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Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions is to hold the first sale in its new Pall Mall home in April.

Cricket commentator who has a way with words offers books from own library at auction

London Auctions in Chiswick has hired a handful of new staff and is launching its first specialist sale this month.

This pair of daguerrotypes are by the influential English entrepreneur and photographer Richard Beard (1801-85).

Private buyers hold strong in Dublin despite Brexit concerns keeping northern dealers at bay

Reaction from ex-CSK specialists to the announcement that the saleroom will be closing.

The antiques trade has expressed disappointment following the Spring Budget, after its reform of business rates fell short of the wholesale changes requested by industry bodies.

250 jobs threatened as venerable rooms fall victim to global review

Dealer on a mission to establish such works alongside more ‘serious’ collecting fields

As the market evolves, auction rooms will inevitably come and go. But few will leave their mark like Christie’s South Kensington.

Much will depend on what the plan is for King Street and for the firm’s online-only sales (a growing but small fragment of the Christie’s business totalling £49.8m last year).

Estimated at £1500-2000, this rare English delft dish sold for £20,000 (plus 22.5% buyer’s premium) at Cheffins in Cambridge on March 8.

This 7 x 4in (18 x 11cm) enamel plaque in a silvered frame (right) by Francis Arthur Edwardes is the work of the Duchess of Sutherland Cripples Guild – the metalware workshop set up to aid and educate the children of the Potteries.

Attracting new and younger buyers is the thinking behind Tennants’ (18.5% buyer’s premium) modern and contemporary art sales. Held three times a year, the auctions offer art by a range of painters and sculptors at affordable levels to encourage new buyers into the market, while also appealing to established collectors.

Prints of Dublin as it would have looked in the late 18th century starred in an interiors sale held in the same modern-day city at Adam’s (20% buyer’s premium).

European CITES management authorities published a nine-page guidance report last week following a decision to protect all species of rosewood.