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ATG talks to companies Prime Lane, Bradleys, Gander & White and ROKBOX to gauge opinion on the impact of US and EU tariffs and rules

With the increase in regulation and bureaucracy there are opportunities for new firms to try to solve issues and fix problems.

Asian Art in London annually celebrates outstanding examples of art and antiques offered by auction houses and dealers through a series of awards. Here are the items shortlisted this year in the three award categories.

Sending stuff... it affects everyone in the trade, from dealers to auction houses, and of course vendors and buyers. But it’s an ecosystem where changes in rules across the world can often make life very difficult. How does it all work and what are the challenges?

The sale at Harper Field in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, on November 4-5 includes 14 pieces of Wedgwood Arts & Crafts creamware painted by Alfred Powell with scenes relating to Cherington Park, Tetbury and the surrounding area.

Four saucers in the rare Copeland Spode R4332 pattern associated with RMS Titanic prompted fierce bidding at two regional salerooms in the space of a fortnight.

The minimum lot values beloved of auctioneers’ accountants have come more and more into play just at a time when areas of the ceramics market have softened.

Lowestoft Porcelain Auctions, founded by Russell Sprake in 1984 and continued since his death by his wife Zoe, is holding a single-factory sale on October 21.

A family collection of faience ceramics attracted worldwide interest at auction in Zurich

The descendants of a Boer War soldier succeeded in buying a rare medal group at Kinghams (26% buyer’s premium) in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, returning the awards to family ownership for the first time in 100 years.

A Victoria Cross that was awarded posthumously to a member of the Manchester Regiment who is buried in the same row as war poet Wilfred Owen is coming to auction in London.

Presumably planned purchases rather than on the hoof, three unusual equine relics of the Battle of Waterloo appeared in separate salerooms within the same month.

Recent auctions in this market suggest decent demand with plenty of highlights from two periods in particular

An attractive archive offered by Lymington Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) on July 9 included medals and ephemera relating to the Lawrence family.

Coinex returns to Grosvenor Square this month with 50 exhibitors and a raft of auctions.

Journalist Lucinda Bredin and her husband, author James Runcie, have developed tulip-mania. The couple, who married last year, have begun growing tulips and collecting tulipieres and vases.

A century on from the first Grand Prix in the UK, collectors are still competing for a share of motor-racing’s early memorabilia.

This 1920s advertising poster for Halifax Building Society features the text 'You choose the House We find the Money'.

A fine and rare example of Cassandre’s advertising work came up at Swann Auction Galleries (32/27/17% buyer’s premium) of New York.

A specialist auction house in Dorset was able to offer an array of sought-after Art Deco French posters by the renowned designer AM Cassandre