The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the attic contents of Powderham Castle and Brocklesby Park heading to auction The attic contents of … ...

A consignment of historic material relating to Abraham Lincoln drew extensive interest at Freeman's Hindman in Chicago on May 21. The sale included a pair of the gloves that posted an auction record ...

It was a bumper weekend for collectors and dealers of antiquarian books with Firsts and the London Rare & Antiquarian Book Fair both gracing the capital.

A Military Cross awarded to an officer who served on the Western Front and later played professional football for Tottenham Hotspur has been bought by the club at auction. Scottish officer James Ross ...

The Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD) has urged dealers to work together in the face of rising costs. As part of its bi-annual membership survey, the dealer association encourages its members to be ...

A group of eight antiquities have been returned to Peru following an intervention by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L Bragg Jr. The DA’s office recovered the pieces from “multiple ongoing ...

With estimates from £3000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

Auction house Freeman's Hindman is offering an extensive collection of historic materials relating to US President Abraham Lincoln. Billed as ‘one of the most important Lincoln collections ever ...

Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

That, at least, was the theory. In fact, relatively little Irish ‘provincial’ silver made the journey to the metropolis to receive official approval – for reasons of security and economy. It is a ...

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 ...