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Concerns are mounting that a new government money laundering watchdog will lead to further red tape for dealers and auctioneers in the UK.

Crymogaea sive rerum Islandicarum… is a very rare history of Iceland by Arngrimur Jónsson, a scholar and teacher also known as Arngrimur the Learned.

A Chinese Kangxi period triple gourd vase that once belonged to the financier JP Morgan will feature as one of the highlights in Heritage Auctions’ inaugural Asian Art sale in Dallas on April 2.

News as reported from the ATG Archive

In the continuing series looking through the keyhole of ‘bricks and mortar’ shops in 2017, ATG talks to Alison Roylance, owner of Focus on the Past antiques centre, Clifton Village, Bristol.

Dealers and fairs are embracing the ‘mix it up’ approach to offering a wide range of styles and eras, as noted in our BADA fair preview (ATG No 2282).

The £810,000 wucai fish at Fellows’ (20% buyer’s premium) sale at Birmingham on February 27 (ATG No 2282) overshadowed everything else on offer but there were a number of other areas of interest among the 1250 lots.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning lots fall flat... but annotated Dorian Gray leaves treble the estimate

With BBC Radio 4 currently offering a season of programmes focusing on the Red Planet in fact and fiction, a couple of books from the Edgar Rice Burroughs series of Martian fantasies that made high prices in a recent US sale are an appropriate choice for these reports.

This image is one of the pieces featured in LEAD, an ongoing exhibition of the photographs of Alejandro Guijarro at the London gallery Tristan Hoare.

MADAM – I write regarding your reference to two paintings of Minorca’s Port Mahon by Anton Schranz (1769-1839), sold by Thomson Roddick at £20,000 in February (Art Market, ATG No 2283).

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.

Bonhams will conduct the first of a new format flagship sale next month.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period March 2-8, 2017. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

Two silver hammer highlights which sold for well above estimate

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.