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Roy Raftery is a gaming cards dealer with Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s

Despite its name, a new exhibition, 'Ghost Objects: Summoning Leighton’s Lost Collection', at Leighton House in west London is not, in fact, a séance.

Over his career, the Flemish artist Hendrick van Balen (1573-1632) collaborated with a number of other artists, not least Rubens. Another was Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625).

A group of jewellery and art specialists headed to Grays Antiques in Mayfair for ‘champagne and macarons’ to celebrate the start of the Christmas season.

Pocket watches owned by Horatio Nelson, Thomas Hardy and Cuthbert Collingwood and consulted throughout the Battle of Trafalgar were sold together as a single lot in London on December 9.

The Distinguished Conduct Medal awarded to Private Samuel Vickery of the Coldstream Guards who kept Florence Nightingale safe during the Crimean War is to be offered at Noonans on January 14.

Despite some “spirited resistance,” antiquities dealer Rupert Wace has been coaxed into releasing a selection of ancient treasures and curios this festive season.

To mark the completion of its newly expanded space in the West End’s Cecil Court, Darnley Fine Art is presenting an exhibition on the so-called ‘lost’ Post-Impressionists Robert Deborne (1870-1944) and Henri Ottmann (1877-1927).

The company behind ‘micro’ fairs 'Trois Crayons' and 'Studiolo' has hired a full-time chief executive officer ahead of expansion plans.

The latest Old Master auctions in London produced the highest total for a December series for seven years.

While Alan Turing has for some time now quite rightly received credit for his work at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, the contributions of the women who worked there can still be overlooked.

As well as a busy life as a dealer, Karen Stuckey also finds time to organise the Wanstead Vintage Fair which runs four times a year.

An oil of a scarlet ibis by Philip Reinagle (1749-1833) is among the works starring at Rafael Valls this month.

London art gallery Shapero Modern rounds off its year with a trio of events.

The ever-ebullient Michael Collins, managing director of market operator Sherman & Waterman, is even fizzier than usual, saying that 2025 was a “landmark year for us with the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Jubilee Antiques Market in Covent Garden, formally opened by the late Queen in 1987”.

Venue refurbishment made 2025 a tricky period but the book events are steaming ahead