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Emma Rutherford admits to being “a very boring child” who became fascinated by history at the age of 10 or 11.

A selection of lots from upcoming sales

The auction market can be a fickle beast, as results for the same items offered on separate occasions sometimes show.

Porcelain birth tablets with their roots in Suffolk are unique to the factory

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of the sale of a Bernard Kelly's art collection and a £10m jewellery theft

Over the last decade, portraits from the 1920s by Dod Procter (1891-1972) have become increasingly valuable.

A recent weekly sale at Gorringe’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Lewes included an English porcelain rarity: a blue and white Cannon Ball pattern beaker and cover.

Rare opportunity to buy contemporary account of Paul Cuffee arises at Gloucestershire saleroom

Our regular listing of books and works on paper sales

Christopher Proudfoot is the president of The City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (CLPGS).

Following on from last week’s comments from three fairs and markets organisers on how 2024 has been for their businesses, here is the take from Europe’s largest antiques centre, a fair organiser who is packing them in and a booksellers fairs’ association with a £1m sales figure from just one event.

The hugely versatile Christopher Dresser sold 37 different designs to the Sheffield firm of Dixon and Sons from 1879-82.

Gambling today - particularly card playing - is a largely sanitised affair, occurring in luxurious settings under strict observation in town centre casinos.

On Friday, January 3, Michael Bloomstein of Brightonwas payingthe following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2656.10 / €2580.06 / £2142.02

A stand-out lot of Bellmans’ (25% buyer’s premium) biannual Fine Clocks auction on December 5 was a chronometer made for the 1874 British expedition to observe the transit of Venus.

Two sales in London offered personal collection of the Hobarts including artists they had championed

Jewellery dating to c.1960 was once owned by well-known women in New York and Palm Beach

Patrick Boyd-Carpenter is an established fine art dealer with over 40 years’ experience in handling paintings, drawings, sculpture and works of art. He is based at Grays Antique Market, London W1

British artist Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863-1937) is closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group, the collective of writers, intellectuals, and artists in early 20th-century London.