This enamel sign – possibly an early AA tourist sign – is thought to have been displayed at Temple Meads Train Station to direct arriving passengers to The Clifton Zoo. The black on yellow text reads ...

Sudbury auction house Mander is to hold its first sale since opening a new saleroom in an 11th century church in Norwich. The Grade-I listed St Mary Coslany Church, located in the centre of the city, ...

A single-owner collection of Antiquities & Oddities offered without reserve by Shapiro Auctions 30/29/18.9% buyer’s premium) in Mamaroneck, New York included several fine South American objects made ...

Unlocated Hans Coper mural rediscovered in German auction. Since 1985, when it was auctioned by Christie’s in London, the exact whereabouts of a major work by the German-born Br ...

From the world’s largest collection of the Little Red Book to the first atlas of China made in Europe, London's book dealers are bringing rare pieces of history to Hong Kong Revived for 2024, Firsts ...

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 ...

An original drawing for the project that Christo (1935-2020) intended as his only permanent, large-scale public artwork emerged at a recent Chiswick Auctions sale. The highlight of the 20/21 Century ...

Welsh working-class ‘urban creative’, Gordon House (1932-2004) was one of the hot, young talents at … ...

Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...

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