Fruitful questions on whereabouts of rare Troika

LAPADA boss exits after just three months

New chief executive already chosen and soon to be revealed

Spink specialist takes Ashcroft role

Spink medals specialist David Erskine-Hill is leaving

Growth at 12% as online market expects competitive year

Growth at 12% as online market expects competitive

Chinese jades targeted in Bath museum theft

Avon and Somerset police are appealing for information

New York trade takes state’s ivory ban to court

A New York law banning the sale of antique ivory has

North Mymms contents sale tops £1.75m

Tapestry collection returns to market after four decades to boost best-ever sale for Sworders

Restituted Cranach shines in New York

A restituted portrait of a German electoral prince

South Indian rarity spotted alongside Soloman stars

An 18in (45cm) figure of Shiva Vinadhara c.12th century

Bid barometer

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Voysey River Rug flows into auction

A hand-coloured design for Charles Voysey’s River Rug

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Asian Art in London has appointed Leila de Vos van

Man of the moon

Marvellous designs by a maverick metalworker sold at auction lead our bi-monthly jewellery special. Gabriel Berner and Roland Arkell report

Kutchinsky colour shines through

Characterised by high-quality craftsmanship, a bold

Osman’s designs on offer

Louis Osman’s design drawings for jewellery and other

Photogenic gems

Victorian locket on sale in Oxford has an intriguing link to pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, writes Roland Arkell

A taste of cool Britannia in NYC

“They were as bold, diverse, and brave as René Lalique

Naming names, Scandinavian style

SALES UNDER £700

Furniture provides comfort

Focus on two sales adding to the positive feeling as spring turns sunny

Postcards revealing all aspects of Jewish life

A remarkable collection of around 4500 postcards relating

French bird hits the right notes

On song at Stratford-upon-Avon, this late 19th century

Market with buyers happy to splash cash

If a 74% selling rate points to continued selectivity

Walnut chest wows at £5500

With replacement handles and pine drawers, the 3ft

Search is on for new Mod Brit stars

In this buoyant market auction houses are looking beyond the more mainstream

Mannequin by Youngman stands up

Titled Mannequin, this 1940s limewood carving by Harold

Carrington shows her touch of tinsel

In the early 1920s, the artist Dora Carrington (1893-1932)

Broken pram works very well for ‘Braaq’

LS Lowry’s industrial northern English city scenes

Portrait sitter at 111 years old

This portrait of an elderly gentleman tickled the taste

UNDER £500

Three more modestly valued works drawing attention

From Dickens to a dodgy bishop

London auction features a remarkable range of varied subjects across its hundreds of lots

Word on the street is of a Ravilious ‘record’

Brought into a free valuation day held at Bishop’s

British birds and natural history fly high in New York

Sold for $300,000 (£214,185) apiece in a recent New

Previews: Up to £500

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships

Previews: £501 - £2000

Made by the German maker Gunthermann, this tinplate

Previews: £2001 - £5000

Royal Worcester plaques depicting the Duke of Wellington

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

Young’s Auctions is offering a Chinese Imperial Order

Previews: £30,000 plus

A sale encompassing the past 200 years of Greek art

Musical duo are boxing clever

Dealership devoted to tuneful mechanical items that please ‘the eye, the touch and the ear’

Chippendale link

Mark Singleton (left) and Steve Greatrex (right) shown

‘Chinaman’ rarity dances into Harrogate

A possibly unique Swansea ‘Chinaman’ pattern spill

Shop talk – Antiques at Heritage 6 Market Place, Woodstock, OX20 1TA

Shop talk – Antiques at Heritage 6 Market Place, Woodstock

5 Questions

Alexia Amato specialises in antique glass and recently

Tomassos take contemporary focus

This hyper-realist oil on canvas Orlando Furioso, top

Buyer who longed for a Scottish sideboard

This 1958 mahogany and rosewood sideboard, above, was

Multiple faces of the pastel portrait

Quality, rarity and market freshness shine through in Old Master highlights from Paris

Previews: Sydney

When John Schaeffer visited the pre- Raphaelite exhibition

Previews: Chicago

A sale devoted to 700 lots of magic memorabilia is

Previews: Bordeaux

On April 28 the Bordeaux auction house Briscadieu is

Previews: Pennsylvania

Helen Larson was a keen collector of costume, especially

British and Irish book auctions

Apr 24*@95-lot Book & Ephemera Section: The History

The background to a glass act

A look at how specialist events at Knebworth and Solihull are now under the same banner

Buyers dip into the modern movement at south London lido

Buyers dip into the modern movement at south London

Reclamation for dummies and a market winning idea

Artist Mel Winning runs a reclamation business in the

Get into a great Tis in Wilts

The third Great Tisbury Brocante will run on the spring

Go with the grain (and cheese)

Eight years ago textiles dealers Liz van Hasselt and

David R Russell, the tool collector extraordinaire

David R Russell, a colossus among collectors of antique

Betty Mendes

Betty Mendes, who has died peacefully aged 90, was

Elizabeth Joan Gibbons

When, where, how – ie when was it made? Where was it

Potential consequences of the ivory ban – for museums

MADAM – Last year readers may recall a Victorian presentation

We need class action on ivory

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MADAM – The government’s ill-conceived attack on antique