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The owner of an antiques shop in a seaside town on Northern Ireland’s north coast is retiring next year and closing her business in May after nearly 50 years in the trade.

This particularly rare American issue of the 1939 Michelin Guide was specially commissioned by the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department in Washington D.C. during the Second World War.

Good sales and happy exhibitors as France’s showpiece fair moves from November to mid-September

Antiques and vintage street markets now proliferate in towns across the UK brightening up the high streets and offering extra selling options for dealers.

Having missed its usual August event while the venue was refurbished, The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair returns for the second time this year to Westonbirt School.

London jeweller Wartski has the perfect gift for Halloween: a late 17th century pendant fashioned from a lizard’s leg.

This English mahogany hall bench dating from the first quarter of the 19th century sailed well above estimate at a sale in New Milford, Connecticut.

On Friday, October 10, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $4000.28 / €3462.80 / £3007.73

The Scottish sculptor William Brodie (1825-81) began his working life as a plumber’s apprentice in Aberdeen.

The once much-loved antiques fair at Olympia, west London, has been cancelled due to a lack of interest from dealers.

A Madonna and Child painting catalogued as by an ‘Italian Old Master’ took an astonishing £685,000 hammer price at an auction in Banbury.

Azca Auctions in Hammersmith, west London, has announced new recruits following the departure of the founding directors earlier this summer.

A portrait of King Edward VI that sold at a Roseberys auction earlier this year has gone on public display at Hampton Court Palace.

A New York City antiquarian books hub involving three well-known big names has been established, creating something of a Manhattan powerhouse of the trade.

Stand-out decorative items by named artists with interesting back-stories were in demand at the latest The Decorative Fair in Battersea.