Fresh chapter: rare book fair takes place this summer in Dublin thanks to new organisers

A book fair being launched in Ireland replaces

Mickey and Minnie get on their bike

Mickey and Minnie motorcycle made by Tippco, c.1932,

South Africa

Collection reflects both Cape Town's position linking trade

Second watch said to have been found on body of Titanic victim John Jacob Astor emerges at auction

Two years after a Wiltshire auction house set

John Bly at 135 years old and 300 years since Benjamin Franklin first appeared in London

Antiques dealership John Bly is celebrating its 135th

Signed Martin Luther King book strides away with a healthy result for Oxfam

A 1958 first edition of Martin Luther King’s

Unseen Miró works discovered in Nice head to auction

Three previously unseen works on paper by Joan

Precious metals

On Thursday, April 9, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

Garden antiques taken from field

The owner of a group of four antique

Getty museum buys Dutch pair

The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles

Salisbury centre joined by saleroom

A new auction house has been launched in

Strawberry Hill view sought after

Strawberry Hill House, the London home created by

Alice in slumberland

Alice Liddell was just a 10-year-old living in

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The most clicked-on stories for week April 3-9

In Numbers

13 The duration in days of the 2026

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Arts & Crafts northern exposure

Woodwork made in Cumbria and Yorkshire – auctioned in Cumbria and Yorkshire

Pocket globes put the world to rights

terrestrial pocket globe by George Adams, £7000 at

Item revealed to be not a stool but a headrest puts in a spirited performance at auction

Kali shaped from local hardwoods, typically ironwood, were

Battle of the bookcase Old Master

Bidding competition breaks out in south London for Mannerist work discovered in a west London house

‘Second Lady’ in style of Lely takes first place in price terms

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The trick is to keep it original

Magic books library reflects obsession of collector who prized exceptionally clean examples

Ehret record price grows as magnolia blossoms in the US

1747 Georg Dionysius Ehret watercolour and ink on

Hemingway’s fishing flag of triumph reels in $170,000

Ernest Hemingway marlin flag that flew aboard Pilar

Previews

The auction of Titanic, White Star, Transport and

‘A great fair – where else would you rather be?’

Sales abound as annual event run by Cotswold dealers association returns to Chelsea

Bumper selection of jewellery at Birmingham event

A remarkable assortment of jewellery is on offer

LAPADA fair bookings rise

LAPADA has confirmed details and early exhibitor names

Cape Town connects the world

Single-owner collection reflects both the port’s position linking trade routes and the artisans it attracted

Market that relies on a stand-out selection of South African Modernists such as sought-after Stern

The South African auction scene is heavily dependent

Corkscrews and much more in a town surrounded by vineyards

An interview with antiques dealer Jeremy Astfalck of The Old Corkscrew, Franschhoek

Auction Calendar

The original and authoritative sales listing This is

First a mine, now the vaults

Second Llandudno business gets off the ground

Beccles billing

This vintage duck model is on advertising duties

French brocante in an Essex house

Garden statuary at the annual French Atelier Brocante

Sea Kist sails into the sunset

South Queensferry, west of Edinburgh, was named last

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Report on tobacco tamper put me in good temper

I was so glad to see the front

Triggol alert: time for retirement

Stalwart of the saleroom Stuart Triggol is retiring

Saleroom goes for an Edinburgh extension

Building work is under way to create a