With estimates from £3000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week ...

Auction house Freeman's Hindman is offering an extensive collection of historic materials relating to US President Abraham Lincoln. Billed as ‘one of the most important Lincoln collections ever ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a Kentian table from a home in Connecticut being bid to a sensational sum at a recent auction ...

Auction house John Pye has been appointed to help find a buyer for the collapsed pottery firm W. Moorcroft Ltd. The historic manufacturer announced it had gone into liquidation earlier this month with ...

An Old Trafford supporters’ bench removed during Old Trafford’s 1992 renovations made 33 times its estimate at Graham Budd's latest auction.

Hendon was at the forefront of aviation in the early 20th century and many of the pioneering aviators are pictured in an 800-photographic archive being offered at auction next week. The archive of ...

The difficulties at the top end of the Modern and Contemporary art market were very much in evidence at the latest flagship auction series in New York. The sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips ...

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 ...

The form emerged in the early 18 th century, though the origin of the name is obscure. Chairs of this type were manufactured in large numbers in the Thames Valley in Buckinghamshire, and Windsor may ...

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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"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 ...