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Eager bidding from the first lot to the last ensured that Lawrences recorded a host of high prices in Lawrences...
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There’s a new face at the Roman Baths and it’s not a Roman character in costume – it’s museum curator,...
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This sale (taking place 16 September) will comprise an extensive and far-ranging private owner collection of First World War Medals. Over 500 lots of Great War medals, the vast majority to men who served on the Western Front, many of them casualties buried in an array of different cemeteries in...
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Words by Duncan Campbell | Antique silver specialist When it comes to predicting what decorative style is going to sell,...
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All medals have a story to tell and with careful research we can unearth the most interesting and unexpected histories:...
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Words by Duncan Campbell If you have stolen billions of pounds of your country’s resources and you want to get them off-shore before you are arrested, you better buy fine art. I’m sure superyachts are all very sociable and fun, but difficult to liquidate ‘on the hurry up’. Compared to...
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No.1 Royal Crescent, the townhouse museum where you can explore fashionable life in Georgian Bath of the 18th century, has...
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The young King Henry V has just assumed the throne and is planning to invade parts of France. Then 500...
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Eight frost fairs were held on the Thames between 1607 and 1814; the first recorded frost fair was in the winter of 1607/08. By 10 to 15 January the ice between Lambeth and Westminster was firm and thick enough to allow a large number of people to walk on it...
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Words by Duncan Campbell Offering a valuation on someone’s family heirloom might sound like a plain vanilla type of task...
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“1,000 years of history in about six seconds, coming up”– Daisy Game takes a whistle-stop tour of Bath, courtesy of...
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A sunny day in early spring is the ideal time to explore a town known as the ‘Capital of the Cotswolds’, says Andrew Swift. Fact FileLength of walk: 3.5 miles; 4.5 miles with optional visit to amphitheatreTerrain: On pavements and surfaced paths, and virtually level throughoutFacilities: A wide selection of...