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 ...

It was very much a local concern and local is the best word to describe the scope of factory and its wares, the geographical spread of its original clientele and, by and large, the nature of its ...

The years between the loss of the American colonies and George IV’s death in 1830 were the golden age for single-sheet political caricatures – bracketing the careers of two giants of the genre, James ...

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 ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a monumental Hans Coper (1920-81) vase which was found in a London garden among weeds selling at Chiswick Auctions ...

A postcard from Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) in Cape Town to his then fiancée Emily Dorman in London appeared at a recent sale at Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s.

London dealer Liss Llewellyn is currently offering an online sale of works from the estate of Douglas Percy Bliss and Phyllis Dodd, many of which have never been seen in public. Bliss and Dodd have ...

An archive of photographs, article notes and correspondence belonging to a Polish journalist documenting the Spanish Civil War sold above estimate at Doyle New York. Formed by Jan Winter (1907-1991), ...

Alan Taylor’s West Ham United shirt, winners’ medal and other items from the 1975 FA Cup final will appear at Stacey’s on April 28. When Alan Taylor lined up on the wet muddy turf at Highbury in the ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of efforts to establish whether antiques will be ...

Dealer Les Enluminures has sold a ‘pioneering-feminist’ medieval manuscript to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

The oldest known medieval Jewish artefact, a Kiddush cup from the 11th or 12th century, is being offered at Sotheby’s later this year. Examples of medieval Judaica are rare – less than two dozen ...