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Dealers have voiced their concern at changes to the next staging of The Winter Art & Antiques Fair at Olympia.

This bright-eyed and bushy-tailed claret jug designed in 1882 by Alexander Crichton sold at a hammer price of £36,000 at Tennants of North Yorkshire.

It was billed as the “first ever $100m collection of Old Masters to come to auction” but the Saunders sale at Sotheby’s New York on May 22 came in significantly below expectations.

A Roman marble sculpture thought by its vendors to be a garden statue turned heads at Toovey’s where it sold earlier this month.

The first part of an auction series offering a remarkable array of coins buried in Europe for over 50 years to prevent them from being looted during Nazi invasion kicked off with a focus on British and colonial milled coins from Charles II to George V.

There has been a shake-up of the global leadership team at auction house Phillips.

Stelios Galatopoulos (1932-2022) was a respected Greek music critic (Cypriot-born) who was based in London.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a group of eight antiquities being returned to Peru after a US investigation

Sotheby’s Geneva offered a collection of 30 Fabergé animals from the Castle Howard estate in a timed online sale ending May 16.

Christie’s has announced a major highlight for its Old Masters evening sale in London on July 1.

Like many English joiners of his time, not a great deal is known about the private life of Gerrit Jensen.

On Friday, May 23, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $3331.26 / €2937.18 / £2467.60

There’s no denying that we live in uncertain times. The impact of recent financial turmoil has hit dealers and collectors alike.

A very early enamel map of the London Underground will be unveiled at a specialist fair next month.

Like Toulouse Lautrec, Ramon Casas y Carbo (1866-1932) was not only an avant-garde artist but a master poster maker and graphic designer.

A well-documented George III eight-drawer drum library table attributed to Gillows hammered for $75,000 (£56,300) at Andrew Jones (25% buyer’s premium) in Los Angeles.

Shown here is a 1st Pattern Fairbairn Sykes fighting knife by Wilkinson, London that belonged to Major Charles George Gibson ‘Pat’ Riley DCM (1915-99), one of the founding members of ‘L’ Detachment, SAS Brigade in 1941.