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Dealers welcome the return of Pop Up Vintage Fairs at the Business Design Centre in Islington.

The studio potter John Maltby (1936-2020) created this chess set shown right for the Millennium celebrations at the New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham.

In addition to its uniqueness and connection to the past, a big attraction to owning a piece of ancient jewellery is that it can still be worn.

American firms will be cramming nearly 20 sales into the fourth week of September

Highlights of Chiswick Auctions earlier this summer

Covid halts foreign exhibitors but 14th edition of Paris Parcours will run with resident dealers

The headline ‘Memories of big hitters of the auction world: Brooks, Came and Butler’ (Letters & Opinion ATG No 2507) is a little misleading.

We asked some of our longest-standing subscribers to share their memories of their early years of trading and how the launch of ATG changed their business.

A selection of the memorable news from ATG editions in the 2000s

This 16in (39cm) mid-18th century saltglazed stoneware bottle has two relief moulded medallions to the shoulder.

This rare Qianlong mark and period gold-ground famille-rose five-piece altar garniture (wu gong) carries an estimate of $600,000-800,000 at Sotheby’s on September 21.

Always a bonus for buyers is two fairs in the same venue on the same day.

John Dixon of Georgian Antiques in Leith defended his title won in 2019 in the annual Scottish Art Dealers (SAD) golf challenge at Bruntsfield Links Golfing Society in Edinburgh recently.

After 50 years of trading, Potburys Auctions in Sidmouth, Devon will close with the last sale scheduled for September 21.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including an update on the theft of £1.7m of Chinese jades.

I know absolutely nothing about renting business premises, but how gratifying to see Simon Franses, (News, ATG 2507), and his legal team beating down the greedy landlords of London’s West End and getting his rents reduced by 50%.

This week, while celebrating our 50th anniversary, we are also saying goodbye to one of the most popular members of the Gazette team.

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.

Bonhams’ (27.5/25% buyer’s premium) sale of Silver & Vertu included a number of Irish provincial pieces from the collection of Peter Ticher.