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The market in Australia remains steady, maintaining good selling rates and some strong key areas

Newcastle auction house Anderson & Garland has new owners following a management buy-out by directors Fred Wyrley-Birch and Alison Orgill.

Christie’s will offer 62 works originally owned by the influential French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922) as part of its sales in Paris this autumn.

A ‘missing’ portrait miniature of Joseph Brant (1743-1807), the famous Mohawk ally of the British during the American Revolution, sold for Can$55,000 (£29,505) at auction in Canada. On the market for the first time at Waddington’s in Toronto on September 3, the 2in (5cm) watercolour on ivory portrait, came with a guide of Can$20,000-30,000. The price reached Can$67,850 when including buyer’s premium.

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas has acquired a bronze sculpture by Stefano Maderno (c.1571-1636) from art dealer Patricia Wengraf.

This rare skull stick or cravat pin was discovered at a valuation day in Oxfordshire.

A set of books purchased for less than £50 at a Cancer Research charity shop, and then immediately donated to an Oxfam store two doors down, were sold last week at auction for a hammer price of £2800.

The original ‘This is Anfield’ stadium tunnel sign from the Bill Shankly era has been sold at auction for more than seven times estimate.

Art dealer James Birch was brought up surrounded by art.

South London saleroom Roseberys is offering a collection of early spoons at its upcoming silver sale.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including an Anglo-Saxon mount, discovered by a metal detectorist, being blocked from export

Portrait miniatures by the renowned British artist face a different and difficult modern mindset

Neumeister (25% buyer’s premium), a stalwart of the German auction market, held its last auction in Munich this summer.

For over 300 years, 12 generations of the Liechti family in the northern Swiss town of Winterthur built clocks.

On Thursday, September 10, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold trading price of: $4375.29 / €3773.77 / £3240.96

The maps of 19th century cartographer, mapmaker and publisher John Tallis are described on the website of antiquarian map dealership Tooley Adams, a firm set up in 1982 selling original worldwide printed maps from the 15th to the 19th centuries, as “the last of the lavishly decorated and ornamental maps, considered to be works of art as well as geographically accurate”.