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The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) is launching a new fair in the East Midlands.

A rare visual record of a ‘legendary’ boxing match that took place in Gretna Green in 1816 drew a strong contest itself at an auction in North Yorkshire

The inaugural auction at Sotheby’s new headquarters at the Breuer Building in New York produced a series of fireworks, not least a record for any lot ever sold by the 281-year-old firm.

On the same day that Freeman’s Hindman announced it would rebrand simply as Freeman’s, the firm held a $2.5m two-part sale of Old Masters and 19th century European art.

A group of around 30 Old Masters from the collection of the late dealer Robert Compton Jones is being offered at Leonard Joel in Sydney on December 8.

Art and antiquities dealers Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch have sold two glass items to a US museum.

A painting by Dutch artist Gerrit Dou (1613-75) that has been in a British private collection since the 19th century will lead Christie’s Old Master evening sale in London next month.

If it sells, it will become one of the most expensive drawings ever sold.

Among the most interesting works on paper sold in the autumn sales around the UK was a First World War scene by a French artist.

A string of notable five and six-figure prices at the autumn art sales in the UK included a couple of ‘trademark’ Modern British pictures.

An enlarged copy of the original ‘His Masters Voice’ picture by Francis Barraud (1856-1924) is now on display at a museum in Rochester.

Creating the brews headlines this week is the story of a bottle of beer from 1875 that was bought at auction and is now being used to help create a fresh batch 150 years later.

A pair of Chinese huanghuali armchairs, formerly owned by a US Treasury official who became an economic adviser to Chairman Mao, were hammered down at £600,000.