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INTERNATIONAL exhibition and publishing company dmg world media have acquired Chicago-based Expressions of Culture Inc., producers of SOFA Chicago and SOFA New York.

The stock-in-trade and private collection of Maurice Turpin who died in March, will be sold by Christie’s in London next spring. Two sales, on March 9 and 14, will offer over 800 items and are estimated to fetch over £2m.

The second tranche of a private collection of nutmeg graters was offered at Woolley & Wallis’ October 19 sale.

The niche market appears to be the driving force in silver sales today.

“Someday,” wrote The Times in August 1912, “collectors will ransack the town for Martin’s artistic stonewares.”

Yorkshire auctioneers and valuers DDM have joined a growing list of regional firms who have gone into receivership.

POLICE are appealing for information following the theft of four stuffed heads of wild animals that were stolen from a Leicestershire house.