Featonbys moves to Newcastle

Château attic find sets vintage Chanel record

A ‘Russian’ tunic from Chanel’s famed Spring 1922 collection

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Precious metals

On Friday, November 25, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

Cooper Goblet spotted by dealer at auction

An Arts & Crafts goblet soared over estimate

News in Brief

The latest auctions of Modern and Contemporary art

Dealer solves Staffordshire crime mystery

Dealer Damon Revans-Turner of RTS Antiques in Liverpool

Chiswick’s autumn starters for 10

Chiswick Auctions has been busy recruiting since the

Gasketeers keep city’s lamps in the spotlight

The London Gasketeers, a group led by dealers Luke

New Duncan Grant top sum for a ‘divisionist’ Bell

Setting a major record for Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

London Art Week puts on winter show with a Zoffany performance

London Art Week (LAW) has decided it will go ahead

Summers finds his place in the sun

British Modernist designer’s inter-war plywood creations are now seen as pioneering works

Lalique glass sails in as poster collector goes Forth

Lalique glass and Travel & Vintage Posters

Maidens version of seven classic Crane vases

Walter Crane (1845-1915) designed seven red lustre

Zsolnay glaze perfected after his Parisian days

The most desirable of the varied wares produced by

Is Small now hitting the big time?

Record set for once well-established female artists suggests her work is sought after again

A £24,000 bid leads the Edwards hunt

Among a number of sporting pictures generating decent

Compton climbs well above guide

Mountainous scenes by Edward Theodore Compton (1849-1921)

Georghiou: from law to draw

George Pol Georghiou (1901-72) is a well-known name

Kepler manuscript’s star value

Calculations on planetary movements rise to the occasion in New York saleroom

A natural history work to leaf through at your leisure

A few copies have made a little more, but the example

German book from 1500 cooks up a storm at auction

Offered as part of an October 25-27 series of sales

A pick of Purdey

Chris Wynne dedicated his collecting energies to early guns by a London maker that became an international brand. Roland Arkell reports as his remarkable collection is sold at auction.

Set sail and roll out the seven barrels

On account of its extraordinary appearance, the Nock

Stroud pepperbox adds spice on home soil

The Stroud engineer Edwin Beard Budding (1796-1846)

British pistols owned by American patriot

A pair of ornate presentation flintlock pistols made

High-tech early breech loaders broke new ground

At first glance this early 18th century British-made

Get your two hands on a mighty sword

Top result from the October 26 arms and armour auction

Abijah’s powder horn shows Ranger value

A ‘Siege of Louisbourg’ powder horn (below) belonging

Coin purse gives you bang for your buck

This Victorian purse gun was designed by Oscar Frankenau

Case for the defence

Estimated at just £60-90, this English Civil War-era

Buckler purchase from Portobello

Once thought to have been made in antiquity, bucklers

Previews

John Constable’s drawing of a tree overhanging a stream

It’s the final countdown to 2023

The high-spending end of the year is a particularly busy time for art and antiques dealers

5 Questions

Andy Shield is co-founder of Brave Fine Art which focuses

The web shop window

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

A taste of Olympia: Buteux sauceboat buy

A silver sauceboat made in London, 1731, a scarce remaining

Merchant takes BADA role

The BADA Friends has appointed Nicholas Merchant (right)

Timing was picture perfect

Staging a photo collection sale just as specialist fair opened proved a great choice

Auction benefits from constructive thinking

Another Paris auction firm busy on the photographic

The original and authoritative sales listing

This is a calendar of art, antiques and general auctions

Artist’s Resale Right

Advertisements in Antiques Trade Gazette may mention

Outside move kept us on the map

‘Zero profit’ but classic arms fair got through Covid and has 220 stands at the next event

Toys, teddy bears and dolls fest is back – three years on

To quote toys specialist supremo Daniel Agnew, ex-Christie’s

Holy acceptable price tag

Small is indeed beautiful for traders at two redundant

Weird and wonderful buys at Shepton Mallet

Some lucky youngsters were among the attendees at IACF’s

That £20 cost is down to the new Ivory Act charges

I have just entered an early 19th century portrait

Barking up the wrong tree

I believe the Bugatti sculpture pictured in ATG No

Thoughts on damp issues

Re: use of dehumidifiers in old stonebuilt houses (Letters

Fall on a high after jewellery accolades

Tennants’ jewellery specialist, Jessica Fall, has not

Will it be going, going gone in December…?

An increasingly hairy group of staff at Newbury auction

Obituary – Peter Delehar

It is with the greatest sadness, that his family has