Stolen

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of a dealer’s plea to help recover a clock stolen from his stand at the LAPADA Fair in Mayfair

A thief of 18th century coping stones from historic boundary walls in West Lancashire has been sentenced following assistance from locals who placed a tracking device among the stones.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Antique silver items have been stolen from a stately home in Warwickshire and police and the National Trust are calling for help to recover them.

Two people are appealing for help from the antiques trade and auctioneers after a lost brooch and a theft of rings occurred this month.

Thieves broke into The Lalique Museum in the early hours of July 5 and stole 27 items of jewellery valued in the region of €4.5m.

North Yorkshire Police has issued a plea for information following the theft of antique and vintage jewellery from an antiques centre in York.

A rare group of eight autograph letters by John Keats (1795-1821) to his fiancée Fanny Brawne that had been stolen in 1989 but later recovered are now heading to Sotheby's.

A group of rare books and a bound collection of 37 love letters written by the Romantic poet John Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne have been recovered and returned to the family.

The owner of a group of four antique Coalbrookdale benches and a decorative armillary sundial has made a plea to the antiques trade to look out for her stolen garden items.