Rackham art originals deliver deluxe qualities

This copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of

Portobello Road dealers set for further disruption in arcade refurb

Further disruption will hit dealers on Portobello Road

Clocks

English portable timepieces carried off by eager buyers

Work confirmed as Constable Cornfield study is up for sale

A previously unknown study for The Cornfield by

Huge comics collection comes to light after Stockholm basement discovery

An archive of over 90,000 comic books amassed

Liquidation auction disperses stock from first Pimlico Road antiques shop Ossowski

Longstanding Pimlico Road dealer Ossowski is thought to

Campi now joins Essex saleroom Sworders

Indian and Islamic Art specialist Beatrice Campi has

Newcastle museum targets Trafalgar flag purchase

North East Museums (NEM) has announced it is

Bullock table boasts quite a tale

A Regency table that probably featured in George

Precious metals

On Thursday, March 19, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

Grenyer promoted to department head

Woolley & Wallis valuer Neil Grenyer has been

Alert after church silver is stolen

A large amount of silver objects has been

Bruce and Garnett boost Gorringe’s

James Bruce has joined Sussex auction house Gorringe’s

Diamond pleasers at two salerooms

Two items of diamond jewellery achieved record sums

Fenzoni drawing fires up professor’s selection

The specialist sale of Prints & Works on

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The most clicked-on stories for week March 12-18

In Numbers

$14.55m The premium-inclusive price (or £10.91m) paid for

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Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Your carriage awaits

Inspired by developments across the Channel, 19th century English clockmakers quickly adopted this the portable timepiece known as the carriage clock. Today the finest examples from the 19th and early 20th century are in strong demand. Richard Fox reports.

How complicated can it be – making the perfect watch

If the period from the 19th to early

Pedometer rarity makes the running

The Special Antiques Sale at TW Gaze (22%

Lantern clock and case reconnected

A private collection of 17th century lantern and

Chinese market marvel

Very little is known about the late-18th century

English and Turkish delights in Skipton

A longcase clock from the English Golden Age

Breguet and Cartier bring Paris into the limelight

While London throughout the 19th and early 20th

Auction previews

Discovered as a ‘box of bits’ in the

Tankards toasted as ‘a real pleasure’

Specialist from west London saleroom delighted to handle not one but two Newcastle rarities in a year

Write up your street in Edwardian days

Edwardian silver and enamel desk set, £3300 at

Bidders see the point of needlework

needlework panel of Rebecca at the Well ,

From a famous Sèvres service

Pieces from a Sèvres Empire period service given

So much more than just a lighter

Bourne End Auctions (17.5% buyer’s premium) in Buckinghamshire

Famous for grand portraits, now de László shows a more intimate side

Paintings of youngsters prove popular but provide a looser, less formal and spontaneous appeal

Gladstanes covers not wartime glory but the less glamorous side

Rissoles for the Marines , an oil on

Alexander the great traveller

Sketchbooks outlining the journeys extraordinary for even a Victorian military man and explorer

Books, maps and works on paper in auctions on thesaleroom.com

Previews

Part of the private art collection of Michael

Descheemaeker the dealmaker

Whether it’s at a hotel, a restaurant or even in a car, he secures sales without an actual fair presence

We are taking a break from TEFAF Maastricht for a year but will be back

Galerie Bel Etage of Vienna took a year

British trophies win big in the US

High quality sporting cups for Cowes Week yachting and Indian horse racing sell to American bidders

Icart print given beauty treatment

Louis Icart’s 1931 print Two Beauties , $9000

Buffalo Bill postcard backs up poster sale

A hitherto unknown c.1902 lithographic poster for Buffalo

Advertising board and epergne shoot to high sums

1846 silver epergne by Hunt & Roskell, $14,000

Morse made it as a professional artist not just co-creator of code

Samuel FB Morse (1791-1872) is today best known

The original and authoritative sales listing

This is a calendar of art, antiques and

A new venture expected to grow

Organiser launches innovative event in west London that focuses on antiques with a botanical theme

Airliner scrap parts taken to another level

Commercial airliner parts once destined for the scrapyard

Octopus 1: that vase looks like Japanese banko ware

ATG No 2735. Re: ‘Mystery octopus vase holds

Octopus 2: a ‘ridiculous’ act

I’m really sorry to hark back to the

Rostrum doesn’t rise to the occasion

Alex Capon’s article on Christie’s new auction rostrum

Reuters reveals identity of elusive street artist Banksy

For more than 25 years, some people in