Auctioneers

An auction of a banjolele at Hansons Auctioneers will be music to the ears of George Formby fans later this month.

Artworks consigned to the now defunct German online firm Auctionata will be auctioned at Van Ham Kunstauktionen in Cologne.

Bonhams has promoted Merryn Schriever to become the company’s director in Australia, following the departure of chairman Mark Fraser.

A massive Burmantofts faience charger has sold for £13,000 at Woolley & Wallis of Salisbury – the highlight of a remarkable collection of more than 700 pieces by the Leeds factory.

The ‘value’ of an auction lot cannot always be summed up by price alone. While not at a high estimate level, a sword coming up in a Cornish saleroom has a fascinating background. And whatever the final result is, the historical value can be viewed as priceless.

A painting from 1913 by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) drew an intense bidding battle at Sotheby’s latest evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art in London.

An eccentric and unique lifetime collection of more than 400 copper, tin and ceramic moulds feature in a special summer auction in Hampshire

A Georgian miners’ lamp lit up bidding at a Cotswold saleroom this month to a record for a Stephenson model.

A lifelong interesting in collecting can be sparked off by so many different things. For Australian Denis Joachim it was a purchase in a second-hand bookshop when he was just 18 years old.

A dramatic bidding competition for a wartime farming scene by James Bateman (1893-1959) came at the latest sale held at Littleton Auctions in Worcestershire. Estimated at £3000-4000, ‘Ploughing the Downs’ was eventually knocked down at £30,000, a house record for the saleroom.

One of Andy Warhol’s first self-portraits is to be offered at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening auction in London on June 28 with an estimate of £5–7m.

Sotheby’s has promoted Jan Prasens to managing director of its Europe division.

An elaborate ceremonial costume worn by one of Napoleon’s marshals led a dispersal of a family collection preserved by his descendants in a French château in Sarthe in Western France.