UK

A 1963 first UK issue of The Amazing Spider-Man comic – the first to solely focus on the superhero – appeared at a recent auction at Ewbank’s.

Crane Kalman Gallery is staging an exhibition celebrating the work of British painter Mary Newcomb (1922-2008).

Four monumentally sized paintings from the Soviet school emerged at auction in Gloucestershire.

A ‘never-before-seen’ painting by Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) drew prolonged competition at Cheffins’ latest sale in Cambridge.

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art is currently hosting an exhibition of drawings and watercolours by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) until March 7.

A collection of works owned by the late BBC Antiques Roadshow expert and former director at Christie’s, Hugo Morley-Fletcher (1940-2022), has been consigned to Roseberys.

A Flemish Old Master lost to scholars for almost a century has emerged from a private source at Woolley & Wallis.

This rare English mineral water bottle sold for £19,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) at Griffin’s Auctioneers in Warwick on February 25.

A draft of a composition by Edward Elgar has been acquired by the British Library in a deal organised through Christie’s.

An autograph letter from Bonnie Prince Charlie was among a group of Jacobite relics discovered among a wide array of antiques during a Georgian townhouse clearance.

Today it’s one of the world’s most populous and modernised cities but the Shanghai Albert ‘Bert’ Aiers would have found in the early 1900s would have been very different indeed.

A gold stater of king Caratacus (15-54AD) that broke the record for a single Iron Age coin at auction in 2020 is returning to auction on March 12.