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The BBC’s Antiques Roadshow has released the dates and locations for the recording of its programmes in the summer of 2019.

Reflections on the global art market, auctioneers in retirement and toy sales all feature in our weekly roundup of quotes from around the art and antiques trade.

A fine copy of the very first issue of the Beano has sold at auction for £8700. Beano Comic No 1 from July 1938 debuted characters such as Big Eggo, Morgyn the Mighty, Contrary Mary and the long-running favourite Lord Snooty and his Pals.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, ATG brings you its choice of women who centuries ago, were trailblazers for the female artists who flourished amid the greater freedoms of the 20th century.

The UK’s art market reclaimed its second position in the global league table as China’s rapid growth slowed during 2018.

Ninety-two first edition copies of Beatrix Potter’s 1907 ‘The Tale of the Faithful Dove’ go under the hammer in Surrey this month.

ATG’s selection of hammer highlights over the past week include a Henry VIII apostle spoon making ten times estimate at an auction in Leicestershire, and a huge Minton majolica urn bringing similar levels of competition in Ireland.

Norfolk sisters Catherine and Shelley-Anne Wilford have launched Beeston Auction House after the retirement of the owners of Townsend Auction Galleries.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a painting found in a French attic believed to be by Caravaggio and now due to be auctioned with a valuation of over £100m, as well as Bonhams raising its buyer’s premium to a level beyond Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips.

A large David Hockney (b.1937) double portrait led Christie’s latest evening sale of post-war and contemporary art in London.

An update on recent appointments in the world of art and antiques.

Two collections of Clarice Cliff pottery are coming up for sale in Salisbury, from typical wares to the very rare. ATG talks to Woolley & Wallis specialist Michael Jeffery about six lots that reflect the evolution of the pioneering designer’s output

It was a case of little and large at Sotheby’s last night as an enormous work by Jenny Saville (b.1970) and a small portrait by Lucian Freud both sold at the firm’s latest Contemporary art evening sale in London.

A simple toy steam locomotive left a vendor chuffed as it made a hammer price 115 times its top estimate.

A Dehua blanc de chine figure of Guanyin sold for a surprise £39,000 – some 130 times the top estimate - at Bellmans in Wisborough Green, West Sussex last month.

‘Lost’ episodes of TV series have become sought-after items, not least among Doctor Who fans. Of interest to collectors is an archive of photographs and copies of plans from The Power of the Daleks – the completely missing third serial of the fourth season first broadcast by the BBC in six weekly parts from November 5-December 10, 1966.

The archive of Labour’s longest-serving MP Tony Benn (1925-2014) has been accepted by the British Library.

Jewellery and watch specialist Fellows is to introduce a new sale category this month focused upon the better quality lots it sells from its Birmingham saleroom.

Sport shirts at regional auction houses in Cardiff and Surrey win fans.