Tales of Youth | The Big History Night In
Saturday 10th February 2024
6:30pm
Southwark Cathedral

Fellows is proud to sponsor a candlelit evening of history.
This one-of-a-kind event will support the important work of the charity Papyrus.

Historian Nicola Tallis will host an impressive series of talks for what is set to be an unforgettable evening. 

Bombshell Competition x Fellows Festive Shopping Day
Wednesday 22nd November 2023
12 pm - 7 pm
29 Charles Street, Mayfair, London, W1J 5DT

Join us for our Festive Shopping Day where you can preview of our November Fine Jewellery auction. We will also be joined by our friends from Bombshell, who will be showcasing some of their latest dresses as well as the chance to win a dress! 

Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time
Wednesday 10th May 2023
6 pm - 7 pm
In-Person and Online

In Hands of Time watchmaker and historian Rebecca Struthers welcomes us into the hidden world of watchmaking, offering a personal history of watches that spans centuries and continents.

Venus and Aphrodite: History of a Goddness
Sunday 30th April 2023
3 pm - 4 pm
The British Library, 96 Euston Rd., London NW1 2DB

Fellows is proud to sponsor this event at HistFest 2023.
 Through ancient art, myth, philosophy and more, Professor Hughes demonstrates why this immortal goddess has endured to the twenty-first century. In this captivating event, she tells the tale of one of antiquity’s most potent deities, and with it the story of human desire itself.  

Science Museum Lates 
Wednesday 29th March 2023
6:30 pm – 10 pm
Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD

 Science Museum Lates are adults-only, after-hours theme nights that take place in the museum on the last Wednesday of every month.
Come and meet our specialists amongst the gems of the Clockmakers Museum, to learn the tricks we use in spotting fake watches 

Vintage Jewellery Tea Party with Bird & Blend
Wednesday 22nd February 2023
2pm - 4pm

 Expert Tea Mixologists from Bird & Blend will teach us all about different tea types. You will get the chance to sample a variety of unique blends and flavours, paired with vintage tea services from the famous potteries of the UK and Europe. 

You will be surrounded by elegant antiques and given the opportunity to wear some jewels which have been hand-picked for the occasion. 

In-Person & Live Webinar

 In All the Queen’s Jewels, Dr Nicola Tallis uncovers the exciting history of the jewels and jewellery that the ten queen consorts of England from 1445-1548 wore and their significance as an explicit and unmistakable display of wealth, majesty and authority. 

Designer Collection Viewing

Tuesday 29th November 2022
12pm - 7pm

Come and join us at our gorgeous Georgian townhouse for a drink with the most fantastic backdrop of beautiful handbags and designer accessories.

Gentlemen's Shopping Experience

Tuesday 22nd November 2022
12pm - 7pm

Come and join us at our gorgeous Georgian townhouse for a luxury shopping experience. Alongside the Luxury Watch Sale, we will feature some of our favourite brands to give you plenty of gift ideas for the men in your life ahead of Christmas. 

The Art of Heaven: The Holy Jewels of the Church

Wednesday 21st September 2022
In-Person & Live Webinar

This talk examines the art collected by the Christian Church throughout history. From the Middle Ages to the modern-day, Dr Emma Wells will examine arguably the greatest curated collection in existence. 

Tudor Jewels at Harvington Hall 

Monday 13th June 2022
Day Trip

Join Fellows Auctioneers and Dr. Nicola Tallis at The House of Secrets and delve into its fascinating history as well as the legacy of the Tudor period left there. Harvington Hall is a stunning Elizabethan Manor House with a fascinating history of religious upheaval including priest hunts.

Derbyshire's Country Houses at Tissington Hall

POSTPONED
Day Trip

Join Fellows Auctioneers and Historic Decoration at Tissington Hall for a day exploring the architecture of this most picturesque of counties. This is set to be a special day of architecture and social history including a lecture from an architectural historian and a private tour of this beautiful house.

