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More than one hundred antiques, including a significant amount of jewellery, were stolen from a Liverpool dealer.

Fashion and art will come together on the high seas this August as UK dealership Gray MCA brings fashion illustration to the Queen Mary 2’s annual Transatlantic Fashion Crossing.

A painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, a 36-light cut-glass chandelier and a Louis XV tapestry are among the 700 luxury items to be auctioned later this month from one of Northern Ireland’s wealthiest families.

No offence to Neil Diamond, a highly respected singer, but if you are a 12-year-old boy then memorabilia linked to him is not likely to be top of your present list. Fortunately, the other gift was a pair of boxing gloves owned by Muhammad Ali.

The uncomfortable but inescapable fact that a lot of Britain’s wealth was based on business fuelled by slavery was underlined recently by the case of Colston Hall in Bristol.

An outdoor sculpture garden will be unveiled in London’s St James’s Square later this month to promote Christie’s June auctions.

A portrait of a beautiful but mysterious 19th century lady led a sale at Exeter-based auction house Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood taking a hammer price of £155,000.