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 … ...

They did this to avoid the perils of travel and (after 1784) to escape paying duty in a region where a heathy distain for the Hanoverians persisted well into the 19 th century. Currently some 30 ...

The earliest collectors of firearms were probably monarchs intent on amassing armouries to demonstrate their wealth and power. They also became patrons, employing expert craftsmen to create better and ...

The PBFA has announced that the three new rare book fairs it launched earlier this year will continue next year as part of a full calendar of events. Fairs at Kirkby Lonsdale, Frome and Dorchester ...

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The form emerged in the early 18 th century, though the origin of the name is obscure. Chairs of this type were manufactured in large numbers in the Thames Valley in Buckinghamshire, and Windsor may ...

Oxfordshire auction house Mallams has hired Edmund Saddington its new Modern Art & Desi… ...

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

A rare copy of one of Rembrandt’s greatest portrait etchings established a new saleroom high for an Old Master print. Arnout Tholinx, Inspector is not the most famous work in Rembrandt’s printed ...

A chair dated to 1703 has been stolen from St Marys the Virgin Church in Gisburn, Lancashire. The wainscot chair was stolen sometime between November 9-15.

After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares. Long admired for ...