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The strongest claimant to the title of world’s first cigarette card returned to the rostrum at a recent sale held at Sportingold in Barnsley.

In describing the work of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art (Letters, ATG No 2763) Martyn Downer says that the ‘often baffling temporary export bar process needs to be reviewed itself’: why?

Kilkenny auction house Fonsie Mealy is holding a contents sale at Newport House in Newport, County Mayo, on October 20-21.

Collector built friendships all over the world when amassing a record of two centuries of mining equipment

Famously, the academic ‘Hierarchy of Genres’ set out a pecking order for different types of painting.

Bumper auction includes set of Pooh books and 58 lots of modern firsts from a single vendor

Online purchases during the pandemic started an unplanned career in the trade and now a first exhibition.

Relatively few Britannia Standard silver dinner services from the Queen Anne period are available to buy.

Paintings by the Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch seldom make it to market and when they do, regularly command six-figure and on occasions even seven-figure prices.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including The Charleston Museum acquiring a 1711 silver chalice

The sale at Harper Field in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, on November 4-5 includes 14 pieces of Wedgwood Arts & Crafts creamware painted by Alfred Powell with scenes relating to Cherington Park, Tetbury and the surrounding area.

The auction record for an Edwardian novelty silver pin cushion beaten twice at the same sale at Kinghams (26% buyer’s premium) in Moreton-in-Marsh.

A lock of hair reputed to belong to Catherine Parr – Henry VIII’s sixth and final wife – drew a good deal of interest at Greenslade Taylor Hunt (19.5% buyer’s premium) in North Petherton, Somerset.

Vending machine and music box could once be found on railway station platforms to serve passengers

Since 1925 the Deutsches Museum in Munich has been exhibiting a complex and highly decorated 18th century calculating machine that bears the inscription Braun Invenit – Vayringe Fecit.

Our selection of lots from 15 upcoming auctions

Mark Prentice of Newgate Art Gallery in Beccles, Suffolk, has teamed up with Anna Bartlett of Albi Art and Interiors in Battersea, London, to host the three-day decorative art event at Anna’s home in Wandsworth.

Alongside its participation in Frieze Masters, The Gallery of Everything has dedicated its Marylebone space to the work of American artist Sam Doyle (1906-85).