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Sim Fine Art’s annual catalogue Holding the Line devoted to British war art is now in its 16th year.

Highlights of what dealers taking part in Asian Art in London (October 29 to November 10) have to offer, from Company school sunbirds to a Sikh chakrum

Like father, like son. Antiques dealer Mark Goodger has welcomed his son Jake into the business and they exhibited at their first fair together as colleagues at Battersea’s The Decorative Fair.

Kicking off the Frieze week auctions in London, Christie’s dedicated evening sale of works from the collection of British fashion magnate Peter Simon, the founder of the Monsoon fashion chain, raised £107.5m including premium.

Rare specimen banknotes from around the world donated to a British Heart Foundation (BHF) shop in Edinburgh have raised £85,860 in total at auction to help fund research.

This 17th century Irish marriage locket was probably a gift from Robert Coppinger to his new wife Margarett in 1660.

Among the most eagerly contested lots in the Historical Documents, Autographs and Ephemera sale at Spink (22.5% buyer’s premium) in London was one including two letters written by a sailor while aboard HMS Northumberland when she carried Napoleon Bonaparte into exile in 1815.

Latest British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery wins praise from standholders for an ‘enormously busy’ edition

‘I try to buy something with a little magic’ says Dutchman who deals in fine English period furniture

Hansord Antiques was founded in 1972 by David Hansord, joined later by his son John. Over the years it has traded from a number of premises including originally in the centre of Lincoln on Castle Hill.

A raft of new and returning dealers have signed up for this autumn’s LAPADA Fair in Berkeley Square from October 27 to November 1.

Copy of revised 1633 edition of Gerard’s famous botanical work The Herball stands out in west London

Asian Art in London annually celebrates outstanding examples of art and antiques offered by auction houses and dealers through a series of awards. Here are the items shortlisted this year in the three award categories.

Japanese artist Kusama’s set of lithographs with signature motifs demonstrates more affordable way to collect

Famously, the academic ‘Hierarchy of Genres’ set out a pecking order for different types of painting.

Online purchases during the pandemic started an unplanned career in the trade and now a first exhibition.