West Midlands

With new visitors, international buyers returning and a fresh look at events, the mood is upbeat

Royal Doulton design was produced on response to popular demand for eastern-style ceramics

Latest version of the NEC art and antiques event has established firm roots and is winning warm praise

Cadbury's advertising sign on offer in Staffs saleroom

Many collectors own examples of Palethorpes signs for sausages and pork pies.

What am I bid for this cuppa and slice of cake?

John Wallis was one of the leading publishers of board games in the early 19th century. One of them, Science in Sport, or the Pleasures of Astronomy, was first issued in 1804 and revised in 1815.

Review of an event praised as being casual and inexpensive to stand at but also well organised

Updated 1960s and 70s versions of earlier Cartier classics are much in demand. The best are those made for the London boutique during the Jean-Jacques Cartier years, with the cases commissioned from the London workshop Wright & Davies and the manual wind movements supplied by Jaeger-LeCoultre.

A focus on four Clarice Cliff chargers sold in October at two different salerooms

Plenty of collectors and dealers of vintage angling kit will be on “the riverbanks” as it were as 36 of them stall out with their rods, reels, cased fish, books, art and catalogues at the National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair on Sunday, November 17.

The ritual of clock-changing is upon us again when British summer time ends on Sunday October 27 and we all get an extra hour in bed.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of auction house Fellows selling the collection from Joseph Bonnar Jewellers in Edinburgh

The inaugural sale at Rare Book Auctions (26.5% buyer’s premium) in Lichfield included this signed and inscribed first printing of Terry Pratchett’s 'The Colour of Magic'.

Later this month Antiques in Tents holds its highly rated biannual high-end two-day antiques fair in Herefordshire.

Founders Antiques is an online business which specialises in English period furniture, art and 20th century design. Proprietor Steve Foulkes was contacted by the family of the potter, Isabella Pope, who died in the 1990s.