A small group of previously unseen preliminary drawings by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator EH Shepard were offered by book dealer Peter Harrington.

A selection of updates from across the auctioneering world

The memento mori pendant depicted in a celebrated 17th century family portrait on the theme of grief, mortality, and religious faith, has been discovered.

The buyer of an Olympic winner’s medal from the first Olympic Games has been revealed by auction house Bruun Rasmussen.

An 18th century silver tea table linked to the Lethieullier family has been purchased by the Huguenot Museum in Rochester.

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A ‘long lost’ painting by Modern British artist Joan Eardley (1921-63) has been sold for £29,500 by The Scottish Gallery after it was rediscovered in an East Midlands charity shop.

The one-time home of the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire will open to the public for one day this summer as part of an East Anglian literary festival.

Condolences and memories of the well-respected Asian art dealer Michael Goedhuis were shared by the trade this week following his death aged 84.

A Devon museum is in discussion with a jewellery dealer for the loan of a Tudor ring discovered by a metal-detectorist.

The latest Movers & Shakers update includes news that art dealers Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena have launched two separate independent dealerships.

Dealers, collectors and Chinese art specialists Marcus and Debby Flacks will be offering 50 lots from their family collection at Christie’s in London next month.

A ‘scrapbook’ of photographs put together by Roland Haupt, a darkroom assistant in the London office of Vogue magazine, has been sold to The Bodleian Libraries by dealer Michael Hoppen Gallery.

A new book fair is being planned for the summer in Ireland.

The charity Art UK has completed its national project to record and digitise murals and street art across the country.