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Like his father of the same name, Thomas Miles Richardson Jnr (1813-90) began his career in Newcastle but he moved to London in 1846.

Among the sales at 'An Eye into the Ancient Past', the collaborative exhibition from Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch and Claire Brown Art, was this attic black-figure amphora, dated to 500BC.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions held on thesaleroom.com

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Previously unrecorded view by the Italian scenic painter now joins six others of Naples already known

Collecting genre is being boosted by fresh bidders with deep pockets who work in the technology sector

Leica cameras of rather different dimensions to normal clicked into action at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

A group of drawings which helped develop the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a UK buyer can step in.

African-American artists and makers from the Deep South of the US are the focus for The Gallery of Everything’s summer show.

Just as stereoscope images became a Victorian collecting craze, another notable photographic fad of the era was the carte de visite

Carolina Valdés Vignoli of Carol Tresor concentrates on collectors’ pieces of mineralogical interest and shipwreck pottery. She is preparing an exhibition of minerals in September at the LAPADA fair in Mayfair.

Horology expert Jonathan Carter of the Carter Marsh dealership in Winchester has died.

A new auction record for the Wade factory was set by Potteries Auctions in Stoke-on-Trent when this monumental 3ft 10in (1.15m) high figure made for the 1951 Festival of Britain sold at £4200.

An early book on cricket from the library of commentator John Arlott has been acquired for the British Library from London dealership Peter Harrington.

A fragmentary shabti with a cartouche for the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten proved a highlight of Bonhams’ latest Antiquities sale.