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Key to the success of the London Map Fair was an international outlook combined with keeping it local.

Not everything offered in the model railway market has to involve a glamorous name such as Flying Scotsman to make a good result.

Being a devil is profitable for a Pelham Puppet.

Showing little sign of their huge popularity slowing down, Star War figures made a significant contribution to a two-day TV and film-related auction.

Refugee artist provided first-hand experience of cutting edge style

BADA dealer Timothy Millett, a specialist in historical medals and related works of art, has been collecting ‘defaced’ coins and tokens for many years. He first saw one as a teenager when working at the venerable London firm AH Baldwin in the late 1970s.

When it comes to timed online auctions, timing is everything.

Novelty biscuit tin toys delivered a number of tasty sale successes for South Yorkshire auction house BBR (15% buyer’s premium).

When the (Louis) Marx toy company produced a friction-drive model Batmobile in the 1960s the plastic car that resulted was really a model of the 1951 General Motors Le Sabre concept show car designed by Harley Earl.

It is not just Star Wars figures or film posters bringing the big bucks.

Widely varying plans outlining a faraway harbour and a slice of rural Yorkshire bring saleroom surprises

The owners of an antiques centre in a large leisure and shopping village near Stowmarket in Suffolk are opening a second branch nearby just two years after the first one welcomed its first buyers.

Asian Art in London’s summer edition returns this year for its second outing.

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

New organiser reveals strong trade interest and visitor pre-bookings for the eagerly awaited event

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

A new antiques centre has opened in a former Baptist chapel in Newark.