by John Taylors | May 15th, 2025 | Auction News
A brace of guinea fowl is expected to be the star attraction of a spectacular silver section in next Tuesday’s auction at The Mart Saleroom in Louth. The sculptures were made by Patrick Mavros, the Zimbabwean artist who found himself in the...
by John Taylors | April 17th, 2025 | Auction News
JUST LIKE THAT! A gift from Tommy Cooper of two of his iconic fez hats brought back memories of an event 70 years ago for local man Tim Dixon when he re-discovered them in his home. It happened in 1955. Cooper was just a few years into a career that...
by John Taylors | March 13th, 2025 | Auction News
On Tuesday a beautiful 18 carat gold half hunter pocket watch will be going under the hammer in an auction at the Eastgate Saleroom. It is a Grimsby trawling treasure – which is the reason that it is not lying at the bottom of the North Sea. ...
by Heather Pedley | October 7th, 2022 | Auction News
They stole a train to get into the war… started their campaign against Rommel’s tanks on horseback… got into the thick of some of the most ferocious fighting of the entire Second World War… and achieved immortality when they resorted to throwing...
by John Taylors | April 1st, 2021 | Auction News
SOLD FOR £280 SOLD FOR £820 SOLD FOR £580 Two hundred and eighty pounds does sound a bit much for a drink even in these strange times – but it was rather special! The drink in question was port, the 1934 vintage, bottled by the famous Warre & Co, one of the...
by John Taylors | March 4th, 2021 | Auction News
Some wonderful antique timepieces go through the auction room in a year but amongst the most impressive are the wall clocks made by craftsmen in the Vienna area in the 19th century. They are not perhaps the prettiest clocks that you will ever see (although fans would...
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