WHAT'S NEW ?....

Janurary 2012 A busy start to the new year has seen additions to our Fine Art selection. In British watercolours an exquisite small portrait by Hawkins; to European Landscapes, a small Dumarchey. A quirky asymmetrical MA.J.Fortier to Canadian oils.
At last our Preforming arts section is up, with some interesting delights for Dance, Ballet, Music and Theatre lovers including a scarce Nijinsky Gala poster and a very rare 1825 Handbill from Drury Lane Theatre being an exceptionally rare find for David Roberts collectors.
For collectors of items pertaining to the Napoleonic era, a number of prints relating to the Battle of the Nations have been added.
Further if you would like to be added to our mailing list for our new monthly news letter please contact us, Please don't forget to mention your specific areas of interest.

December, We continue to add pictures & autographs to our Autographs section including some iconic and rare items to our Flight and Space Travel section.

November, There are now six sections of collectable autographs put up. See our Autographs Index page.
Just in time for holiday gift giving we had added the first section of very collectable Autographs; Pop Culture,Entertainment,Show business. Many other sections are in the works, a hint of which may already be seen on our Autographs index page. Please contact us should you wish further details on any of these items as each comes with full documentation and certificate of authentication.

October, Under the Performing Arts heading we have now added a number of scarce and choice Ballet and Dance items for the collector.

August & Sept, we reorganized our home page to accomodate a much larger temporary index as we work behind the scenes to redesign the home page. Further research into the Lincoln Manuscript receipt (see May) has determined that it is in fact a clever forgery, in all probability by the hand of Joseph Cosey ca. 1910, it has since been withdrawn from sale.

July, As part of our expanding Manuscript and Autograph collection we have added an original letter written by Charles Dickens the year he published A Christmas Carol.

June, For lovers of Fine Art we have posted some fine paintings from our recently acquired gallery stock. A splendid British coastal marine, A exceptional watercolour example of the work of contemporary of the Canadian Group of Seven, Joachim Gautier; together with an McGillivery-Knowles oil and three collectable examples of paintings by American artists.

 

 

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May, A rare Abraham Lincoln item has been added to our manuscripts page, which now has a enlarged index which includes our Napoleon letter. We are informed that we are the first to have translated and discovered its significance in over a century.

April, You will find the truly splendid original hand coloured mixed-media engraving Balaclava 25 Oct.1854 by F.Stacpoole after the painting by Lady Butler. One ofonly a handful of copies in Canada, it will make a fine addition to any military collection, and particullarly those of Crimean battles. Two more Napoleonic items have been added the seige of Ratisbon and a manuscript letter from Napoleon.

March, We have added the first of a number of Napoleonic items from a recently acquired wonderful collection of Manuscripts and autographs. Marshal Ney Waterloo dispatch.

February, As Military history is one of our larger sections, we have now added a new and improved Military History Index page.

January 2011, Another year, and in keeping with the tradition of Hollywood new year movie realeases we have just posted our most ambitious mini movie to date. View it on our Lord Russborough's Annex Face book page, or Johannes Kip architecture page.

December, the second in our series of mini movies has now been posted on our Boarding school Education page. We take this opportunity to wish all our clients a very Merry Christmas and the Happiest of Holidays.

November, the first of a number of mini movies animating some of the interesting items available through our gallery or website has been posted view it on the Elopement page.

October, Lord Russborough's Annex is now on Face book.

September, A scarce item of Napoleonic interest pertaining to the Siege of Leipzig has been added.

August, For those with an interest in the history of South Africa we have added a fine 1909 watercolour of historical record. Click on Fine Art then South African painting

June /July, For any of you that attended boarding school or an English Public School, you might be interested to see the rare pair of images  Black Monday and Dulce Domum now available for purchase, as they are sure to evoke memories. They should be of interest to any one in the field of education and particularly those graduates of Abingdon & Stamford schools, not to mention Old Wykehamists.

