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The tercentenary of renowned furniture maker Thomas Chippendale’s birth in Yorkshire this week is the catalyst for activities and exhibitions this year across the UK.

Antiques dealer Michael Baggott has highlighted on national television the huge amount of bureaucracy that will ensue when the proposed ivory ban becomes law.

An original map of the Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood is coming up for sale at Sotheby’s.

Auction house Grisebach in Berlin is celebrating after it sold a Max Beckmann painting for a premium-inclusive €5.5m - the highest price ever paid for a painting at an auction in Germany.

A famous Ronnie Barker script that first came to light during an episode of the Antiques Roadshow in 2006 has been hammered down at £28,000.

The bravery of the Dambusters crews has been marked in this 75th anniversary year by a series of events and at North Yorkshire auction house Tennants this month you have the chance to bid for a rare bit of memorabilia.

A long-lost sculpture made a reappearance this week as did a certain summer auction at Christie’s. Meanwhile, one reader took an ironic tone in responding to auctioneers’ commission rates. That and more at ATG this week – get a taste in our quotes of the week below.