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Auction house Fellows has a new owner, with 100% of the business - previously owned by the Whittaker family - having been sold to a private investor.

This wood and plaster maquette of a carved ship figurehead of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson was keenly contested when it appeared at the Liverpool saleroom of Adam Partridge.

The Battle of Goose Green was relatively small in size but a fierce and important action in the Falklands War, notable for the Victoria Cross awarded posthumously to Colonel ‘H’ Jones of the Parachute Regiment.

Sarah Harris, proprieter of Breckland Antiques, is a specialist in all aspects of the British Arts & Crafts movement. She will be standing at the Northern Antiques Fair in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, held from October 9-12 (previewed last week in ATG No 2711).

A rare snuff box commemorating the escape of Charles II from Parliamentary forces after the Battle of Worcester was the highlight of Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood’s (26% buyer’s premium) silver and jewellery sale in Exeter.

Among the most eye-catching pictures that emerged at the summer auctions around the country were a couple of early 20th century portraits of young women.

Dominic Sanchez-Cabello initially followed in his father’s footsteps to become an antiques dealer in Plymouth.

This official ticket allowed admission to Westminster Abbey for the coronation of George III on September 22, 1761.

A lively antiques and collectables market has run weekly for the past 40 years in Cirencester’s 19th century Corn Hall in the centre of the town.

Established last year, a vintage and antiques fair which ran at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley is relocating to Lillibrooke Manor in Cox Green, Maidenhead, due to the museum’s permanent closure last month.

Colder weather is on the way but so too are plenty of book sales to warm you up. Here we pick out a selection of upcoming lots

West End art dealer Liss Llewellyn has teamed up with Modern British art museum Pallant House Gallery for a show of paintings of artists.

Dealers full of praise for annual York fair as international and trade buyers snap up their wares

A recent sale at The Cotswold Auction Company (24% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester included three famille rose porcelain abstinence plaques.