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This rare large Steiff brown-tipped mohair Teddy Clown bear offered by Special Auction Services (20% buyer’s premium) in its summer Fine Dolls, Teddy Bears & Traditional Toys Auction was once owned by a Josefina González González of Cuba.

Barry Potter and his family attended their first BP Fairs event following the sale of the business to Warners Group.

The Marklin ‘wagon within a wagon’ toy is a popular choice for collectors. Essentially this is a horsedrawn wagon that fits inside a railway wagon for transporting a long way.

Huge collection concentrates on a world before mass producing

Undaunted dealer takes over Isle of Wight antiques shop at age of 84 working alongside his daughters

Family archive features poem written by Alice author for the well-connected owner of a scrapbook

Demand for the distinctive portraits is rising among new and younger collectors, says specialist

A remarkable result for an unboxed group of plastic figures could be due to a ‘holy grail’ withdrawn set

Among the major dealers in portrait miniatures are Elle Shushan and Philip Mould & Company.

Despite a repainted face, and the arms and legs not being original, this William and Mary c.1690 English carved wooden doll still impressed a buyer enough for them to win her at a hammer price of £4600.

Enys House and Gardens in Penryn, west Cornwall, is the slightly mysterious backdrop to Nicki and Ralph Retallack’s biannual antiques and decorative fair with the second this year running on Saturday and Sunday, September 26-27.

It comes with very great sadness to announce the death of Anna Katherine Harvey Haughton (1937-2026), a figure so well known and loved by the art world, who died peacefully on August 9, surrounded by her family.

The highlight of the latest Militaria and Ethnographica sale at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) was an extraordinarily detailed first-hand account of shipwreck in the Indian Ocean.

Hartlebury Castle in Kidderminster was home to the bishops of Worcester for 1000 years, including Pope Clement III who refused Henry VIII his divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

For all their diminutive scale, the term ‘portrait miniature’ originally had nothing to do with size.