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THE owners of Antiquarius have submitted their plans to the council to turn the West London antiques centre into American fashion chain store.

SOTHEBY'S have completed the purchase of their New York headquarters in a $370m deal.

BY 1780, John Trumbull (1756-1843), a budding young artist from Lebanon, Connecticut who had sketched the Revolutionary War, found himself in grave difficulty.

A FORMER president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association has admitted stealing dozens of books from Sir Evelyn de Rothschild valued at a total of around £230,000.

BIRMINGHAM auction house Biddle & Webb are to open a Wolverhampton office later this month.

WHILE children celebrated as schools shut down across the country, the reaction of the art and antiques trade to the heavy snow that swept over Britain last week was largely less exuberant.

Melting bidders' hearts in a snow-covered Dorchester, this rare Doulton figure of a little girl cradling a doll proved the star attraction at Duke's sale on February 5-6.