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Almost 120 years ago at 13 Bruton Street an estimated 10,000 visitors were drawn to an exhibition that caught the public attention and attracted record queues.

Helen Bowman and Ben Wray set up their Yorkshire Fleamarkets in 2017 at Skipton Auction Mart (Sundays 9am to 4pm) and expanded to Thirsk Auction Mart (Saturdays 11am to 6pm) the following year.

Among the highlights of The Premier Sale at St James’s Auctions on September 27 is this Battle of Culloden gold commemorative medal.

A handsome portrait with a princely provenance was among a group of intriguing Old Masters offered at a Gloucestershire saleroom

A single-owner sale from the late Norfolk glass collector and dealer Brian Watson is coming to Bishop & Miller on September 27.

A small sketch of two ships in a gale by the leading Dutch marine painter Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707) was among the lots bringing interest at Roseberys’ (25% buyer’s premium) summer sale of Old Master, British & European pictures.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

The Decorative Fair returns from October 3-8 for its third and final staging of the year.

One of the most popular fleas in the country has been very busy this year, both with the numbers of stallholders and visitors, says the organiser.

While the ‘peak season’ for Old Master sales in the UK traditionally falls twice a year in early July and December, coinciding with the flagship sales in the London rooms, notable lots nevertheless appear throughout the year at auctions around the country.

Huge collection shines light on the once common Staffs porcelain that nonetheless is often misidentified

One of the better performing ‘manner of’ pictures of late was a landscape very much in the style of the great French Baroque painter Claude Lorrain (1600-82).

A copy of Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy album signed by all four members of the band sold to a phone bidder for £15,000 .

One of two texts in a single volume revealed after eager bidding to be by Hungarian Jesuit

On October 3 Noonans will sell two single-owner collections.

Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) painted several versions of his portrait of Neil Gow, the most famous 18th century Scottish fiddler, for a number of patrons.

Among the lots on offer at Sworders’ upcoming Old Master, British and European Art sale is a small sketch of two lawyers by Honoré Daumier (1808-79).

London dealer Brendan Lynch has been named the new chairman of Asia Week New York.