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Two more London fairs are on the cards for next year.

A combination of artist, sitter, date and quality ensured a compelling Newlyn school portrait caught the eye at David Lay’s latest auction in Penzance.

The team behind dealer marketplace 2Covet has bought The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair.

A small work on paper by the Symbolist Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) led a selection of works from the Isabel Goldsmith collection offered at Christie’s.

According to family history, an Art Deco four-piece suite offered by Mander (20% buyer’s premium) in Sudbury on July 9 has an ocean-going history.

Items collected and meticulously recorded from the 1970s onwards by a trade couple had the attractions of ‘dealer’s choice’ provenances when offered at Hanson Holloway’s Ross (25% buyer’s premium).

Both categories are particularly notable as Mark and Marjorie Allen lots sell in Pennsylvania

US collector tells us why he’s so keen to open a museum displaying his purchases

Overseas interest in tribal art and Doulton Lambeth wares fuelled the higher prices at Cuttlestones’ (20% buyer’s premium) Penkridge sale but it was a new outbreak of cardomania which raised temperatures of collectors across England.

Gastronomy-themed books spanning five centuries were offered in a London auction.

A quick look at some recent events and objects on offer around the trade.

Jackie Edwards launched her antiques and vintage street markets nearly 10 years ago as ACVR Events.

On Friday, August 5, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1786.75 / €1746.91 / £1472.82

Works by Sir Kyffin Williams (1918-2006) generated a combined £221,640 at Rogers Jones’ latest Welsh Sale.

The first Michelin guide was published in 1900 by the eponymous tyre company.

Popular toys event returns after Covid disruption and includes ex-Woburn Abbey festival

A few antiques businesses operate in garden centres but sadly one of these is closing.

As Sand, an Elizabethan house in east Devon which has been in the Huyshe family since 1560, is being sold for the first time in over 460 years, Chilcotts (21% buyer’s premium) dispersed much of the contents on July 16.

Offering a copy of the second of JK Rowling’s famous tales to be published, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets of 1998, a lot that featured in a July 16 sale held by Rogers Jones (24% buyer’s premium) was certainly an unusual one.

Two different dealers that started their businesses during lockdown are embarking on the next part of their careers.