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This English mahogany hall bench dating from the first quarter of the 19th century sailed well above estimate at a sale in New Milford, Connecticut.

On Friday, October 10, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $4000.28 / €3462.80 / £3007.73

The Scottish sculptor William Brodie (1825-81) began his working life as a plumber’s apprentice in Aberdeen.

The once much-loved antiques fair at Olympia, west London, has been cancelled due to a lack of interest from dealers.

A Madonna and Child painting catalogued as by an ‘Italian Old Master’ took an astonishing £685,000 hammer price at an auction in Banbury.

Azca Auctions in Hammersmith, west London, has announced new recruits following the departure of the founding directors earlier this summer.

A portrait of King Edward VI that sold at a Roseberys auction earlier this year has gone on public display at Hampton Court Palace.

A New York City antiquarian books hub involving three well-known big names has been established, creating something of a Manhattan powerhouse of the trade.

Stand-out decorative items by named artists with interesting back-stories were in demand at the latest The Decorative Fair in Battersea.

A UK gun collector has consigned a target rife owned by legendary Victorian sharpshooter Annie Oakley to auction in East Sussex.

The botanist, artist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871) is thought to have been the first woman to have created a photograph and the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images.

Catherine Southon’s October 15 Fine Sale in Chislehurst includes this chalk caricature of the sculptor Cecil Gunthorp (1893-1983) done by one Henry Moore (1898-1986).

A private collection of children’s illustrated books formed over the past 50 years provided several stand-out lots in The Collector’s auction held by Catherine Southon (27.6% buyer’s premium inc VAT).

Organisers call it a day in the south coast town but other events they hold have experienced a rise in footfall

Just out of interest, the snuff box illustrated [19th century miser’s snuff box] in Letters, ATG No 2711, is not Scottish, but from a group of boxes made of Karelian Birch from the Finnish/Russian area in the Baltic region.