June, Just discovered a fascinating Frond of WW1 amusing post cards satirizing the Germans and  very scarce greeting cards pertaining to the Canadian 35 Battalion.

May, As our site has grown we have listened to your pleas and have now added a search engine in order to make your navigation easier to find items directly both within our site and related pages.

March/April, We have been streamlining the site behind the scenes. For lovers everywhere we have posted the consummate Elopement prints. It is worth reading the story behind these splendid images as it makes the images come alive. They can be accessed by clicking Antique prints, at the top of the left panel of our Home page. Then via the sub headings on the Antique Prints page, or either the Coaching or Elopement links. Click on the titles if you wish to see enlargements. These wonderful images are original 19th. century hand tinted images, not re strikes. They would make great gifts.

February, Is Painting month and we have so far posted five works by American painters including two fine works by H. Peabody Flagg. We have also posted some works by Canadian artists including a fine Winchell Price

January 2010, A new decade begins with the the posting of another popular collectable poster from decades past. For Royalty loyalists and enthusiasts alike, a grand collection of Commemorative Coronation Special Issues is now available. And for those who have an interest in Renaissance woodcuts we have posted not just one, but two Dürer's, including a proof of the Angel with the key to the bottomless pit.

December, A busy month with encouraging signs that we are coming out of the recession This is the first christmas that sales from our web site overtook sales from the gallery. We did manage to post a beautifully composed view of Bethlehem. This view normally sells for over Cdn $1500, due to damage & repair we dropped the price to just Cdn $300 providing a splendid opportunity to acquire an what is still an original Roberts image at a great price.

October & November, Whilst most of the last couple of months have been spent in assembling and cataloguing a collection of new items for our annual winter show (hard to believe that this will be our twentieth at our Port Hope location) we have posted a fine map of Canada's Great Lakes 1749 during the French regime, and somewhat over twenty David Roberts

September, As we all start to emerge from the global economic downturn some really scarce items the have not been seen for many years are being offered to specialist dealers, who in turn are posting them on their web sites. The savvy collector knows that this is the time to snap up these rarities before the prices start to climb once again. We have just added another rare item for Map lovers - A large Birds-eye view of Winnipeg, Manitoba at the height of its boom era.

August, A rare treat for map lovers with the addition of the magnificent four conjoined sheet map of A NEW MAP OF NORTH AMERICA with the WEST INDIA ISLANDS... as large scale maps are becoming increasingly scarce. Also a 1657 double hemisphere map of the world, showing North America as the Island of Atlantis. Plus a rare map and really scarce print pertaining to the Seven Years War in Canada.

June/July, We have now begun the process of posting our David Roberts inventory, it will take some time to get them all up, so please inquire if you have an area of interest (see the separate index for Holy land and Egypt on the Roberts page.
Many believed that Jerusalem was the center of the universe, indeed the curious votive vase marking the center may be seen in this image (click link), so it is with Jerusalem that we have begun, followed by Bethlehem. Each image is keenly priced to enable first time collectors to enjoy these exquisite images, and every purchased image comes with an extensive catalogue description and is guaranteed 100% authentic.

May, has also seen the addition of a fine view of London's Horse Guards to our Military Interest pages.

Throughout April and May we have been working on preparing more examples from our extensive inventory of David Roberts views of the Holy Land and Egypt. We shall be posting them shortly.

February has seen the re design of our home page and the bringing to the fore the specialty services that we offer as we have received many requests for conservation of works of art, and others have sought appraisal of their collection.We have also made the addition to our Sporting images the quintessential Polo image.

To our Architecture pages, in late January,we added an example of a rare colour wood engraving by Arthur Rigden Read.

Within our eclectic Omnium Gatherum pages you shall now find the addition of some rare Dürer woodcuts.

In our Manuscripts, selection you may find another fine leaf from a Ca.1425 A Book of Hours
Recently we added to our military collection an extensive selection of Lady Butler war art and original images of Ogden, United States Army uniforms.

Additions have also been made to the extract from our Botanical print collection,

In December, we reorganized our Fine art section into categories with indices