An intrepid trio from local auction house Cuttlestones took on the Three Peaks Challenge last weekend in an effort to bring the company, which has auction rooms in Penkridge and Wolverhampton, closer to its target of raising £10,000 for Katharine House Hospice; its nominated Charity of the Year.
Staffordshire and West Midlands auction house Cuttlestones is celebrating a particularly strong performance in its first ever two-day Fine Art & Antiques auction.
St Lawrence Church, Gnosall is hosting an ‘Antiques Road Show’ on Saturday 13th October 2012 to raise funds for the various charities that the church supports, both locally and nationally.
A collection of photographs, sketches, letters, other ephemera and items of pâte-sur-pâte porcelain belonging to the private collection of Minton’s master of the lauded decorative art form, Alboin Birks, sold last Friday for £17,287.
A collection of signatures relating to luminaries of the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries sold for £10,856 at Cuttlestones’ Specialist Collectors’ Sale last week.
Local auction house Cuttlestones, which has sale rooms in both Penkridge and Wolverhampton, is set to host its first two-day Fine Art and Antiques Sale next week.
In the early 20th Century, Alboin Birks (1860 – 1940) was one of the foremost figures in North Staffordshire’s pottery industry, renowned for his work on Minton’s delicate pâte-sur-pâte porcelain.
3 adventurous colleagues from local auctioneers are attempting to ascend the highest heights in the British Isles to help raise funds for Katharine House Hospice.