 

In celebration of the long relationship between horology and the automobile, Fellows will welcome car and watch enthusiasts to an evening talk by journalist and author Simon de Burton. The event will take us back to the very dawn of motoring and the appearance of the first driver's wrist watches a few years later, highlighting along the way some of the remarkable pieces that have helped to forge the inextricable link between the car and time.

Oliver Gerrish, of Historic Decoration, will explore some of London's most iconic and historic townhouses. He will examine some that are still standing, as well as those we have lost.

In-Person & Live Webinar

Dr Nicola Tallis will explore the life of Lady Margaret Beaufort, an independent and vibrant character who would risk everything to become queen in all but name. She will also add another dimension to the story of this extraordinary woman by examining Margaret’s sumptuous jewel collection and the ways in which she used it, thereby revealing another, surprisingly extravagant, side to Margaret’s personality.

 

Syon House and the Downton Jewels

Tuesday 23rd November 2021

Join Fellows Auctioneers and Historic Decoration at Syon House for a day of stately bejewelled pleasure at Syon House, the palatial London ancestral estate of the Dukes of Northumberland. Set amid rolling parkland, Robert Adam’s Syon House is one of the last great country houses in Greater London. 

We will be joined by our guest speaker jeweller Andrew Prince, who created much of the magnificent jewellery seen in Downton Abbey. 

We will have lunch at the Hilton London Syon park followed by a tour of the house with Caroline Percy (who grew up at Syon House as the eldest daughter of the 10th Duke of Northumberland) and architectural historian Oliver Gerrish. The crowning part of the day will be tea in the private drawing room as well as a viewing (and trying on!) of the Downton jewels.

It is time to recreate your very own Downton Abbey moment!

Syon House and the Downton Jewels

Tuesday 19th October 2021

Join Fellows Auctioneers and Historic Decoration at Syon House for a day of stately bejewelled pleasure at Syon House, the palatial London ancestral estate of the Dukes of Northumberland. Set amid rolling parkland, Robert Adam’s Syon House is one of the last great country houses in Greater London. 

We will be joined by our guest speaker jeweller Andrew Prince, who created much of the magnificent jewellery seen in Downton Abbey. 

We will have lunch at the Hilton London Syon park followed by a tour of the house with Caroline Percy (who grew up at Syon House as the eldest daughter of the 10th Duke of Northumberland) and architectural historian Oliver Gerrish. The crowning part of the day will be tea in the private drawing room as well as a viewing (and trying on!) of the Downton jewels.

It is time to recreate your very own Downton Abbey moment!

 

 

Fellows are delighted to confirm that we will be attending this year’s Game Fair at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire. The Game Fair is the annual gathering for people passionate about countryside pursuits and the Great British Countryside.

 

Do men wear jewellery? Should men wear jewellery? In this talk, V&A curator Rachel Church will look at the history of male jewellery and how ideas about appropriate jewellery have changed through time. From the glittering chains and jewels of the middle ages, to the diamond rings worn by 18th and 19th century men, to the rediscovery of jewellery by stylish contemporary men, this talk will look at how ideas of male adornment have intersected with class to create the changing image of the jewelled man.
Rachel Church is a Curator in the Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum with a special responsibility for the rings collection. She has published and lectured on jewellery and worked on the re-display of the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery. She has contributed to a number of V&A publications, including writing on gold boxes in The Gilbert Collection at the V&A (2009).

 

In 1912, laborers on a building site in Cheapside in the City of London unearthed a great trove of gemstones and jewels which had lain undisturbed for some 300 years. Known and celebrated as the Cheapside Hoard it is still the largest known cache of its kind in the world. These objects, dazzlingly beautiful, intricate and often astonishing, are evocative emissaries from London's past. The Cheapside Hoard remains the single most important source of our knowledge of the Elizabethan and early Stuart jewellers' trade and, by extension, life and fashion in London society of the era.

 

Through the consideration of historic and recent examples of art crime, Riah’s talk will consider how the issue is prospering in today’s increasingly digital and international market. She will explore widespread media allegations that the art market’s ‘opaque and unregulated’ practices are to blame for such criminality, whilst revealing some of the (often humorous) realities of investigating it. 

