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Among the hot topics of conversation between art and antiques dealers at Frieze Masters earlier this month (in between discussions on what museums were spending and which super-wealthy collectors were in town) was whether to red dot or not.

Highlights of what dealers taking part in Asian Art in London (October 29 to November 10) have to offer, from Company school sunbirds to a Sikh chakrum

Like father, like son. Antiques dealer Mark Goodger has welcomed his son Jake into the business and they exhibited at their first fair together as colleagues at Battersea’s The Decorative Fair.

The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair welcomes new and returning exhibitors this autumn.

The top of this Regency pollard oak table features 52 oyster-veneered panels of mulberry wood, purportedly from the tree in William Shakespeare’s garden in Stratford-upon-Avon.

As Gemcap Events, father and daughter Rodney and Nicola Weeks run popular two-day antiques, decorative and art fairs in Bedford.

Leeds-born, and now Cambridge-based, WeBuyVintage holds roadshow events to value vintage and collectable items for the general public and buys items to sell on.

A seminal proto-modernist metalwork design by Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) emerged for sale in Edinburgh on October 14.

Kicking off the Frieze week auctions in London, Christie’s dedicated evening sale of works from the collection of British fashion magnate Peter Simon, the founder of the Monsoon fashion chain, raised £107.5m including premium.

Once part of the contents of Skibo Castle, an exceptional Louis Napoleon gilt-bronze surtout de table suite by Ferdinand Barbedienne comes under the hammer at Tennants.

Rare specimen banknotes from around the world donated to a British Heart Foundation (BHF) shop in Edinburgh have raised £85,860 in total at auction to help fund research.

A group of 18th century English furniture bought at Christie’s in 1992 provided an interesting measure of today’s market when it returned to auction at Spicers (20% buyer’s premium).

This 17th century Irish marriage locket was probably a gift from Robert Coppinger to his new wife Margarett in 1660.

Dealer duo bring ‘interesting pieces at affordable prices’ to discover in botanic garden surroundings