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The private collection of silver specialist Michael Baggott, who died unexpectedly in January, is to be offered for sale at Woolley & Wallis.

A hitherto unrecorded Art Deco masterwork by Armand-Albert Rateau (1882-1938) caught the eye at an Italian sale.

An Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet panel bought at a Spink auction last year and blocked from export will stay in the UK after a successful crowdfunding campaign by a local history trust.

What is touted as the UK’s largest private collection of antique apothecary objects will be sold by the Cotswold Auction Company as part of a sale in Cirencester on June 24-25.

Sutton Coldfield dealer Thomas Coulborn & Sons has sold another artwork to a US museum following a major art fair.

One of only three known surviving copies of a rare 1644 century Chinese woodblock map has been bought by The Sunderland Collection.

Art and antiques dealers from Treasure House Fair are part of the latest WOW!house installation which opened last week.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including fundraising for a Dame Barbara Hepworth sculpture.

Doulton designs consigned by a descendant demonstrate the ceramicist’s great glaze achievement

Bibles from the Mulberry House sold well at Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet

Before hitting stratospheric heights, US grunge rockers Nirvana were playing on a European tour in late 1991 in front of crowd of 700 at one point.

In 1962, Lord John Hope, the Minister of Works in the Macmillan government commissioned David Mellor (1930-2009) to ‘supply silver you have designed to every British embassy in the world’.

A diminutive Queen Anne walnut longcase signed by Christopher Gould (c.1655-1718) made $25,000 (£18,645) against a guide of $2000-3000 at Locati (25% buyer’s premium) in Pineville, Pennsylvania.

Two pieces of pre-war Orrefors glass were consigned from a Bloomfield Hills, Michigan estate for sale at DuMouchelles (24% buyer’s premium) in Detroit.

The difficulties at the top end of the Modern and Contemporary art market were very much in evidence at the latest flagship auction series in New York.

Seafaring man-turned dealer in nauticalia, Robin Langford is searching for reasonably priced shop premises near St Ives where he deals online as Clipper Maritime.

Two paintings of trademark male nudes by British artist William Etty (1789-1849) emerged in a US saleroom as part of the collection of a university lecturer.

The Saunders collection seems to have been the consignment that Sotheby’s could not afford to lose.

While Sotheby’s Saunders’ sale met with a tepid response in terms of bidding due to the high estimates, more competition was witnessed at Christie’s two Old Master auctions in New York at the end of May.