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On Friday, March 19, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1737.20 / €1458.74 / £1246.79

Major Henry Milligan of the Royal Army Medical Corps not only won a Military Cross for bravery in the First World War in 1917, but gained another one.

Medal group awarded to First World War nurse is coming up at Bishop & Miller auction.

Soldiers are often associated with hard drinking – but rarely temperance.

John Faber’s mezzotint version of a portrait by John Vanderbank of Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739), a celebrated blind scientist and mathematician, was bid to 10 times the high estimate in a Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) general clear-out sale.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

Collector’s daughter describes what it was like to grow up amid huge musical machines

Walter Sickert (1860-1942) first met Cicely Hey at a public lecture in 1923. The very next day Hey arrived at his studio in Fitzroy Street and continued to sit for Sickert over the next decade.

This late 19th century English part-ebonised mahogany library table is among the items of antique furniture included in Ahlers & Ogletree’s two-day sale in Atlanta on March 27-28.

A bronze figure of Mars from the studio of Giambologna will be one of the highlights in a sale of furniture, paintings, sculpture and works of art to be held at Drouot by L’Huillier on April 2.

This elaborate still-life featuring a vase containing a rich variety of flowers including roses, peonies and tulips, is a work by Maria van Oosterwyck (1630-93), a 17th century Dutch golden age female artist who specialised in still-life subjects.

“I’m counting the days,” said a happy Mike Collins, director of market operator Sherman & Waterman as he ticks off the reopening dates for his antiques and vintage markets, centre and car boot.

The postponed January auction at Gloucestershire saleroom Chorley’s will take place on March 23-24.

A Second World War beret sold at a Kent auction was not only one of the famous maroon British paratrooper examples but had star billing of its own.

Stained glass windows by Morris, Marshall and Faulkner impress at auction

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic caused the global art market to contract by nearly a quarter.

Items assembled by well-known antiques dealer Ted Few will go under the hammer at London auction house Roseberys.

Princess Margaret’s lover Flight Lieutenant Peter Townsend (1914-95) has been introduced to a new generation of TV viewers due to Netflix TV series The Crown – but militaria lots sold at auction also underline his renown as an RAF ace.

Collection offered in London auction included Agatha Christie and other crime classics

Updates on the Oswestry Showground, Bath markets and Sue Ede’s Giant Flea.