Author Archives: Peter Davison
Galleries – drop the jargon
Art text can often leave audiences scratching their heads and wondering what the blazes they mean. The Independent ran an article (Why it’s time for galleries to drop the jargon) a couple of weeks ago about tongue-twisting but often repetitively … Continue reading
Rare bull is 100 percent beef
With the horse meat furore refusing to die – unlike the poor horses – it’s good to know that a black galloway bull being offered for sale by antiques auctioneers in the Cotswolds is 100 percent beef: guaranteed. The rare … Continue reading
First house to get a phone goes under the hammer
A substantial 18th century house with bags of period features will be going under the hammer in the Cotswolds next month, with a guide price of £300,000. Estate agents Moore Allen & Innocent anticipate considerable interest in the Grade II … Continue reading
Get my advice on PR campaigns
Spend Valentine’s Day with Agent Pete! In a hotel room! In a recent, possibly rigged, and probably fictitious survey over 90 percent of the world’s women said they’d rather spend Valentine’s Day with Secret Agent Marketing’s dashing PR executive Agent … Continue reading
Skin of man-eating tiger to go under hammer
The skin of a huge tiger that terrorised an Indian village – and may have been responsible for the death of the school teacher’s husband – is the standout lot in the taxidermy section of Moore Allen & Innocent’s sale of … Continue reading
Scouts do their best at snow-hit auction
Their motto is ‘Be Prepared’, and Cirencester auctioneers Moore Allen & Innocent were lucky to have a troop of Boy Scouts on hand when snow bought the country grinding to a halt on Friday (January 18). Sadly these semaphore flag-wielding … Continue reading
No added horse meat! Androulla shows you how to cook a better burger
A healthier eating regime in the new year doesn’t mean having to give up your favourite meals, according to Wiltshire cookery expert Androulla Derbyshire. And, in the wake of the horse meat burger scandal, home cooking means you know what … Continue reading
Rude and rare biscuit tin goes under the hammer
Auctioneers are used to printing errors turning otherwise mundane items – bank notes, stamps – into collector’s items, but a tin going under the hammer in Cirencester in the new year really takes the biscuit. At first glance all looks … Continue reading
Broken Chinese bowl makes £22,000
A broken Chinese bowl proved it was all it was cracked up to be, and more, when it went under the hammer in Cirencester on Friday. The intricately-decorated oriental bowl, which dated from the 1800s, smashed all expectations, achieving £22,000 … Continue reading
Emergency services join forces to drive home drink-drive message
Don’t get behind the wheel after drinking, or this could happen to you. That was the sobering message being driven home to motorists by members of the emergency services yesterday (Tuesday) as they hauled a wrecked car into Marlborough High … Continue reading