th century embroidered gauntlet gloves that reference one of the most famous – and ...
The two foes met again – this time at an auction at Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s in London They last faced one another almost 1000 years ago on the battlefield but, on March 12, Harold II and… ...
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. Offered at the Shrewsbury, Shropshire ...
From woodcuts to a design for Wedgwood plates, Women at War offers perspectives of war that are slightly less familiar ...
Eggs like these don’t come around very often – indeed they’re ‘one in a billion’ according to Exeter… ...
Welsh auction house Rogers Jones conducted its largest house clearance in over 30 years this month – the principal contents of Plas Teg in Flintshire. The Grade I listed house is considered one of ...
The British Art Market Federation (BAMF) has welcomed the government’s announcement of changes to the Temporary Admission ...
A shot fired in 1832 eliminated the last of the great bustard (otis tarda) in Great Britain. The lar… ...
A memento from one of the most famous rugby union matches of all time: the Barbarians versus New Zealand in 1973 will go under the hammer at Rogers Jones on April 10. The All Blacks were playing their ...
A previously unrecorded John Constable (1776-1837) landscape attracted strong bidding at North Yorkshire saleroom Tennants this weekend. Consigned to the Leyburn saleroom from a private family ...
The cigar case given as a token of appreciation for safely transporting General Espartero Baldomero to exile in England found plenty of admirers at Noonans The cigar case given by Spanish general ...
A British government red leather dispatch case belonging to the minister of state for colonial affairs achieved an above estimate price at a recent Bonhams’ timed sale. The late 50s and early 60s ...