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Christie’s sale of works from London dealer Stephen Ongpin raises £2.51m

Largest collection of artworks by illustrator of Bagpuss, Ivor the Engine and The Clangers comes to auction in Canterbury

Rediscovered Henry Raeburn portrait brings competition in Cambridge auction

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Alec Guinness’s copy of Hamlet is among six lots to watch

Price Reporter: Latest auction results including a Marklin for Bassett-Lowke locomotive model

Top stories this week including an Oscar Wilde letter bought for tenner being sold for £10,000 at auction

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Auction ReportsWilliam De Morgan ships come sailing in

Art MarketA whisker away from destruction: Louis Wain works emerge from a skip

Dealers’ DiaryHill House comes home to Kensington

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Books & Works On PaperThe Glasgow slums revealed by a pioneering photographer

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Auction ReportsMartin Brothers birds at the double in salerooms

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