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The collection of London dealers Alan and Mary Hobart, who founded the Pyms Gallery in the 1970s, has been consigned to Christie’s.

Gurr Johns, the art advisor that owns UK auction house Dreweatts, has opened an office in Paris.

A rare English silkwork portrait miniature of Charles I sold for a multi-estimate £8000 at Bellmans’ in Billingshurst on October 15.

The glut of auctions held during the week-long period of the ‘Frieze London’ and ‘Frieze Masters’ fairs generated an overall £184m including premium, roughly in line with the total from the equivalent sales last year.

Next year marks the 220th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, the most famous naval battle in British history.

The niche collectors’ market of mechanical music sings the right notes with another outing for Laurence Fisher Consultancy’s Mechanical Music Auction and Social-Meet Event.

Works by David Bomberg (1890-1957) are a valuable proposition at auction, especially those with an attractive Spanish subject.