Pioneer pilot Peggy gives a saleroom lift

Countdown to keep winter Olympia afloat

Venerable trade show will survive in new format if dealers sign by end of July

Mixed returns for Imp and Mods

Market rebounds with £13.5m Franz Marc record at Christie’s after guaranteed works fail at Sotheby’s

Peploe sets new Colourist record

Christie’s also staged a strong-performing sale of

Horlicks’ Mouseman comes to auction

The Horlicks collection of Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson

First Hours of Aristophil sell-off

The mammoth disposal of the Aristophil collections

Judge rules on Fatimid ewer ownership case

A long-running legal dispute over a Fatimid rock crystal

Pick of the Week The Byne Ladies will stay together

Three 18th century English carved and painted wooden

Bid barometer

From thesaleroom.com

Bid £31,000 – and let the meter run

A blue and white porcelain dish, believed to be from

News In Brief

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has acquired a

Collectors tune up and turn up

Third recent specialised musical instrument sale underlines no loss in appetite among buyers

UNDER £1000

Square pianos, the instrument of choice between the

Disc-players jockey for price position

A sophisticated disc-playing music box brought one

Auctioneer shows a golden touch

The morality laws of pre-liberal Ireland added to the

Mask netsuke prove a mixed bag but head is highlight

The 195-lot collection of mask netsuke amassed by Swiss

Works in a league of their own

Art at the upper end of an artist’s output reinforces its position as top scorer at auction

Lyons teashop lithographs serve to cheer

Like many businesses scarred with bomb damage in post-war

Take your pick: a gloomy or bright topic?

A typically moody oil by the Scottish painter James

UNDER £1000

Three modestly valued works in regional sales

Audubon flies to a top two high

One of just 13 complete sets of Birds of America remaining in private hands sells in New York

One hump lot or two at Sotheby’s?

Camels are the linking theme of the two lots illustrated

Shakespeare, fables and a fantastic codebook result

The earliest publication in any form of Shakespeare’s

Enigma codebook breaks into six figures

For many years now, German Enigma code machines have

Previews: Up to £500

This Egyptian terracotta canopic jar lid of Imsety

Previews: £501 - £2000

Onslows of Dorset’s Summer Vintage Poster Auction on

Previews: £2001 - £5000

Thought to have been lost, this ceramic sculpture of

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

The precise location of this signed Suffolk landscape

Previews: £30,000 plus

A dozen plates (two shown) from the famous ‘Marly Rouge’

Old days make exciting times

Organiser of porcelain exhibition and seminar draws inspiration from the past

Pug in paradise

Among the highlights Brian Haughton offers in A Collectors’

Mayfair art showcase blends it like Beckham

Uniting galleries, auction houses, artists and one

Brush in one hand, ice axe in the other

William Mitchell of John Mitchell Fine Paintings has

Galleries take the collaborative view

Among a selection of oils and watercolours on show

5 Questions

Madeleine Perridge is gallery director at Kallos Gallery

New clients boost Petworth

A c.1715 Queen Anne burr walnut secretaire kneehole

Hail César: sculptor in spotlight

More than 50 works by the French modern sculptor César

A moving experience

How can art and antique buyers ensure their purchases arrive in the same condition as when they were bought, at a competitive price? Gabriel Berner explores some options

Top tips: choosing a delivery supplier

ATG asked the experts for general advice and tips they would give a first-time buyer new to art shipping.

A trip to Paris with Giacometti

No two jobs are the same for the art shippers offering

Auctions that explode into life

Seventeenth century grenade gun is among the varied lots in a string of German sales

Beckmann heads to new height

It took less than five minutes for a work by Max Beckmann

British and Irish book auctions

Jun 26* 4 188-lot Antiquarian & other Books &

Artist’s Resale Right

Advertisements in Antiques Trade Gazette may mention

Guide to buying at auction

You can refer to the comprehensive Antiques Trade Gazette

Society lays its cards on the table

Price for dealers to stand at renewed scientific instrument fair is reduced to encourage footfall

Summer vintage fair supports castle stuffed with relics

Denys Eyre Bower (1905-77) bought for £6000 the 17th

The UK calls to arms

Saturday, June 30, is Armed Forces Day in the UK, an

Kempton Classic Arms Fair

After the 2016 demise of the Bisley Antique & Classic

Sovereign Militaria Fairs

On Sunday, July 1, Sovereign Militaria Fairs are holding

Wakefield Medal Fair

The monthly Wakefield Medal Fair will be held at the

Buxton postponed again

The long-awaited return in Derbyshire by Halcyon Fairs

Chatham Militaria Fairs

Chatham Militaria Fairs is perhaps the best known of

And coming up later in the year…

The next Antique Arms Fair at Olympia London takes

Trade vested interests must accept ivory ban

MADAM – Despite extensive editorial coverage as well

Use premium for protection

MADAM – I wonder if auctioneers might consider using

Obituary – Angela ‘Bunny’ Wynn (1935-2018)

“She was the only fair organiser I’ve ever met from