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The Wemyss Ware Buyer’s Guide: 5 Classic Pieces You Need in Your Collection

Invaluable

JUNE 10, 2024

In 2004, a world auction record was set for Weymss Ware, when a Scottish collector bid almost £70,000 (around $86,715) at a Sotheby’s auction for two sleeping piglets produced by the original Fife pottery. Homeware and Haberdashery Wemyss Ware set of four buttons. Sold for £3,750 via Lyon & Turnbull (August 2014).

Antiques and Decorative Arts

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Missing Tom Thomson painting at centre of $8m lawsuit returned to owner

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 24, 2025

An unsigned and untitled Thomson painting of a lake in Algonquin Park, which he originally gifted to his friend Charlie Scrim, was entrusted to Waddington’s Auction House in Toronto in 2015 by Joseph Murray, whose uncle had given it to him in 1977. In 2022, Murray filed an C$11m ($8m) lawsuit against Waddington’s. Larry Humber

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The Wemyss Ware Buyer’s Guide: 5 Classic Pieces You Need in Your Collection

Missing Tom Thomson painting at centre of $8m lawsuit returned to owner

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