Latest movers and shakers including expansion for Devon auction house and changes at the top of Stanley Gibbons. A selection of updates from across the auctioneering world ...

Art Deco earrings are among five lots to watch. With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

Unknown memento mori pendant discovered thanks to a 17th century portrait comes to Treasure House Fair. The memento mori pendant depicted in a celebrated 17th century family portr ...

Top stories this week including a Titanic victim’s pocket watch emerging at auction. The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of a second pocket wa ...

Rochester’s Huguenot Museum shines with latest acquisition. An 18th century silver tea table linked to the Lethieullier family has been purchased by the Huguenot Museum in Roche ...

British awards and decorations have many fascinating stories. There are two major categories: campaign medals and gallantry medals. Campaign medals are awarded to members of the British Armed Forces, ...

The earliest collectors of firearms were probably monarchs intent on amassing armouries to demonstrate their wealth and power. They also became patrons, employing expert craftsmen to create better and ...

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 ...

"In their view, we Londoners know little about God, and nothing about pottery". Royal Doulton's rise from London makers of domestic stonewares to an internationally-recognised Staffordshire Potteries ...

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 ...

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 ...

When they first came into use in the 1830s, friction matches were hazardous and could combust without warning, so vesta cases were something of a necessity. But as their production became more ...