Law, crime and regulation

Mark Goodger Antiques was the victim of a theft during the LAPADA Fair in Mayfair.

Roger Dean’s original artwork for Fragile, the 1971 album by British progressive rock band Yes, had been missing for 50 years.

The government has issued a temporary export block on a 4000-year-old battle-axe head in the hope a UK institution can rase the £15,000 needed to keep it in the UK.

A man who pleaded guilty to stealing a page from a 17th century atlas from a library at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir stolen from a museum on the French Riviera have been recovered almost a month after a burglary.

Wiltshire Police has issued an image of an antique bronze fountain stolen from a garden in the village of Fisherton de la Mere.

The Manchester-based owner of an early 20th century Persian rug hopes the trade could help him recover the family heirloom after it was stolen earlier this year.

The major lender to the Lalique Museum in France has welcomed its reopening and remains hopeful some of the 27 items could be recovered.

The government has issued a temporary export block on an early 16th century sculpture in the hope a UK museum will be able to raise the £4.6m needed to keep it in the country.

A pair of c.1800 flintlock box-lock pocket pistols have been stolen from a home in the New Forest.

An Anglo-Saxon mount, discovered by a metal detectorist in Norfolk and sold at Noonans, has been blocked from export giving an institution the chance to raise £1000 to keep in the UK.

A Rembrandt portrait sold privately via Christie’s has been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a museum in the UK can raise the £71.7m needed to keep it in the country.

Thames Valley Police have charged two men in connection with a burglary at Station Mill Antiques, Chipping Norton.

Technology companies developing AI have been buying up vast quantities of books in order to train computer models but in the process some books have been destroyed.

A string of thefts from antiques shops in the Thames Valley, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire has led to fears more traders could be targeted.