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Naïve-style paintings of livestock remain one of the liveliest sectors of the 19th century pictures market, judging by the response to several examples offered in Gloucestershire.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days.

Personal and unique insights into warfare score highly at auction. So it proved at Cambridge firm Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) in The Connoisseurs Sale on July 6, when a journal revealing the private thoughts of a Second World War fighter ace credited with more enemy ‘kills’ than any other British pilot doubled the top estimate to sell for £16,000.

Back in December 1962, a Yorkshire show promoter booked a new Liverpool band to play at Harrogate’s Royal Hall on the strength of their first record which had charted at No 17 a couple of months earlier.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

A month after the British Museum’s hugely popular Hokusai exhibition in London finished, another Japanese master of the woodblock print is on show at a New York gallery.

A lawsuit filed against Christie’s highlights the legal questions over when the legal title of a work transfers, writes Milton Silverman.

Medals and orders can be heavy things. So what better way to carry around your various hard-earned gongs than a one-size-fits-all miniature version of them all?

Operations behind enemy lines was the theme linking two special forces medals groups sold by London auction house Spink (20% buyer’s premium) on July 26.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

So enamoured was Deco dealer Bill Jones of Style 1900 with the biannual Art Deco fairs held in the Great Hall at Eltham Palace in south London that he started his own: in Norfolk and East Sussex.

MADAM – I’m glad ATG enjoys the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? programme so much to give it front page coverage plus a double-page spread in ATG No 2304.

London dealership Marchant is to sell Chinese artworks at a dedicated auction in New York.

Considering there were only 150 men defending Rorke’s Drift against the Zulus, an impressive number of medals awarded after that epic 1879 encounter have come to auction recently.

Chiswick Auctions is to open its South Kensington showroom manned by a group of former Christie’s staff early next month.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period August 10-17, 2017. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

Working as a dealer can mean long, solitary hours but it can also be a collaborative pursuit. Here, ATG highlights the work of three from around that trade whose work brings them into regular contact with the wonderful world of art and antiques dealers. Our spotlight falls on a marketer, artist and photographer who are the ‘added extras’.

In our continuing series looking through the keyhole of ‘bricks and mortar’ shops, ATG talks to Tino Quaradeghini, who opened Regent Antiques in 1980.