Riah Pryor is an investigative journalist specialising in art crime.
Following education as an art historian, she worked as a researcher at New Scotland Yard’s Art & Antiques Unit, New Scotland Yard, with whom she also co-curated an exhibition on ‘Fakes & Forgeries’ for the V&A.

Throughout history jewels have been viewed as the ultimate symbol of wealth and power: a visual statement of portable riches, and a vital part of the projection of majesty. This was particularly important in the sixteenth century, as it was an age when outward display was of the utmost importance. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the instances of the six wives of Henry VIII.

Nicola’s talk will investigate the jewellery collections of these extraordinary women, as well as exploring the ways in which they wore and used jewels in varying contexts. In so doing, a fascinating new dimension to the famous Tudor King’s queens is revealed.

At 2pm, on Tuesday 30 January 1649, King Charles I stepped onto a wooden scaffold outside Whitehall’s Banqueting House, knelt down in front of an audience of thousands and was publicly beheaded as a traitor. From imprisonment and trial to execution and legacy, historian Rebecca Rideal unravels one of the most important events in British history – the regicide of Charles I.

From the Bronze Age to the coming of Hollywood's Golden Age, Greg has assembled a vibrant cast of over 125 actors, singers, dancers, sportspeople, freaks, demigods, ruffians, and more, in search of celebrity's historical roots. He reveals why celebrity burst into life in the early eighteenth century, how it differs to ancient ideas of fame, the techniques through which it was acquired, how it was maintained, the effect it had on public tastes, and the psychological burden stardom could place on those in the glaring limelight.

To celebrate August's Luxury Watch Auction, we invited watch aficionado, author and journalist Simon de Burton to share his knowledge and passion for rare watches with you. He explored the history of watches used in military settings from as far back as the 19th Century to the modern day. Simon also spoke about a set of watches that featured in the auction called the 'Dirty Dozen'.

Through the examination of surviving examples, practising watchmaker Dr Rebecca Struthers PhD explores how the Swiss industry as we know it today emerged over 250 years ago out of the market for spuriously signed ‘English’ watches.

Through a case study approach, Maria’s talk will discuss some of her award-winning research into the area of ‘Forensic Jewellery’; investigating the ways in which jewellery can assist with human identification in investigations of death, crime and disaster.

Oliver Gerrish, of Historic Decoration, will give a talk on this most eclectic time in British architecture and interior design. He will examine how it came about, the stylistic signatures, and focus on a number of fascinating examples and architects and designers.

Oliver Gerrish, of Historic Decoration, will give a talk on Robert Adam was a leader of the first phase of the classical revival in England and Scotland from around 1760 until his death. His country houses displayed virtuosity and originality and have held the public imagination since they were built. The formation of his style and its legacy will be explored in this talk.

Mourning jewellery expert Hayden Peters will be exploring mourning jewels made by the goldsmiths of 18th and 19th century Birmingham, London and Chester. The talk was held at our Georgian townhouse - a beautiful, historic setting in which Hayden will transport us back in time to look at how people lived, loved and mourned in times gone by.

Fellows Auctioneers alongside Historic Decoration hosted a wonderful event at Syon House. Set amid rolling parkland, Robert Adam’s Syon House is one of the last great country houses in Greater London.

Sentimental Jewels was a fascinating day with access to the house and its history. A talk from Art of Mourning’s captivating Hayden Peters explored the sentimentality of jewellery over the last 500 years and the hidden meaning behind certain objects.

After lunch, there was a tour of the magnificent house, led by interior designer Caroline Percy and architectural historian Oliver Gerrish from Historic Decoration. You couldn’t ask for better guides to share all the secrets this house holds – Caroline actually grew up at Syon!

After the tour there was a chance to relax over tea in the beautiful Green Drawing room with our hosts and speakers. Fellows provided some gorgeous period jewellery for guests to try on in the context of this great house. The perfect chance to recreate your very own Downton Abbey moment!