A Clarice Cliff vase, featured on the cover of the Charterhouse April auction catalogue sold for a high hammer price of £5,800.
“The vase was a true piece of Art Deco geometric design boldly decorated in black and orange.” Commented Richard Bromell. “The vase was certainly the talk of the trade, it featured not only on […]

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is seeking public donations to its Jewellery Appeal – unwanted jewellery, medals and collectables are all welcome to help fund the charity’s life-saving work.
The ongoing Jewellery Appeal is now entering its 22nd year. Some of the more unusual past donations include: a set of dentures on gold mount, war […]

Rothschild, the French M&A firm advising on the sale of British Energy, has set a May 9 date for bidders to submit offers for the nuclear-power-plant operator, people familiar with the matter tell Deal Journal, confirming a report today in the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper. Another person cautioned that there already have been a number of […]

On Thursday 1st May, when you list using the Auction-style format in eligible categories, Insertion Fees will be reduced to just 5p for each item you list.
Final Value and feature fees are not included in this promotion.
eBay is holding the promotion on the same day sellers plan to boycott the site in protest of feedback […]

Highlights included lot 23 which was a History of Mr Babbage’s Calculating Engines by Charles Babbage, Luigi Menabrea and Augusta Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s mathematician daughter! This made a huge £19000 against its estimate of £2000-3000. The architectural works of Rudolph Ackerman always prove popular and lot 112 A History of the University of Cambridge […]

John Lennon’s lyrics for Give Peace a Chance are to be offered for sale at a London auction.
The lyrics were given to teenage fan Gail Renard during one of his famous “Bed-In” peace protests with his wife Yoko Ono in a Montreal hotel room in 1969.
The lyrics, along with a number of personal photos, are […]

H&H will be travelling to another new venue for its next sale on June 8th 2008. Situated just minutes from Guildford town centre, Loseley House was built at the instruction of Queen Elizabeth I in 1562 and visited by Her Majesty several times thereafter. Within easy reach of the M25 motorway, Guildford mainline railway station […]