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COIN dealers Noble Investments have announced the acquisition of Baldwin’s, the London-based coin dealers and auctioneers, in a reverse take-over.

Second year student Claire Playle and third year student Sharon Hall were the recipients of the Christopher Weston/SOFAA bursaries at the AGM of the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers at Wilton House, near Salisbury on October 31.

Dreweatt Neate Fine Art have arranged a major private treaty sale to the National Library of Australia, on behalf of a prominent UK family, of a historically important folio of watercolours.

The emerging class of wealthy Chinese buyers continues to boost the top-end of the art and antiques market in the Far East. So it wasn’t a huge surprise that Sotheby’s set a house record in this autumn’s Hong Kong series, taking HK$850.9m (£61.7m) from seven sales.

BY ALEX CAPON THE Arts Council is to extend its policy of offering interest-free loans to encourage Contemporary art sales by allowing London galleries to apply for the scheme.

Police in Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, are investigating a series of thefts from antiques shops and galleries in the area over the last month, which officers believe are linked.

Nicholas Somers, recently re-elected as chairman of the RICS Fine Art and Antiques Faculty, will make education the focus of his third and final term.