2024

An FA Cup winner's medal awarded to a club's assistant secretary may not sound that much of a big deal.

A Sussex museum is launching a campaign at London Art Fair to find elusive works by Bloomsbury Group artists not currently on public display.

Chicago auction house Hindman has announced a merger with Philadelphia-based Freeman’s and the opening of a saleroom in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

A c.1964 publicity photograph signed by all four members of The Beatles was the highlight of a timed online sale in Bristol.

A lampshade painted by Quentin Bell sold for a remarkable £4700 when Adam Partridge dispersed the residual collection of Michael Evans (Dayabandu).

Estimated at £3000-5000, an album containing rare - possibly unique - views in the Treaty Port of Chinkiang (Zhenjiang) was the top lot at an auction in Thatcham, Berkshire.

Maurice ‘Dick’ Turpin (1928-2005) was one of the best known antiques dealers of his day.

Items from the private collection of contemporary artist Pablo Bronstein (b.1977) formed a 289-lot dedicated sale at Dreweatts in Newbury.

A 19th century silk weaving sold for 144 times the top-estimate in Lewes on January 8.

Two rare artworks sold through auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s have been temporarily blocked from export to give UK museums a chance to buy the multi-million-pound treasures.

With estimates from £100, 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 work catalogued as ‘in the manner of JMW Turner’ bringing extraordinary competition in Stuttgart.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a London tube map from 1935 that emerged at a Bristol auction.

The PBFA has announced plans for its 50th anniversary year.

Stamp and coin dealership group Stanley Gibbons Group has been rescued from administration in a buy-out deal with owner Phoenix Asset Management.

The January calendar is packed with fairs and other outings for dealers in the UK and across the pond. Here we look at some of those events and what can be found at each.

ATG wishes all our readers a very happy new year.