Bonhams Knightsbridge: some milestones

Chiswick makes bold move to fill CSK vacuum

West London saleroom hires eight specialists for central London site

Niche specialists launch auction firm

A new auction house is to open in London hoping to

Reflections on the £390,000 ‘perfect storm’

A moment of good old-fashioned saleroom drama emerged

Met art crime unit closed due to Grenfell pressures

The Metropolitan Police’s Art and Antiques Unit is

De Pury ‘cut out of gentleman’s agreement’

A claim by former auctioneer turned art-advisor Simon

Pick of the Week: Roar power fuels medieval record

A pair of lions from the funerary monument of Charles

Bid Barometer – issue 2300

From thesaleroom.com

Guardi and Turner top Old Master sales

The latest Old Master sales in London put in a solid

News In Brief

Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the Friends of the

It takes two salerooms

Bonhams Knightsbridge is keen to assert its place in London’s evolving auction scene, managing director Jon Baddeley tells Laura Chesters and Noelle McElhatton

Meadows on organic growth

Dominic Winter auctioneer describes how sales have bloomed beyond usual markets

Rotating rarity turns heads in Wiltshire

Highly collectable in itself, this 1920s car showroom

Godwin connection makes big difference

Originally entered for a general sale at Charterhouse

Tiger displays bite as Kent tartanware checks in

One of the earliest examples of the lucrative tartan

Dealers duel for lecterns in college consignment

Entered by a leading UK college, two very similar pairs

Now is the winter of his content

Nevinson snowy view retaining Futurist style passes market test for his post-war works

…and Nevinson print impresses

Another work by CRW Nevinson (1889-1946) in the form

Buyers take latest coach in Hampshire

Over the last four months, a steady trickle of coaching

Truly impressive body of work

Vesalius medical classic sets a new high for a book sold at Vienna auction house Dorotheum

Beano takes magical turn

A further selection of children’s annuals from the

Catalan cruises in the Med…

Sold for £55,000 by Bonhams (25/20/12% buyer’s premium)

…Dutch discoveries in a world guarded by Spain and Portugal

…Dutch discoveries in a world guarded by Spain and

Wrighting record wrongs

In ATG No 2292, I noted as a record the £13,000 sale

Goya flop now a big sale seller

Preserved in a fine contemporary binding of crimson

Fifteen years a slave: a pirate prisoner

A June 16 sale at Lawrences (22% buyer’s premium) of

Previews: Up to £500

This Staffordshire pottery quill holder in the form

Previews: £501 - £2000

Pre-dating Beatlemania by several months, this early

Previews: £2001 - £5000

A hitherto unknown Doccia porcelain figure is a stand-out

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

A run of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack books, dating

Previews: £30,000 plus

A set of four hunting scenes by John Nost Sartorius

Birmingham barometer set ‘fair’

Antiques for Everyone tests market atmosphere to see what’s hot and what’s not

The gadget man

From the moustache spoon and the nose-shaping device

Evolution of a book business

Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson has opened an

Art appointment in Paris

Fleur Callegari (right) has joined the team of Les

5 Questions

Paul Kembery of Kembery Antique Clocks in the West

Birds and the boys are the facts of life in Edinburgh

The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh’s next pair of exhibitions

Fine Art Society appointments

Rowena Morgan-Cox, right, and Sara Terzi, below left

Contemporary art complements range of Cotswolds furniture

Original House, a Cotswolds dealership that specialises

Jades joy in summer Asian sales

Hardstones are hammer highlights in the June slice of biannual auctions in the French capital

Military scene generates bidding battle

At the Drouot auction centre in June around 3000 items

Christie’s in Paris pole position as first-half 2017 figures appear

Saleroom points out that private collections have been particularly strong during this period

Rare Lowestoft emerges at auction

Following a near sell-out auction of Lowestoft in March

BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

Jul 11 English Literature, History, Children’s &

Get your teeth into seaside treats

Vintage fair in the Yorkshire town famous for Dracula setting and other coastal delights

From Whitby down to Whitstable…

Pictured left is a sunny day at one of Cindy Mainwaring’s

I want it Hall: club’s annual fair

Held in Staffordshire this Saturday (July 15) is the

More from the seaside…

Collecting vintage posters has gone from a niche area

…vintage view of Redcoats

The Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising in

Oh, what a lovely war weekend

Looking at the images from Leyburn’s 1940s Weekend

My valuable ‘old friend’ vase also made a useful ashtray

MADAM – All of us who have been involved in the trade

Qualified response to the soapbox

MADAM – Your most recent Soapbox debated an interesting

Small fairs mean big value

MADAM – May we add our voice to the letters in ATG

Soapbox

Q Artist and restorer Amy Douglas recently unveiled

SOFAA 2017 in pictures

Biennial dinner brings auctioneers from out of town to London where rivalries are set aside in good cheerTemperatures are usually high in London when the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers (SOFAA) hosts its biennial dinner and this year was no exception. The heat outside didn’t dissuade attendees from donning black tie and high heels to the event at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in Knightsbridge on June 30.