Tommy Cooper’s (1921-1984) ‘last fez’ appeared at Hansons in Woburn, Bedfordshire, doubling its estimate to fetch £7000 (plus 26.5% buyer’s premium). The story goes Cooper first adopted wearing a fez ...

From woodcuts to a design for Wedgwood plates, Women at War offers perspectives of war that are slightly less familiar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eggs like these don’t come around very often – indeed they’re ‘one in a billion’ according to Exeter… ...

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 ...

As ATG readers may recall from previous articles, when it comes to the works of the great ornithological artist Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) depictions of game birds tend to be the most commercial ...

That, at least, was the theory. In fact, relatively little Irish ‘provincial’ silver made the journey to the metropolis to receive official approval – for reasons of security and economy. It is a ...

Burmantofts Pottery was born out of James Holroyd’s architectural brickworks, taking advantage of the rich local deposits of both coal and clay. However, today, the church built in Shakespeare Street ...

The Fine Jewellery sale at Dreweatts in Newbury on March 19 includes this 1… ...

When they first came into use in the 1830s, friction matches were hazardous and could combust without warning, so vesta cases were something of a necessity. But as their production became more ...