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Shortly after the production of the first batch of his jasperware abolitionist medallion, Josiah Wedgwood sent a package to Benjamin Franklin with a covering letter dated February 1788 saying: “I embrace the opportunity to inclose [sic] for the use of your Excellency and friends, a few Cameos on a subject I am happy to acquaint you is daily more and more taking possession of men’s minds on this side of the Atlantic as well as with you.

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

A key work by the Anglo-German studio potter Hans Coper (1920-81) has been found in a garden in London.

The Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on February 19 included this striking tribal mask from central Africa.

It’s not often that you find a Concorde cockpit, a Victorian pharmacy and a butcher’s shop appearing at the same sale.

Paris auction house Tajan is to sell a previously lost and unpublished work by German artist Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869).

Turned down by several publishers, Beatrix Potter shouldered the expense of privately printing The Tale of Peter Rabbit with Strangeways Printers in December 1901.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a sand-scratched suitcase belonging to the Egyptologist Howard Carter offered in North Yorkshire

When photography aficionado Janette Rosing (1942-2021) died, Pierre Spake wrote of her in an obituary in ATG (No 2485): “Like all true collectors she pushed the limits of her budget, often exceeding it."

Tommy nearly made the supreme sacrifice to support the Allied cause in the Second World War.

On Friday, February 21, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2940.11 / €2795.80 / £2515.05

Anniversary of the movement inspires exhibitors attending the next show at Birmingham's NEC