Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Panini also a World Cup winner in 1970 – plus Newton Heath trade card
15 January 2024The 1970 World Cup was the breakthrough year for Panini.
Wedding textile takes 144 times its top estimate
15 January 2024A 19th century silk weaving sold for a surprise £26,000 in East Sussex.
Ruskin pottery factory collection in demand
15 January 2024An extensive collection of pottery that came from the original Ruskin factory was in demand at Dreweatts.
Gobelins pietra dura panel picked out at six figures at Paris auction
15 January 2024It was in the hope of saving on the huge sums spent procuring works of art from abroad that Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s minister of finance, began inviting craftsmen to work at the Gobelins royal manufactory on the outskirts of Paris.
Pick of the week: Troubled treaty port revealed in photo form
15 January 2024Estimated at £3000-5000, an album containing possibly unique views in the Treaty Port of Chinkiang (Zhenjiang) sold for £8200 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at the Flints auction on January 9.
Ruskin pottery collection stars in Dreweatts’ Interiors sale
11 January 2024Pottery that came from the original Ruskin factory collection drew healthy competition at an auction in Newbury.
Chicago auction house Hindman merges with Philadelphia-based Freeman’s
10 January 2024Chicago auction house Hindman has announced a merger with Philadelphia-based Freeman’s and the opening of a saleroom in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Signed photo of The Beatles sells for £13,000 at Auctioneum
10 January 2024A c.1964 publicity photograph signed by all four members of The Beatles was the highlight of a timed online sale in Bristol.
Quentin Bell lampshade takes nearly 40-times estimate
10 January 2024A lampshade painted by Quentin Bell sold for a remarkable £4700 when Adam Partridge dispersed the residual collection of Michael Evans (Dayabandu).
Album with rare photos of China takes £8200 at Flints
10 January 2024Estimated at £3000-5000, an album containing rare - possibly unique - views in the Treaty Port of Chinkiang (Zhenjiang) was the top lot at an auction in Thatcham, Berkshire.
Rare central Asian textile takes £26,000 at Gorringe's
09 January 2024A 19th century silk weaving sold for 144 times the top-estimate in Lewes on January 8.
Third Burges brooch emerges at auction following Antiques Roadshow appearance
08 January 2024The new discovery, unveiled on the BBC show Antiques Roadshow on Christmas Eve, comes for sale in Market Harborough on March 5.
Pick of the week: Raise two pints to Guernsey mug at auction
08 January 2024The vast majority of Georgian-era Channel Islands silver baluster mugs are of a pint or half-pint capacity.
An Art Deco silver cigarette box is among five lots to watch
08 January 2024With estimates from £100, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.
Ephemera reveals Freddie Mercury’s band before Queen
08 January 2024Freddie Mercury mania in 2023 was not confined to Sotheby’s in London.
Virginia as the garden of Eden
08 January 2024In 1585 English colonists Thomas Hariot and John White recorded their first impressions of life on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina.
‘What to the slave is your 4th of July?’
08 January 2024Printing of abolitionist Douglass’ famous speech on a ‘rich inheritance’ not shared takes nearly $70,000
Bidders on the alert to spot a Doulton Sentinel
08 January 2024In the early years of the HN collection in the 1920s several companies commissioned Doulton figures to advertise their products.