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Flavio Gianassi of FG Fine Art specialises in Italian Old Master paintings and is among the dealers standing at the TEFAF Maastricht Showcase this year

What Special Auction Services (20% buyer’s premium) in Newbury billed as “the largest and most valuable doll collection to been seen at auction for 25 years” went under the hammer on February 22 with a further slice to come in April.

As with many 1980s toys, the Thundercats range was produced to accompany a TV or film series.

Kent Battle of Britain Museum bought a fragment of wreckage believed to be from the last plane f lown by pioneering British aviator Amy Johnson in 1941, it has been revealed.

Dawsons’ (25% buyer’s premium) Fine Jewellery, Watches & Silver sale included this Art Nouveau gem-set foliage panel ring by Henri Dubret (1872-1947).

Despite specialising in Modern art, Tommaso Calabro hopes to snag some Old Master collectors at his first TEFAF.

Re: ‘New Name is a Worthless Choice’, Letters, ATG No 2632). Daniel Fearon, as a regular visitor to the department, should know better than most that ‘money’ better describes the collection than ‘coins’ which is quite restrictive.

At the peak of his fame, the Anglo-Italian jewellery designer Andrew Grima was invited by Omega to create what would become the About Time collection.

Roseberys’ sale of Modern British & 20th Century art on March 12 will include works from the collection of Bernard Sheridan (1927-2007).

Maxine Stonehill of Pop Up Vintage Fairs has added two new locations in London to her list of fairs this year.

One hundred and fifty years ago this year the ‘Ladies of Chislehurst’ [sic] presented this inkstand to the Prince Imperial, the son of Napoleon III, for his 21st birthday.

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

The owner of a 19th century Ethiopian shield has decided to withdraw it from auction at Anderson & Garland.

Collection of dealers who founded a shop and popular brand is up for sale next month in Sussex, offering more than 600 lots in a dedicated sale

The high-flyer in Dreweatts’ (26/25/20/15% buyer’s premium) sale of the contents of Collections from Cairness House and a Wimpole Street townhouse was the set of six Chippendale chairs made for Brocket Hall that sold for £95,000 (see News, ATG No 2629).

John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium) Fine Paintings sale in Fernhurst on February 20 included a good example of The Pictorial Missionary Map of the World - a rarity that appears at auction perhaps once in every decade.

Our selection of lots from 12 upcoming UK auctions

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the repatriation of medieval Nepalese artefacts by a private collector in Belgium.

An Arctic fox fur owned and worn by a 1930s movie star dubbed Britain’s answer to Ginger Rogers turned heads at a Derby saleroom.

The aristocratic German artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer and translator Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt (1887-1969) is best known by his pen name. From 1914 he went simply by the pseudonym Alastair.