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Despite a repainted face, and the arms and legs not being original, this William and Mary c.1690 English carved wooden doll still impressed a buyer enough for them to win her at a hammer price of £4600.

Auction house attracts ‘huge interest’ for a fountain pen once owned by prime minster Lee Kuan Yew

Enys House and Gardens in Penryn, west Cornwall, is the slightly mysterious backdrop to Nicki and Ralph Retallack’s biannual antiques and decorative fair with the second this year running on Saturday and Sunday, September 26-27.

On Thursday, August 27, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold trading price of: $4602.48 / €3948.66 / £3384.18

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Large views of the British countryside, garden paintings and botanical studies are the most popular works when it comes to Somerset-born Alfred Parsons (1847-1920).

It comes with very great sadness to announce the death of Anna Katherine Harvey Haughton (1937-2026), a figure so well known and loved by the art world, who died peacefully on August 9, surrounded by her family.

‘Beautiful impression’ of The Birth of Venus shows how certain works stand out in a market of multiples

The highlight of the latest Militaria and Ethnographica sale at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) was an extraordinarily detailed first-hand account of shipwreck in the Indian Ocean.

Hartlebury Castle in Kidderminster was home to the bishops of Worcester for 1000 years, including Pope Clement III who refused Henry VIII his divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

For all their diminutive scale, the term ‘portrait miniature’ originally had nothing to do with size.

For holidaymakers who headed to Kent this summer, if you passed by Whitstable you may have seen a bench dedicated to the late Cindy Mainwaring Mack, the antiques fair doyenne.

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

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

An Edwardian ‘Regent Plate’ teapot by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company of London sold to a UK bidder for £4300 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Adam Partridge in Liverpool.

A taxidermy ‘fox head’ bought in an antiques market for just £50 has been described as ‘the discovery of a lifetime’ after fetching £50,000 at an auction near Bristol.

Remarkably, given Chelsea FC’s modern-day huge spending and multi-year lucrative contracts, two of the squad who helped to win their first-ever league title in 1954-55 were amateurs.

A small collection of Egyptian antiquities comes for sale at Catherine Southon in Chislehurst, south-east London, on September 9.