Grand Prix car in garden shed

Dealer-led art fair to launch at Mall Galleries

‘Affordable mid-point fair’ will open in January to encourage face-to-face trade

Medal fair free to exhibit under new owner

DNW takes control of event ‘to benefit collecting community’

Wiltshire sale will be heaven for helixophiles

A collection of more than 400 corkscrews assembled

More UK auction houses join Asian festival

Asian Art in London, the event that promotes London

Keep legislation in check, says global trade body

The global art and antiques trade body has vowed to

New culture minister urged to introduce digital export licences

New culture minister urged to introduce digital export

Export licence factfile

• Whether you need an individual licence for export

Guelph Treasure claim can go to court in US

A Washington DC appeals court has upheld a decision

Hours and centuries of famous owners

Estimated at £200,000-300,000, the Hours of Isabella

Bid barometer

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Hundred Acre Wood map leads way to book illustration auction record

Hundred Acre Wood map leads way to book illustration

Paul Whitfield tribute

The family of the late Paul Whitfield are holding an

News In Brief

The Elgar Foundation is calling for the return of a

Ancient battlegrounds

In the face of negative media coverage, London’s auctioneers choose a policy of full transparency for the July antiquities series.

Affordable luxuries

While the big-money lots often steal the headlines

Mixing old and new on the surface

The rise of modern and contemporary collectors buying

Sale brings many happy returns

Anniversary offering has a tougher day two but overall results satisfy Essex auctioneers

UNDER £1000

In terms of lot numbers, the major single contribution

With age comes wisdom

“My granny used to say, if you get stuck sell the French

Cellarettes will stay together

Entered from the same consignor, two c.1810 mahogany

Russian items bear up

Irish silver was popular at Adam’s (20% buyer’s premium)

Taking tea in Glasgow

Four days after fire gutted the Glasgow School of Art

Gestel creates Balearic bay vision

Dutch painter’s colourful Mallorca landscape is top-seller in wide-ranging London sale

Single-owner Mod Brits head into Winchester saleroom

More than £35,000 worth of Modern British art from

Colourist shows market appeal

A still-life by Scottish Colourist George Leslie Hunter

Saleroom selection:

Three modestly valued works in regional sales

Donne with George Eliot extra

1633 first edition of Poems has bonus of inscription from the author born as Mary Anne Evans

How Potter prices work

There were two 1997, first-impression copies of JK

Work that caused a big flap

One of Pauline Knip’s illustrations for Les Pigeons.

Cards dealt, but not seen

Issued by ‘Hunt & Sons, Card Makers to His Majesty’

British and Irish book auctions

Jul 17 4 A Bibliophile’s Bibliographic Library Pt I

Previews: Up to £500

This detailed scratch-built flying scale model of a

Previews: £501 - £2000

Silverwoods’ Fine Art and Antiques auction on July

Previews: £2001 - £5000

A private single-owner collection of Royal Worcester

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

This gold medal was awarded to a crew member of the

Previews: £30,000 plus

Fishing in the Gulf of Mandallo is the title of this

In the Masterpiece mix

Cross-collecting is key to a fair gaining enthusiastic new fans of winning format

Matisse prints on sale en masse

Highlights from dealer Bernard Jacobson’s huge collection

5 Questions

Jackie King is an art consultant with a background

Welsh artist emerges out of fog

Peu à Peu Sortant de la Brume, a 1969 screenprint by

Lion-hearted in Oxfordshire

Penman Antiques Fairs’ third annual event at Burford

Edinburgh in brighter days

Galloway Fairs’ last event at Arley Hall featured the

Ceramics: a cross-Channel focus

Vincennes, Sèvres and Meissen among the stars of a Paris and London auction spotlight

London’s Marly Rouge

Bonhams’ (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) main summer sale

The original and authoritative listing of UK sales

Every care is taken in compiling this calendar. Auctioneers

Smaller can indeed be beautiful

Salvage dealers increasingly bring decorative items to the Knebworth Park fair

Malvern hills are alive

After a slow start to the year, the Malvern Flea and

Oxford centre back on a high

A well-known antiques centre on the point of closure

BADA aims: a selling portal and joint legal fund

MADAM – I would like to extend my warm congratulations

The frustrations of chasing faceless identity fraudsters

Taking action against con artists is difficult but