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Fair organisers are now planning for the spring and summer as the roadmap to ease coronavirus restrictions in England allows outdoor events to be held from April.

This copper alloy and champleve enamel brooch would once have graced the chariot of an Iron Age chieftain.

Kensington and Chelsea Council is launching a new five-year plan for Portobello Road Market and is asking the trade to submit feedback.

A Surrey clockmaker has made a replica of a celebrated English barometer that is now lost.

Introduced in 1960, the Bulova Accutron 214 was among the first commercially successful electronic watch.

This rare 1940s Longines British military issue is appropriately nicknamed the ‘tuna can.’

One 1870s Thomas Hardy work that was hated by the Spectator magazine critic, the other hailed

West Country-based fair organiser Cooper Events is targeting a late spring return following the government announcement that hospitality venues would be permitted to reopen indoors as part of ‘stage three’ of its timetable for easing Covid-19 restrictions in England.

Little is known about the life of British artist William James (f.1754-71) other than he painted topographical views and may have been one of Canaletto’s studio assistants while the Venetian was visiting England.

Rolex made the reference 6150 Oyster Perpetual Explorer for around two years after the 1953 Everest expedition. It is believed that Tensing Norgay wore a prototype of the watch, the first Explorer model to have the Mercedes hands, while completing the ascent.

Contained in an old buckram folder, a collection of scouting ephemera proved a highlight of a sale of books and ephemera held in Chichester.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Howard Walwyn Fine Antique Clocks in Kensington Church Street has been transformed into 18th century Toledo for a bedroom farce.

Traditional high-society portrait by Sir Oswald Birley finds modern-day auction fans including an overseas buyer

The Oysterdate Monte Carlo series were the first chronographs produced by Tudor.

Given a modest estimate of £100-150 in a January 3 sale at Oxfordshire auction house Jones & Jacob (18% buyer’s premium), an edition of Hero & Leander published in 1949 by Christopher Sandford sold instead at £1500.

Adrian Gilmour, co-owner of the Hungerford Arcade, is thrilled at news that non-essential retail can reopen in April.

Dealer Sim rates this little-known painter so highly he calls him ‘the English Van Gogh’

Bonhams is to auction the remaining stock of the long-established London Chinese art dealership Roger Keverne.