Graffiti art and Arts & Crafts furniture

Antiques aren’t always about Victorian oak pedestal desks and Georgian antique dining tables, as a Lancashire dealer will verify; in fact, some of the objects at (more…)

Reporter tries hand at antique restoration

When reporter Samantha Castle visited a Snowdonia antique store, she experienced first-hand the hard work that goes into making an antique cabinet ready for sale – by (more…)

Substantial country house sale includes items with Pugin provenance

A collection of decorative objects designed and owned by Victorian architect Augustus Pugin were among the highlights of the Sworders spring country house sale. (more…)

Probate valuation turns up tribal treasure in Southsea

Sometimes, valuable antique dining tables can be can be found in the most unlikely of places – such as a run-down council flat near Petersfield.

Antiques auctioneer Martin Lawrence was expecting nothing more than a long drive when Jacobs & Hunt asked him to do a probate valuation on a dilapidated top floor council flat in Southsea, Portsmouth. However, what he found inside was an Aladdin’s cave of antique treasures, inherited from the deceased’s parents who had been successful dealers during the pre and post-war periods. (more…)

The collection of a preacher with an “unruly passion” for antiques

Rev. Peter J. Gomes was an acclaimed American Baptist minister and writer, who was also a prodigious collector of antiques. Just before Easter his entire collection, consisting of Victorian dining chairs , antique porcelain, fine art and other effects, was put under the hammer following his untimely death from a stroke in February. (more…)

Greek goat herder arrested over illegally excavated marble statue

Police have recovered a statue aged 2,500 years old from a goat pen near Athens, Greece, and placed the goat herder and an accomplice under arrest. It is alleged they were trying to sell the illegally excavated piece for half a million euros (around £415,000) – it is worth £10m. (more…)

After five years of wrangling – Brooke Astor estate sale to go ahead in September

antique desks, open bookcases and a large selection of canine artworks – these are just some of the lots which will be going under the hammer when Sotheby’s holds a sale of property from the estate of Brooke Astor in September. (more…)

Vanderbilt antiques included in Celia Lipton estate sale

antique cabinets and other items from the estate of British actress and philanthropist Dame Celia Lipton Farris have gone under the hammer in New York, including antiques which once belonged to the Vanderbilt family. (more…)

The boot sale WWII bargain worth £10,000

The ‘old submarine badge’ looked as if it wouldn’t be out of place hanging above an antique oak partners desk , so Philip McKeiver was happy to pay £90 for it whilst attending a village sale. (more…)

Miniature grand piano among antiques discovered by police

A £300,000 cache of antique jewellery and other rare valuables accidentally discovered by police in Scotland would grace any antique cabinet, but Lancashire viewers aren’t likely to see them popping up on Real Deal any time soon. (more…)