A Chinese bowl, estimated at a few hundred pounds, sold for just under £10,000, including buyers premium, when it went under the Charterhouse hammer in Sherborne on Friday 12th September.
Bidding for the Chinese bowl which is decorated panels painted figures and landscapes, started at £2,000 and then slowed up at £4,000 when a bank of [...]

Bonhams will be auctioning the contents of the Cotswold antiques firm H.W Keil.
Over 800 lots of fine furniture, clocks, paintings, books and textiles will be offered as part of A Cotswold Legacy 1932-2008: The Property of H.W Keil on Saturday 25 October 2008. The sale will take place in the grounds of the premises, which [...]

A bidder bought a digital camera or £17 which is said to contain images of terror suspects. The Foreign Office has confirmed that the matter is being probed by police.
Officers have now made five visits to the buyers home in the last week to quiz him and his family, according to The Sun newspaper.
A friend [...]

The next Vectis Military, Civilian Figures and Equipment Sale will be held on Tuesday November 11th, and will include a wide and varied selection of hollowcast, solid cast, flats, modern issues, printed ephemera from many British, European and US Makers and will feature a large and comprehensive collection of early, rare and desirable plastics.
Auction info [...]

The Washington Gallery Welsh Art Auction is a much-anticipated event in the Welsh arts’ calendar. Earlier this spring, the previous auction attracted the attention of the national media and was very well attended by eager collectors.
The Welsh Art Auction has attracted market value prices for leading international contemporary figures such as Will Roberts, Kyffin Williams [...]

eBay has announced that it will make a new mobile application – eBay Mobile – available for iPhone and iPod Touch users in Europe. The new free applications give Apple users the freedom to bid, buy and pay for items directly from their mobile devices. Currently available in the U.S., eBay Mobile is among the [...]

The early 15th Century alabaster sculpture sold for £7,500, excluding commission, at Dreweatts Auctioneers in Nottingham on September 25th
Richard Madley of Dreweatts said it was an unusual find: “I knew it was rare as soon as I saw it.
“Nottingham sculptures just don’t turn up that often – especially in cosy country cottages,” he said.

The brooch was a highlight of Bonhams’ Sale of Fine Jewellery in London on September 25.
The art deco sapphire and diamond clip brooch, made in around 1935, had been expected to auction for between £12,000 and £15,000.
Designed in the form of the letter J, it includes multiple old brilliant-cut and baguette-cut diamonds, five oval-cut sapphires [...]

The University of Wolverhampton will begin offering the first ever UK course in auctioneering and valuation next February.
Charles Smailes, chairman of the National Association of Auctioneers and Valuers, said the course was an excellent opportunity for those hoping to get into the trade.
He said: ‘This is a wonderful opportunity for students already working in the [...]

IMPORTANT SALE OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AUTOGRAPHS AND EPHEMERA at Ludlow Racecourse, on Thursday September 25th
The Mullock’s sale covers a wide range of historical documents from early medieval up to the present day.
Mullock’s Specialist Auctioneers & Valuers
The Old Shippon,
Wall under Haywood,
Church Stretton,
Shropshire,
SY6 7DS
Telephone +44 (0) 169 477 1771
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Christopher Mellenchip, 44, of Top Road, Trefriw, Wales, pleaded guilty to selling the skull of a harbour porpoise skull at Llandudno magistrates court.
Under European rulings on the trading of endangered animals, it is prohibited to sell a “worked” (ie altered or decorated) part of an endangered animal which died after 1947 without a DEFRA certificate.

On 20 October, Christie’s will present the 7th edition of The Italian Sale in its historical salerooms in London. This annual auction will offer an exceptional selection of twentieth century Italian Art by the most renowned and internationally sought-after artists including Alberto Burri, Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Mario Merz and Pino Pascali. The sale [...]

Sotheby’s historic and ground-breaking two-day auction of new works by Damien Hirst realised a combined total for the entire two-day auction to the remarkable sum of £111,464,800 (US$200,752,179/€140,160,487), well in excess of its high estimate (est. £68-98 million).
Following the conclusion of the sale today, Damien Hirst said: “I think the market is bigger than anyone [...]

Tuesday 23rd September 2008 at Roman Way, Market Harborough, Leicestershire LE16 7PQ
Viewing Times
Wednesday 20th February 2008, 9:00 – 12:00
Monday 22nd September 2008, 9:00 – 16:00
Tuesday 23rd September 2008, 9:00 – 9:45
Auction info www.gildings.co.uk

A white marble bust of Ranjit Singh sculpted in India around 1900 is to sell for £50,000 to £70,000 at Bonhams next Indian and Islamic Sale on 6 October.
Clare Penhallurick, Head of Indian and Islamic Art at Bonhams, comments: “Bonhams is delighted to offer this magnificent sculpture for sale, particularly as last year we [...]