Penman puts retirement on hold

Maiolica renaissance

Basin from Italian workshop makes £100,000

Bonhams returns to Oxford with furniture sale

Bonhams’ Oxford office is to reopen as a saleroom for

Martinware on offer from family patron

Maidenhead auction house Dawson’s is to sell a collection

Museum hopes to buy rare coin hoard

A Bath museum hopes to acquire a rare hoard of coins

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Frog salt cellars leap to great result Down Under

Many of the high prices achieved at last week’s ‘celebrity’

Precious metals

On Friday, August 30, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

News in Brief

A proposal to regulate the trade of woolly mammoth

Wemyss revisited

Edinburgh auction spotlights the current market for the wares of Scotland’s most famous pottery. Roland Arkellreports

The Warner collection of delftware

Market freshness and well-regarded primary and secondary

Making room for Meissen

Worcestershire couple built an extension to house their figure collection

On the trail of French treats

Visitors to Paris can take a Left Bank wander to peruse the varied ceramic delights

Lesson in provenance importance

Teacher’s single-owner collection stands out as part of Modern and Contemporary art sale

Fashionable woman is all the rage at auction

Estimated at £100-150, this mid-20th century portrait

Filipino Abstract art emerges in Sussex saleroom

An Abstract work by the 20th century Filipino artist

Good art at a great price in regional sales

Prices do not include buyer’s premium

Pushkin pushes the boundaries

Works by Russia’s most revered literary figure rack up auction records in London saleroom

Jane Austen letter heads home to museum

Jane Austen’s House Museum in Hampshire has successfully

British and Irish book auctions

Sep 4-9*

Astronauts mark fact from fiction

The highest prices recorded in a Space Exploration

Kipling pens his reading guidelines

Almost exactly contemporary, the two works featured

Previews: Up to £500

A presentation on wildlife artist Charles Tunnicliffe

Previews: £501 - £2000

The sale of Fine Modern & Antique Guns held

Previews: £2001 - £5000

Four medieval gemellions will be sold at Stroud Auctions

Previews: £5001 - £25,000

This original Walt Disney cel from the 1937 animated

The lessons I’ve learned

Woolley & Wallis chairman Paul Viney is stepping down from the role after nearly 20 years building up the firm to be a regional powerhouse in UK auctions. Here he reflects on his experiences. Interview by Noelle McElhatton

Paul Viney: from porter to master

1971 Aged 23, starts at Phillips as a porter. In those

LAPADA on a roll in Mayfair

Trade association fair marks 10 years in Berkeley Square with a craftsmanship theme

Wings and wheels speed into Suffolk

A 1935 oil on canvas of a Bugatti and Alfa Romeo speeding

5 Questions

Gavin Claxton of Academy Fine Paintings specialises

The web shop window

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers

Fair sets sights on science

Dealer Peter Delehar brings an example of a pioneering

Art week aims to promote Stow supercenter

An exhibition of 18th and 19th century Indian mica

Turquoise tempter

This 1940s Jaeger-LeCoutre Triple Calendar 273175 Mechanical

French art world back in gear

Capital comes to life after summer break with fairs, auctions and numerous gallery shows

Cinema posters in view

A sale devoted to the art of the cinema poster will

Autumn Altounian

One of the first major dispersals of the autumn season

Architect’s items draw interest

Christie’s is holding a five-day exhibition from September

Dealer exhibitions

Alongside fairs, gallery group events and the forthcoming

International relationship

Galerie Neuse, the German dealership based in Bremen

Major attractions

The Left Bank Galerie Vauclair on the rue de Beaune

Family of marine artists

The Galerie Delalande, which specialises in maritime

Galleries in the mix

The Galerie François Léage, the Right Bank dealer specialising

Buying at Auction - a general guide

Always read the auctioneer’s terms and conditions for full details.

Artist’s Resale Right

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Happy Mundays in fair harmony

Father and daughter trade duo now concentrate on events and busy online business

Upcoming fairs to visit

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Sessions on sense of style

Pictured is award-winning photographer and interiors

Fleetwood Mac photo: more details on the line-up mystery

MADAM – Regarding the photograph of Fleetwood Mac first

These are ‘bad’ not ‘good’ luck stories

MADAM – We regularly read in ATG of ‘good luck’ stories

Obituary – Sydney Bennett

Picture restorer Sydney (Syd) Bennett (b.10/9/1933)