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News
- Aldridges of Bath traded without a client account
- Museum successful in bid to secure Russell alms dish
- Fighting Stallions set Mouseman auction record
- Single-owner William De Morgan pottery collection takes flight at Guernsey auction
- Museum purchases exceptional record of tea production from Asian art dealer
- Benchmarks set for ‘female gaze’ of Proctor and Dismorr
- Lockdown gardening hoard comes for sale
- Einstein’s ‘Lina’ sets £860,000 house record
- The ‘£50 box of costume jewellery’ sold for £600,000 at auction
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Stubbe’s punishment remembered in paint
- Hero to radicals: Dealer's exhibition marks John Wilkes tricentennial
- News in brief including Sotheby's to offer the Kathryn and Bing Crosby collection
- Bid Barometer: issue 2714
- Precious metals prices: issue 2714
Auction Reports
- Small but exceptional Doulton group emerge at Adam Partridge
- Sevres bottle coolers sell to French bidder at 20 times the top estimate
- Headless Roman emperor given nod of approval
- High for a Mouseman recliner
Special Report
- SCULPTURE: Peter Pan grows up in Newbury
- Face of Victorian Scotland captured by Brodie
- Changing sensibilities hit commerical fortunes of once-popular Nost sundial
- After the antique: Three sculptures inspired by ancient works bringing demand at auction
- Kollwitz relief evoked scenes of Allied bombing raids
- Fund raising campaign to purchase Sarazin bust
Books & Works On Paper
- Inventory recalls wonders of Thomas Windus’ Gothic Hall
- Printing plate helped to spread the slavery abolition message
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, October 15-30, 2025
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- ‘The crucial thing is for exhibitors to do well. They have to make sales’
- A full house for the return of Westonbirt fair
- Chelsea Rare Book Fair ready for autumn edition
- Photographer Tif Hunter at Robert Young Antiques
- FAB enjoys its new date in Paris
- A trio of autumnal London art and antiques exhibitions
- Quarterly event is central to the arms and militaria calendar
International
- Meat and greet lots of hotly contested kitchenalia
- Oyster tureen became a family favourite
- ‘The most dangerous toy in history’: Atomic lab kit blows up bidding at US auction
- Rare zoot suit swings into Vermont saleroom
- Armorial attractions: English mahogany hall bench in demand at Connecticut auction
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Kempton: So many dealers that ‘we even had to turn some away’
- Antiques shop owner in Portrush to retire after half century in the trade
- Antiques brightening the high street
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