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Although this small oil sketch that surfaced at Oxio Paris (24% buyer’s premium) in Saint-Ouen on November 19 was catalogued as by ‘Howard Hancock’, the signature is clearly that of David Howard Hitchcock (1861-1943).

Cast-iron provenances and first appearances on the market combine to boost value in a Cornish saleroom

Sixth instalment of single-owner collection on offer in west London features wonderful workshops

'Landscape and Figures' by Archibald McGlashan (1888-1980) is among the highlights at Ottocento’s Modern British art exhibition.

UNESCO is at it again, launching an initiative linked to antiquities with a series of bogus statistics to justify it.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

Fashion specialist Kerry Taylor was astonished to receive an email containing images of actress Elizabeth Taylor’s Oscar dress from 1961.

This silver and enamel vase by Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845-1927), the great master of Japanese cloisonné, sold to an English collector for £11,000 at Halls (24% buyer’s premium).

Scrap of paper came as result of half a manuscript book being chewed into ‘confetti’ by Steinbeck’s dog

The Christmas Rare Books & Collectors sale at Irish auction house Fonsie Mealy on December 12-13 includes No33 of only 150 copies in a limited special edition of Bog Poems by Seamus Heaney illustrated by Barrie Cooke (London, Rainbow Press, 1975).

You may have already hinted, suggested, nudged your loved ones to buy something special this Christmas, but what would the Antiques Trade Gazette team recommend? We gave them each a generous budget of under £1000

Antiques dealerships and art galleries around the UK have grown by more than 31% in a decade, according to a new study.

A fine pair of 18th century English chairs sold for $120,000 (£100,000) in Asheville, North Carolina, on November 16-18.

The writing was on the wall for the Waverley not long after it entered the market in 1895.