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 ...

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 ...

Antiquities specialist Kallos Gallery is closing after 12 years as its founder is switching his interest to new projects. The ...

A rare ‘three by one’ number plate tailor made for any successful auctioneer comes for sale in Herefordshire. When bidding closes on the evening of Sunday, December 14, LOT 2 is expected to sell for ...

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 … ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Art and antiques saleroom Truro Auction Centre has been put up for sale as a going concern after 35 years in business. Martyn Rowe, the owner and auctioneer of the firm in Redruth, plans to take a ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of two Old Masters selling well beyond their estimates at sales across the Atlantic ...

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 ...