Silver Spoons The many variations and styles of silver spoons, together with their long history, has created a rich collecting seam. Enthusiasts collect by type, function, by maker, by geographical ...

Beilby Glass Within the broader context of 18th century drinking glasses there are certain areas which form the basis of specialist collecting fields. One of these is Beilby glassware, a class mostly ...

A prop from the 1941 film Citizen Kane was hammered down at a record $11.5m ($14.75m including premi… ...

Royal Doulton Royal Doulton’s rise from London makers of domestic stonewares to an internationally-recognised Staffordshire Potteries brand, could scarcely have been predicted in 1877 when the Lambeth ...

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 ...

However, the Poole Pottery, as it became known, is now remembered as the maker of instantly recognisable Art Deco ware and the striking wares of the 1960s which marked it among the most innovative of ...

Military Medals Bringing a wealth of fascinating stories from Rorke’s Drift to the heroics of civilians in the Blitz, campaign medals and gallantry medals are one of the most instantly accessible of ...

A hammer price of £300,000 sounds like a pretty hefty sum for any print sold in the UK regions. But when it comes to the legendary Katsushika Hokusai’s (1760-1849) ‘Great Wave’, it’s actually a ...

Woolley & Wallis sold the first tranche of the private collection and stock of silver specialist Michael Baggott (1973-2025) on July 16. All but one of the 152 lots were sold with a hammer total of ...

Book dealership Sotheran’s is the latest victim of cyber criminals. The website of the rare books and prints firm was fraudulently cloned in Singapore using a variation… ...

A portrait of Mahatma Gandhi – believed to be the only oil painting for which the leader of the Indian independence movement sat – has sold for £120,000.

A group of prints tucked away in the basement of Kent County Council’s County Hall in Maidstone have sold at a Sworders auction. Comprising approximately 350 lithographs, linocuts, screenprints, ...