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Some great results for Modern Art in Monday’s auction. This quirky portrait by the German born British artist Eva Frankfurther (1930-1959), whose work is rarely seen at auction, attracted fierce bidding in the room and online, eventually selling to the former for £1,250!

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As Christmas fast approaches pick up this original Cecil Aldin watercolour depicting a coaching scene outside the King's Head Pub, Chigwell in the snow.

One of many fine pictures in our next sale Monday 18th November.

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The wait for the new season of @TheCrownNetflix is almost over!

If you’d like to own a little bit of Royal history then you can pick up this original hand signed photography by Lord Snowdon (Anthony Armstrong Jones, 1930-2017) in today’s interiors auction!

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Swashbuckling Saturdays!

This beautiful design to the blade of a Weyersberg & Co presentation sword is one of a number of fine swords on offer in Monday's sale

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Winter is coming, and so is our next interiors Auction on the 4th November!

Here’s a detail from a beautifully snowy scene by Janet Ledger, one of two paintings by the artist in Monday’s auction.

See our full catalogue online now!

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Another rare book in today’s auction comes in the form of the 1st English translation of Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, published 1912.

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This extremely rare first edition of Richard R. Peabody's The Common Sense of Drinking published in 1931 is one of the highlights of our next auction this Monday 21st October.

Visit our website to browse the fully illustrated online catalogue!

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The catalogue is now online for Monday's auction which features this extremely rare India College of Fort William Gold Award Medal. Dating to 1810, the medal is part of a lot containing further significant awards to members of the same family.

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We’ve already consigned some impressive items to our next auction on Monday 7th October.

Contact us today for free valuations and advice regarding any pieces you are looking to sell.

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Blinging beauty’s from our recent interiors sale - a pair of Edwardian diamond and Kashmir sapphire drop earrings.

We’re now accepting entries of jewellery for other forthcoming winter sales.

Contact us for free no obligation valuations.

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This beautiful Russian silver & cloisonné enamel pill box, with mark of 20th Artel, is one of the highlights of our next auction this Monday 9th September (Lot 53).

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We have our usual fantastic range of pictures in Tuesday's auction, including this original etching by Salvador Dali, hand-signed by the artist (Lot 162).

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Bidders compete for Mannerist bronze at Essex auction @boningtons:
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This beautiful bronze in the manner of Giambologna, depicting the abduction of a Sabine woman, is one of the highlights of our next auction this Monday 12th auction. Visit our website to browse and bid on 500 lots of fine art, antiques and collectables!

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Happy International Cat Day! Here's 'Felix in Studio', a painting previously exhibited at the Royal Academy by Uriel Eekhoff (1923-2014), one of 20 lots by the artist in Monday's auction.

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It's one of the warmest days on record and we have some suitably hot lots in Monday's auction which starts with this stunning classic Jaguar XK150 Coupe, first registered 1959, with complete paperwork and history, estimated at £60,000-80,000!

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Brocktorff had fought in the Napoleonic wars as an infantry officer with the forces of the Electorate of Hanover before moving to England after 1809. When he settled in Malta in circa 1810, he opened an art studio in Valletta.

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Some great results in yesterday's auction, not least for this rare portrait miniature by Danish artist Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775-1850). Depicting a naval officer, the piece sailed way above estimate to sell for a hammer price of £2,400.