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Two items of diamond jewellery achieved record sums for UK salerooms Duke’s and Elmwoods this week.

The second edition of the London fair Studiolo has been announced.

Longstanding Pimlico Road dealer Ossowski is thought to have closed with a liquidation auction held on the premises.

Lord Ashcroft’s collection of Victoria Crosses and George Crosses, the largest of its kind in the world, is to have a new home at the National Army Museum in west London.

A dramatic competition came for a Mannerist battle scene that emerged at Wimbledon Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) two-day sale on March 2-3.

A large amount of silver objects were taken from a village church in Hertfordshire including two chalices, a silver communion flagon, a silver plate and a box of other silver objects.

Serena Williams-Ellis, a former Christie’s specialist who became an antiques dealer then interior designer, owned and decorated Ardbraccan House in County Meath, Ireland for the past decade.

British jewellery and interior designer Jade Jagger, the daughter of Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger and his former wife Bianca, is selling works from her collection at Sworders.

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

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of auction house Dreweatts revealing a 26% increase in annual turnover

For more than 25 years, some people in the art world have been pondering one question: who is Banksy?