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Organiser of Devon event that has run out of room for dealers launches second fair in Tiverton

The firm established in Switzerland nearly 140 years ago achieved many ‘firsts’ in chronograph production. ATG considers the market for some of the most famous references from the Navitimer to the ‘Thunderball’ Top Time

Art dealer Ivor Braka has agreed an out of court settlement to pay Artist’s Resale Right (ARR) royalties in the UK.

A rediscovered work by ‘Uruguay’s most important painter’ Juan Manuel Blanes (1830- 1901) has sold for a record £1.15m in West Sussex.

In the first test of the post-Covid era many of the UK’s top salerooms posted strong figures for art, antiques and luxury items across the calendar year.

The Open Art Fair (TOAF) is investigating new dates and venues after it was forced to scrap its edition for this year.

A group of Lovejoy-related items came for sale at Suffolk saleroom Mander Auctioneers.

Galloway Antiques Fairs is closing because its owners Richard and Susan Galloway are retiring.

The workload of Lucy Ryder Richardson and Petra Curtis, founders of the MidCentury Modern Shows, is now so taken up with the property staging side of their business and other projects that they now focus solely on the fairs they run at Dulwich College.

A substantial Victorian monocular microscope auctioned by Flints (25% buyer’s premium) dated 1858 and 1863 on the objectives was not only a good bit of kit with lots of accessories included but came signed with the owner’s name in several places.

Two Henry Lamb (1883-1960) landscapes, unseen in public since the early 1960s, attracted a flurry of bids

The famous firm of Negretti & Zambra was formed in London in 1850 by the Italian-born Henry Negretti and Joseph Warren Zambra

London auctioneer Charles Miller holds his next Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art auction on April 25

A group of five autograph letters sent by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones to a Miss Megan Jones in the years 1965-66 brought a bid of £4500.

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

Early stereoscopic images featured in the collection of a dealer curious about how technology transformed life in Victorian times