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The latest Modern and Contemporary art auctions in London raised a combined £97.8m. This compared to £132.3m from the equivalent series last year.

A copper button, made in 1852 as part of the effort to find survivors of the doomed Franklin expedition to the Arctic, has sold at auction for £6000.

The latest saleroom round-up including news of Stockholms Auktionsverk acquiring fellow Swedish auction house Uppsala Auktionskammare

A Victorian silver centrepiece sculpted by Alfred Brown for Hunt & Roskell has returned to its ancestral home after more than 120 years.

LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair is returning on October 28-November 2.

The ‘quintessential’ Cotswolds property Ready Token House near Cirencester has had an interesting recent history.

The latest news from around auction houses, dealers and conservation specialists

An 18th century violin has been stolen from a member of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra and the Met Police are hoping to trace their chief suspect.

A scarce copy of a pioneering photograph book showing views of the Norfolk Broads has been consigned to south London saleroom Roseberys.

A group of bronze statues have been stolen from a manor house in Wiltshire during a jazz festival.

A new one-day multi-dealer venture opens in central London this week.

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week