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The Manchester-based owner of an early 20th century Persian rug hopes the trade could help him recover the family heirloom after it was stolen earlier this year.

ATG's Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices, keeping you on top of the latest market values

“It was a bit of a showstopper,” said Jonathan Benson, director and auctioneer at Essex saleroom Reeman Dansie (25% buyer’s premium).

A skeleton of a Cretaceous predator known as a Nanotyrannus will be offered at auction with an estimate of $6m-9m at Sotheby’s New York on October 27.

The major lender to the Lalique Museum in France has welcomed its reopening and remains hopeful some of the 27 items could be recovered.

Kingston’s Ancient Market Place, one of the oldest markets in the London area, has been damaged by fire.

The auction record for American painter Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-77) climbed higher last week after a small-scale depiction of shells drew a remarkable bidding battle at Freeman’s in New York.

New salerooms and rebrands are among the latest news from across the UK’s auction houses

With estimates from £1000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of an equestrian portrait bringing intense competition at a Suffolk auction

Prints based on John Hoppner’s (1758-1810) famous portrait of Lord Nelson proliferated throughout the 19th century. Today plenty of examples appear on the market with non-distinct copies tending to make under £200.

An early sales boom was underway at the autumn edition of The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park in the opening days of the event.

Christie’s is holding a mixed owner ‘live’ Chinese works of art sale in London this autumn – its first for some years.

ATG's Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices, keeping you on top of the latest market values

Sotheby’s will offer JMW Turner’s (1775-1851) ‘Rome, from Mount Aventine’ in December, 12 years after the same picture set a £27m auction record in the same saleroom.

A rediscovered marble of an early 18th century pope by a leading late Baroque sculptor come for sale in Salisbury this month.

A previously unpublished painting, only recently discovered in an Austrian private collection, promises to be one of the high points at Dorotheum’s upcoming auction of Old Masters in Vienna.

Estimated at £400-600, an Old Master equestrian portrait drew fervent competition at a recent auction in Suffolk.

With estimates from £500, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of Ebay testing changes its traditional auction model by trialling ‘soft close’ bidding