2024

The annual London Map Fair, which bills itself as the world’s oldest and largest specialist antiques fair, runs June 15-16 at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington Gore.

With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of London ancient coin business Roma Numismatics closing down.

An auction record for an English silver coin has been set in Zürich.

Ian Bairnson’s guitar featured in Kate Bush’s debut 1978 hit 'Wuthering Heights' is being offered at Gardiner Houlgate in Wiltshire.

Sotheby’s is hosting an exhibition in London this summer featuring 12 works loaned from museums. All the works are by artists who were born overseas but passed through or settled in the UK permanently.

The British Museum has recovered a further tranche of stolen and missing objects from its collection.

Auction house reduces buyers’ and sellers’ fees but rivals are yet to follow suit

Online show features everything from fine art to furniture, Asian art to antiquities

Mostly acquired over a four-year period, a 20-lot collection of Fabergé animals comes to Elmwood’s

This humble but hugely powerful object is a Charleston free badge, an oval copper planchet worn by a freed African slave in South Carolina in the 1780s.

Two valuable Bronze Age gold artefacts have been stolen from Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire.

Two works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) have emerged from a private collection and will be offered at Newbury saleroom Dreweatts on June 12.

London ancient coin dealers and auctioneers Roma Numismatics is to close.

With estimates from £400, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a ‘British School’ waterfall scene making 60 times estimate

Setting a record for any British-born female artist at auction, a surrealist painting by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) drew a lengthy bidding battle at Sotheby’s New York on May 15, taking the artist into a new league commercially.

Flagship event is scheduled for a later date and comes with new events for next edition

The napkin responsible for the signing of the teenaged Lionel Messi to FC Barcelona was sold by the player’s former agent at Bonhams

Lone thief took several high-value items of jewellery