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The market presence of Sarah Biffin (1784-1850), a portrait miniaturist born without hands, arms and legs, has been rising over the past few years.

How can an enthusiast create a museum-quality collection without vast sums of money?

The team behind 2Covet has closed its events division, abandoning all plans to run fairs.

Bennie Gray is celebrating the long-awaited opening of the new Bond Street station in Mayfair.

A Dutch travelogue from the early years of Arctic exploration sold for £44,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Chiswick Auctions on October 26.

An exhibition of pictures comes to the next 'Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia' from an unexpected source: the auctioneer in antique woodworking tools David Stanley.

Documents were consigned among contents of a house owned by the Arkwright family

Specialist event focuses on a popular period when ‘some truly original ideas’ developed

Asian Art in London announced the winners of its latest awards at a gala party held in the Victoria and Albert Museum last week.

The fairs run by So Last Century stand out from the regular traditional antiques format

Highlight sales at the recent Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair included a collection of 40 stone and painted garden toadstools.

The biannual Heathrow Aircraft Enthusiasts Fair has been attracting collectors for 30 years and is now run by Carl McQuaide.

When Bill Speakman won his Victoria Cross on November 4, 1951, fighting beside him was Corporal John Pender.

A microscope used by Joseph Banks (1743-1820) on Captain Cook’s first Voyage of Discovery (1768-71) is going under the hammer estimated at £30,000-50,000 on November 1.

Despite wider economic uncertainty, prices for LS Lowry (1887-1976) seem to keep on rising.

The sale of Silver and Objects of Vertu at Bonhams Knightsbridge on October 20-21 was topped by a multi-estimate bid for a remarkable flatware service by Tiffany.

A Chinese jardiniere once used as a fish bowl by Horace Walpole (1717-97) is to return to his Strawberry Hill home.

Charles de Temple is much admired as a key figure in the British 1960s modernist movement – one of the designers who ushered bold and abstract jewellery to the forefront of fashion.

Coin dealer Patrick Deane first became interested in 17th and 18th century trade tokens in 1970 when working at Spink and Son. He sold his first collection of around 1250 pieces in 1984.