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Coinex, the most important event on the British calendar for many serious coin collectors, opens at the Biltmore Hotel in Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square on September 26-27

From October 28-31 the Worshipful Company of Turners is hosting Wizardry in Wood 2025 – its quadrennial celebration of woodturning and wood art – at Plaisterers’ Hall in London.

The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park is celebrating 40 years in business and the autumn edition on September 30 to October 5, is expected to attract a star-studded crowd as usual.

Noonans’ sale of Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria in London on September 10 was led by an exceptional 18th century gold and enamel jewel.

The national flag of India on offer at west London saleroom Lots Road in a Two Day Fine Interiors Auction was by the appearance alone seemingly nothing special.

Wartski’s Katherine Purcell stages a museum-quality loan exhibition devoted to the history and the magnificence of a classic jewellery form

Having gone from Newark International Antiques Fair to the West End’s Cecil Court, art and antiques dealer Adrian Pett is now expanding his business into a 1400 sq ft two-floor gallery.

Launched in 2009, the annual 'London Antique & Vintage Textile Fair' run by the Textile Society will welcome 60-plus dealers to Chelsea Old Town Hall on Sunday, October 12, where the room will be crammed with textiles from the sedate 18th century to the swinging 1960s.

Such a spark has been ignited by Mark Farhall’s pop-up Giant London Fleas held in the car park at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park sports complex in Hackney, east London, that he’s launching another.

On September 24-25, Lyon & Turnbull presents The Secret Life of Props: The Eccentric Trading Collection, a two-day single-owner auction of items that have shaped British film and television for a generation.

Who best to ask about how the fair has evolved than Wakelin & Linfield, stalwarts since the very first?

Head from your local cinema to London’s Piccadilly: jeweller Bentley & Skinner is offering 13 pieces featured in the new film Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale.

From electronics to furniture, Dieter Rams laid the foundations for modern industrial design

A gold pendant, Tête aux Seins, by Max Ernst is one of the artist-made jewels starring at Louisa Guinness Gallery’s Surrealist Jewels 101 show.

Art dealer Karen Taylor has sold two oil sketches by Gainsborough Dupont (1754-97) to the British Museum.