Christie’s Hanham Court sale is to be held at Christie’s South Kensington on Wednesday, 14 April 2010. Immersed in the world of antiques from a young age, Isabel and Julian Bannerman first met in Edinburgh in 1982 and have been collecting together ever since.
The sale will consist of approximately 300 lots with estimates ranging from [...]
ISA will host a Conference April 30-May 3 with Museum tours and seminars by noted authorities in the fields of Fine Art, Antiques and Residential Contents and Gems & Jewelry
(Toronto, Canada) The International Society of Appraisers will celebrate its thirtieth birthday with an in depth three pronged Conference in Toronto on April 30-May 3. The [...]
Dr Starkey is amongst a host of prominent public figures supporting the campaign, launched by The Art Fund charity, to raise the £3.3m needed by 17 April to save this awe-inspiring find of Anglo-Saxon treasure for Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery and the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent.
The Art Fund’s new Director, Dr [...]
Bonhams London jewellery department has had their most successful year ever. The recent sale, The Art of Jewels: Fine Jewellery and Iconic Gems, proved the enduring attraction of rare and beautiful jewelled items, despite the economic downturn. The sale achieved £2.2 million and was dominated by private buyers (71%) seeking the perfect Christmas gift or [...]
Bonhams raised an exceptional total of £666,468 at yesterday’s Fine British & European Glass & Paperweights Sale. With 86.35% of lots sold by value, this sale generated widespread interest from collectors and enthusiasts and included an array of British, Venetian and Dutch glass alongside a magnificent collection of paperweights.
The highlight of the sale was [...]
Rarely does a Musical Instrument Auction provide so much choice for the collector and the musician. There is hardly any part of any orchestra not represented in the Bonhams Auction on 15 December when some 400 lots will be offered.
The entertainment opportunities for Baroque –to- Rock melody, rhythm, ceremony and cacophony are variously represented [...]
An early collection of ’silver religious ornaments’ from the Ashkenazi Plymouth Hebrew Congregation’s synagogue built in 1762, the oldest in the English-speaking world, sold at Bonhams on 25th November for £175,000.
This earliest and rarest set of 14 lots of silver prayer instruments was estimated to sell for £100,000, but instead took a staggering 175,000. These [...]
The world-famous Hoffmeister Collection was assembled over the last 40 years by two German brothers who have a passion for this rare 18th-century porcelain. Considered one of the finest collections of Meissen in the world, for the past ten years it has been on view at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, one [...]
A collection of important Renaissance medals formed by leading New York dealer-collector Lawrence R. Stack will be sold by specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden in London on December 9 2009. The medals will be sold without reserve and are expected to raise a total of around £2 million.
The sale represents the most important offering of [...]
Excitement surrounds the discovery and sale of a tiny iron casket that sold for a jaw dropping £10K at a local auction.
The 8cm wide iron casket was discovered by Chief Valuer Adrian Rathbone of Richard Winterton Auctioneers in Lichfield in a box of junk. The box of ‘junk’ had been consigned from a local [...]
