A huge single-owner collection of Oscar Wilde letters, books and portraits are going under the hammer at Bonhams next month.

A huge single-owner collection of Oscar Wilde letters, books and portraits are going under the hammer at Bonhams London next month.

Antiques are being scrapped in bulk as the price of silver continues to soar. The spot price for silver in the UK rose above £50 per troy ounce for the first time on December 22,… ...

Despite suffering from water damage, wear and loss to the sheet as well as chips and cracks to the later 1950s-style frame, a head study of a bearded man brought intense competition at a recent sale ...

Antiques dealers and singer Kate Bush were among those paying tribute to Matthew Upham, 64, following his tragic disappearance at sea. The antiques dealer was one of two swimmers who went missing ...

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 ...

Burmantofts Pottery was born out of James Holroyd’s architectural brickworks, taking advantage of the rich local deposits of both coal and clay. However, today, the church built in Shakespeare Street ...

The most viewed stories on this website over 2025 included news of tributes being paid to Flog It! specialist and silver expert Michael Baggott who died in January ...

Three photographs of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace (1815-52) have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in a private treaty sale. The images, the only known photographs of the mathematician ...

The top pictures sold at regional salerooms in 2025 included an Old Master, a Lavery double portrait and a John Constable sketch. Here we pick out five of the best results which were covered in ATG ...

Silver spoons for the dining table have been around since antiquity - a much longer history than the table fork, which did not come into general use until the 18 th century. By this time spoons had ...

They did this to avoid the perils of travel and (after 1784) to escape paying duty in a region where a heathy distain for the Hanoverians persisted well into the 19 th century. Currently some 30 ...