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Alex Robins of AFC Fairs is a busy woman. She kicks off her showground scene on Easter Friday and Saturday, April 7-8, with the first of the biannual antiques and collectors’ fairs which she has run at the Wadebridge Showground in north Cornwall for 15 years.

The French art market is to fight “devastating” proposals to increase import tax on art and antiques planned by a new EU law.

Discoveries by dealers will be among the highlights offered at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, opening this week.

The Weekly Antiques Sale at Gorringe’s on February 27 included this fine Poole Pottery charger.

Since the days of Magna Carta, it was thought the best way to avoid a fraudulent measure was to have a verified ‘standard’ against which all others could be judged.

Nelson’s life and work has been exhaustively researched and evaluated since the day he died.

Three developments stand out in the latest British Art Market Federation Guidance issued

An early watercolour of Chepstow Castle by JMW Turner (1775-1851) that was previously recorded but its whereabouts unknown has emerged in Cambridge.

The anti-money laundering rules, applying the Fifth Money Laundering Directive (known as 5MLD) took effect on January 10, 2020. and apply to ‘Art Market Participants’ (AMPs).

Trade at London’s Camden Passage antiques market is being blighted by roadworks for a new traffic system.

A once neglected aspect of the silver market received a showpiece sale in February. ATG reports on the Stewart collection of Anglo-Indian silver from the Raj period.

The naturalistic landscapes and moody urban scenes of Algernon Cecil Newton (1880-1968) have provided a boon to both London and regional salerooms for well over a decade now.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online.

Bonhams will offer two single-owner collections as part of its programme for Asia Week New York.

Revived Woking event proves a hit with dealers who say the organisation is still a strength

Hugo Morley-Fletcher has died aged 82. The former director of Christie’s, appointed aged 29 as head of the ceramics department, he was also an early and long-running member of television’s Antiques Roadshow, an author, father, gardener and horseman.

The overall total raised at the latest round of Modern and Contemporary art sales in London was boosted by a couple of recently restituted pictures.