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HMRC will increase the fees for anti-money laundering (AML) supervision.

The 23-year-old auction record for Mouseman furniture has been broken by Hawleys at Beverley Racecourse, Yorkshire.

It is apparently not unusual for Christie’s to receive approaches from people claiming to have a work by a great Renaissance master.

Newbury auction house Dreweatts has hired Henry House from Sotheby’s.

A pocket watch belonging to a first-class passenger who lost his life on the Titanic was hammered down at £1.5m, or £1.78m including 22.5% buyer’s premium.

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.

A UK gallery or institution will need to raise £280,000 plus VAT to acquire a work by Henri-Joseph François, Baron De Triqueti, before it leaves the country.

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.