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The second TEFAF New York Fall features a total of 93 exhibitors at the Park Avenue Armory.

A select offering of 44 lots of silver, sculpture, objets d’art and furniture that have been chosen for their quality and provenance go under the hammer at Sotheby’s Bond Street on the evening of July 5 as part of its 'Treasures' sale series.

For more than 10 years a banner sat stowed away in a cupboard at a little charity shop in Leeds after it was donated. Little did the staff know that one day that same once-forgotten item would sell at auction for a hammer price of £13,600.

One of pop artist Andy Warhol’s first self-portraits was hammered down at £5.2m in a London sale.

More than $3.1bn of art, antiques and collectables sell online each year but around a fifth of dealers still have no plans to begin selling online, according to a recent report.

The novel that introduced the world to James Bond, ‘Casino Royale’ of 1953, has long been a key target for collectors. Anyone who laid out 10/6d for a copy over 60 years ago and has kept good care of the book will have done themselves or their descendants proud.

‘Fine Arts Paris’, the new fair in Paris being held in November at the Palais Brongniart , has announced its exhibitor list for its inaugural staging.