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A group of Kangxi bird paintings from the celebrated Imperial Manual of Birds sold for a combined £600,000 at Roseberys in south London.

Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780-1854) was clockmaker to George III and also to The Prince Regent, later George IV.

An American library has announced the purchase of six “exceptional collections” including letters shedding light on the early British Atlantic slave trade that were originally sold at a UK auction.

TEFAF New York boasted an 11% rise in attendance from last year despite challenging times.

Works coming to auction from artists’ estates give a never-seen-before quality and personal attraction

The two events launched in Kent earlier this year by organiser Paul Ellison of Needful Things Antique Fairs were busy that he has changed to a larger venue.

While few will welcome the news that Bonhams – the last of the major auction houses to hold regular sales Japanese works of art in London – is moving its department to Paris (ATG No 2690), there will be opportunities for UK salerooms that continue to plough this selective but occasionally fruitful furrow.

International museum and institutional interest is always a feature of the Salon du Dessin but this year it was even more marked with nearly 500 curators attending.

An Old Trafford supporters’ bench removed during the stadium’s 1992 renovations made 50 times its low estimate at Graham Budd’s latest auction.

Although cautiously catalogued, the Library Collection sale at Adam’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Dublin on April 29 included three pieces of Roman statuary that had been in an Irish private collection since around 1940.

Christened Amanda but always known by her middle name, Jane was an unlikely but highly successful picture specialist at Christie’s South Kensington.

Here we focus on three events this summer of interest to textiles enthusiasts

Can you make a living from selling ephemera and low-value works on paper?

Letters found in family archive include first-hand accounts from St Helena in 1821

At the time that the London-born artist George Chapman (1908-93) first encountered the Rhondda Valley in 1953, he happened to be reading a series of books by US writer William Faulkner.

The toy manufacturer Märklin did not just produce models for private use.

Spot the difference?

Sheet of various figures and body parts in red and white chalk set an auction record for Primaticcio

A Citroën 2CV toy car is not quite as glamorous as a Lotus Esprit, even when the full-size version helps to save James Bond in an epic chase.