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Auction house Aldridges of Bath has gone into liquidation owing more than £377,000.

There was some good old fashioned auction drama in Ruislip on October 7 when a loose sapphire hammered for £332,000, a house record for any of the Adam Partridge salerooms.

A new benchmark for a Mouseman carving has been set by Tennants’ 20th Century Design department.

The Gordon Russell Design Museum in Broadway, Worcestershire ran a successful campaign to purchase a Lygon brass alms dish by the English designer and craftsman that came to auction in West Sussex last week.

Gloucestershire auctioneers Dominic Winter posted a new house record last week when a violin used by Albert Einstein during his late teens and early adult life hammered for £860,000.

Evans family collection of William De Morgan pottery brings keen interest at Martel Maides in St Peter Port

Lot 586 at Henry Aldridge’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest sale was one of the more curious lots to appear at auction in recent times.

A Tudor coin hoard found by a Hampshire couple while gardening will be sold at auction in Switzerland next month.

While prices for the painter Dod Procter (1891-1972) have been rising over the last decade or so, a big jump in terms of her auction record came at Bonhams latest sale of works by Modern British women artists.

The 300th anniversary of the birth of the English radical journalist and politician John Wilkes (1725-97) on October 17 is being marked by a small exhibition featuring items from the personal collection and stock of dealer Timothy Millett.

In the midst of the Second World War, the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) produced a series of small sculptural reliefs on the theme of mothers protecting their children.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

A classic early 1930s Mouseman recliner came for sale at a recent event held at Clevedon Auctions (22% buyer’s premium) near Bristol.

Just 30 figures from single owner collection offered in Cheshire saleroom rack up nearly £60,000 total

An original printing plate for one of the best-known images of the abolitionist movement emerged at a recent Forum Auctions (27% buyer’s premium) sale in London.

A number of high prices for works modelled on or inspired by ancient sculpture were recorded at different auctions last month.

A number of restoration specialists have spoken out about the National Gallery’s plan to sell some of its furniture at auction.

Selected Items from the Lynch House in Kensworth near Dunstable, home to the Rubin family of dealers for nearly 80 years, was offered in Dreweatts’ Fine Furniture, Sculpture, Carpets, Ceramics and Works of Art sale on September 10.