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A small oil painting discovered among the contents of a Leamington Spa property sold for many multiples of its estimate at Kinghams (23% buyer’s premium).

Samplers made by siblings or generations of the same family can attract a significant commercial premium.

Only a handful of companies have created products with sufficient impact that their brand names become generic descriptions for objects of their type.

Nearly 200 items of Al Capone memorabilia are coming to the market for the first time after being consigned to a California auction by his granddaughters.

The former mill town of Burnley in Lancashire is better known for its Premier League football team these days than its history.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of a the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair (NYIABF) being cancelled because of the ongoing pandemic.

The best-performing entry of the Lindsay Burns (20% buyer’s premium) sale in Perth on July 20-22 against estimate was a militaria lot.

The grand surroundings of two historic central London buildings are ready to welcome the return of art and antiques buyers and collectors this autumn when two in-person fairs finally take place.

Auction Team Breker is holding its first sale of the autumn season on September 24-25 in Cologne.

George Eliot’s much-admired novel 'Middlemarch…' made its first appearance in a parts issue in 1871.

Richard Winterton Auctioneers is expanding in Staffordshire with the opening of a new saleroom in Tamworth this autumn.

The record for American ceramics – previously held by Salisbury’s Woolley & Wallis – was smashed this month by a ‘Dave the Slave’ jar.

The Robin Simpson (1940-2020) collection of British commemorative ceramics comes for sale next month.

Hannam’s in Selborne, Hampshire, has achieved a new house record with the sale of this Qing famille rose vase for £520,000 (plus buyer’s premium).

A Cambridgeshire dealer has launched a customs clearance and advisory service aimed at dealers and collectors who buy in post-Brexit Europe.

This otherwise humble 1914 Star acquired great historical resonance in the knowledge it was awarded to Private John Parr of the 4th Battalion, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment).

Cheshire Police have issued CCTV images of two men they would like to speak to in connection with a theft at an antiques centre in Northwich.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of a Saxon gold coin expected to fetch up to £200,000 at an upcoming sale.

This large 3ft 11in x 6ft 3in (1.2 x 1.91m) marine picture, painted by French Impressionist Karl Daubigny (1846-86), shows fisherfolk in Normandy loading a traditional fishing vessel with kelp and oysters.