Make the French connections

UK books trade on alert after US library theft

Stolen books remain at large as UK dealers are unwittingly drawn into 20-year saga

Clarion call: Winter Olympia to go ahead after sufficient sign-ups

Clarion call: Winter Olympia to go ahead after sufficient

’Giotto’ export an issue for Italy says High Court

The owner of a rediscovered painting attributed to

Corbet oil head and shoulders above the rest

A small but enigmatic study attributed to Victorian

Gibson emerges from house clearance

Part of the intake for a general sale, a terracotta

Bid barometer from thesaleroom.com

Qing period gu-type crackle-glaze hu form vase, 9in

Corkscrews bring cheers to saleroom

Two French corkscrews were the top lots of Henry Aldridge

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A prolonged bidding battle emerged in Buckinghamshire

On the cutting edges

Collection of Indian dress daggers impresses at auction as edged weapons from the East post high prices for a wide range of types. Mark Bridge reports

Opulent but deadly

Among the thousands of lots in Hermann Historica’s

Persian dagger in Bucks

It was not only in London that Eastern daggers made

The game gun owned by both Louis XVI and Napoleon

On the day that the Bastille was stormed Louis XVI

Pistol and hammer highlight

This rare and early combination of a war hammer and

Cased Colt is top lot in San Francisco sale

The top lot at Bonhams (25/12.5% buyer’s premium) in

Manton duelling pistols on target

Signed in gold to the 10in (25cm) damascus barrels

Success for slim and sleek styling

The classic English sporting gun is a sidelock, but

Pistols display their finery

It took a bid of €60,000 (£53,100) to secure this pair

Armour that stands out in non-vintage season

It has not been a vintage season for armour in the

Guards at the sale forefront

A famous royal regiment was remembered at the Peter

Ivory: trade plays a waiting game

Sales show buoyant bidding in the short term but clouds are gathering as a ban approaches

Armadillo that made it alive to Britain

This 3 x 5in (7cm x 13cm) miniature watercolour on

Indo-Portuguese popularity surge

Ivory frames to this 18th century wooden box, left

Sketchbook seals bidder interest

Demand for Scottish artist with a ‘distinctive personality’ drives a good result in Somerset

Artists brush up on their military skills

A very suitable buyer emerged for an 19th century picture

Search for promised land in Wales

This small 7 x 91/2in (18 x 24cm) oil on panel Biblical

Mill in splendid isolation sails to high price

A sweeping landscape by John Arnesby Brown (1866-1955)

Saleroom selection: Three modestly valued works in regional sales

Saleroom selection: Three modestly valued works in

Summer brings auction riches

Series of sales generates hot streak of hammer highlights from a wide variety of lots

Sketches and scraps make hit albums

Two albums of 19th century watercolours and drawings

New gallery kicks off with library of computing through the ages

New gallery kicks off with library of computing through

British and Irish book auctions

Aug 7*@4 Map Section, Capes Dunn - Manchester 0161

Previews: Up to £500

A private family collection from North Yorkshire consisting

Previews: £501 - £2000

A market-fresh assemblage of ceramics by studio potter

Previews: £2001 - £5000

A group of medals awarded to the Anglo-Jewish socialite

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

This portrait of King Charles II, signed with the initials

Previews: £30,000 plus

A gun completed in 2012 by the English engraver and

Declaration of human rights

Latest London Art Week shows buyers are looking for personality in their portrait purchases

The Herold of good news

This early Meissen teapot and cover below was among

McEwan hols are put on hold

August can be a quiet time for exhibition-goers as

5 Questions

I sold my specialist product supply business in 1999

Dealers get into the swing of things

The set of flicker books shown right was once used

Slip into royal memorabilia

Items of clothing and the like once owned by Austrian imperial family lead recent highlights

Firle full of varied attractions

Firle Place near Lewes in East Sussex is the seat of

More Bangor for your buck

Every year in the seaside town of Bangor, south of

Outsize tongs, egg lifters and expert ding-dongs

MADAM – I was interested to see the picture of ‘outsize

Ivory: call for more petitioners

MADAM – My congratulations to Anthony Bernbaum and

Got an early Grayson Perry?

MADAM – Have ATG readers got a Grayson Perry pot or

Obituary

Robert was born on September 1, 1945, the third of