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Woking auction house closes after nearly 100 years

02 September 2016

Barbers Fine Art Auctioneers in Woking closed yesterday after nearly 100 years in business.

Ian Goldbart of Sovereign Rarities

Five members of Baldwin’s staff leave Stanley Gibbons Group and join Ian Goldbart's new business

02 September 2016

Ian Goldbart, lifelong coin collector and former managing director of AH Baldwin & Sons, is launching a new numismatic dealership and auction firm in Mayfair.

Birmingham anchor hallmark

‘Outsourcing’ of hallmarks: the trade view

02 September 2016

Opposition to the ‘outsourcing’ of UK hallmarks overseas is gathering momentum in the trade. Campaigners say the use of British hallmarks in India threatens a 700-year-old system for stamping precious metals.

Self-regulation: the art market should learn from the diamond industry

01 September 2016

A presentation at today’s Art Business Conference suggested that the future of the art market has a mirror in the recent past of the diamond industry.

Art Business Conference 2016

“I can’t hang my Picassos”: clarity over censorship needed for art market in Dubai

01 September 2016

A lack of clarity on issues of censorship is affecting Dubai’s role as a centre for the art market, delegates at the Art Business Conference heard today.

Victoria Borwick MP: ‘Brexit an opportunity to recast laws affecting UK art market’

01 September 2016

The antiques industry now has the chance to influence any rethinking of laws that have compromised its trade as the UK heads towards Brexit, the MP Victoria Borwick said this morning.

Traffic survey of UK Ivory Markets

Ivory survey vindicates UK antiques industry

01 September 2016

The UK antiques trade have been given a near clean bill of health by the leading wildlife trade monitor Traffic.