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A scarce lifetime biography of the renowned pan-Africanist Paul Cuffee, found plenty of competition at a recent auction at Dominic Winter.

A fragment from HMS Bounty that has been discovered in an attic is coming to auction in Derby on February 26. Bounty was burnt by mutineers at Pitcairn Island in 1790. The relic being offered by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 auction house Sotheby’s reversing the commission structure it introduced just seven months ago.

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, ...

A private collection of memorabilia commemorating Dambuster Guy Gibson (1918-1944) is to be auctioned on January 7 at Gildings Auctioneers in Leicestershire.

Lyon & Turnbull will sell the art collection of the banker and financier Bernard Kelly (1930-2022) in London on January 15. The 314-lot sale, offering an eclectic mix of art antiques from Renaissance ...

At Van Ham (27% buyer’s premium) in Cologne on November 12, the auctioneers were overwhelmed with bids when an early 20th century plaster copy of an iconic ancient Egyptian bust came up for sale with ...