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This Doll et Cie four-seater open touring car toy, c.1920s, is a live-steam model made in Germany.

Toys from the private collection of Sue Pearson, the UK’s leading dealer in antique and vintage teddy bears and soft toys, were offered in Newbury.

Published in 1862, one exceptional lot in a Californian sale that focused on food and drink was billed as “The Canonical Text in Bartending”.

Simon MacLachlan owns and runs Piccadilly Vaults, a relative newcomer to the fine jewellery scene based in London’s Piccadilly Arcade. Founded in 2017, it is named after the wall of working bank vaults installed in the basement.

Thank you for the fun tea towel [to mark ATG’s 50th anniversary].

A couple of Modern British works on paper drew keen attention at a recent West Sussex auction.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week

I read with great interest, and trepidation, the article for 'A Lawyer Writes' in ATG no 2504 (‘Diligence: relying on others leaves you at risk’).

On the evening of July 29 the antiquarian community lost one of its great champions and luminaries, Jan Ellen Finch, after a characteristically courageous and defiant battle against cancer.

Distinctive steeple cups are scarce but an Elizabethan silver example came to market at a Somerset auction house

Bid to £1500 in a Norfolk sale was a 1930 first of The Savoy Cocktail Book.

A snuff box believed to have been gifted by Lord Nelson to his personal secretary during a dinner party attended by Emma Hamilton has been sold by Paul Fraser Collectables for £45,000.

Hotlotz in Singapore holds a single-owner online auction on August 22 featuring the ‘property of a gentleman’.

After just three weeks of trading in July at their newly opened showroom in the Grade II-listed Corn Exchange in Tunbridge Wells, dealers Chrissie and John Masters of the Design Gallery have made brisk sales to new customers for their Art Deco pieces.

Demand for anything to do with Concorde is always high but a huge ‘museum quality’ model at Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) had an extra touch.

A silver sale at Woolley & Wallis (25/12% buyer’s premium) this summer included a selection of 24 snuff boxes from the Lion collection – as published in 'British Silver Boxes 1640-1840, The Lion Collection' (2015).

Pre-1950s Mary Fedden works are stylistically different to her later still-lifes and coastal subjects

The Petersfield Antiques Fair, which was scheduled to take place in Hampshire this September, has been called off.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of Rago Wright buying LA Modern Auctions.

One of the finest European railway toy collections built in the US generated a suitably enthusiastic response when it came to auction.