Saleroom selection: UNDER £700

Brooks bows out as Bonhams sold to Epiris

Ex-Sotheby’s executive joins board as private equity firm takes control

Management team replaces Pratt at Bellmans

West Sussex auction house Bellmans has reshuffled its

Why Christie’s is backing the decorative arts

Christie’s executive Dirk Boll says the decorative

Ivory regulation will be balanced, says Ellis

The UK government will ensure that ivory regulations

Prepare for anti laundering law

The art and antiques trade were warned to be ready

BONHAMS: A TIMELINE

1793 Print dealer Thomas Dodd sets up as auctioneer

Pick of the Week: Poster promotes first movie show

Posters advertising the first-ever public screening

Bid Barometer – issue 2358

From thesaleroom.com

Lancers ride to £11,000 result

Considering that W Britain began making his revolutionary

Hammer time in c.1810

Back in the early 19th century a lot would have been

News In Brief

Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism is postponing

The price is right

In an increasingly complex marketplace, how should auctioneers and dealers charge for their services? Noelle McElhatton reports

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Buyers become silver surfers

The middle market provides auction highlights from southern England and Scotland

Devil’s hour

One of the more unusual clocks on offer this summer

Sumptuous quilt, sampler and silk robe add sale colour

The product of child labour – but conscious-clear purchases

Beef encounter on the rostrum

Highly traditional Victorian works test the ‘Cow’ Cooper market in modern times

‘One of the greatest’ Irish art collections makes auction debut

‘One of the greatest’ Irish art collections makes auction

Utrillo streets ahead in Maine saleroom

Plenty to interest European buyers was available at

Geologist rocks up at auction

Wide-ranging Lyell family archive brings high prices across the board in London

Celebrated diarist turns to decorations

In a worn but period calf binding, a 1697 first of

Orkney story

One of the harder titles in the New Naturalist series

From Ye Round Table to Yorckshyre

Two lots offering heraldic manuscripts – one of them

The very last ‘Fall of Princes’?

Known familiarly as the ‘Audley End Lydgate’, the mid-15th

British and Irish book auctions

Sep 11* 4 123 lots Books, Letters, MSS, Sworders -

Previews: Up to £500

Few copies of this The First Asterix Frieze by Asterix

Previews: £501 - £2000

This Irish pitch pine saddle horse is coming up for

Previews: £2001 - £5000

The studio contents of prolific Royal Doulton modeller

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

One of the many spoils of war seized by Wellington’s

Previews: £30,000 plus

An unpublished letter written by Nelson Mandela from

Artist Lauder goes up in the world

Modern British painter with a non-traditional view features in a Somerset gallery spotlight

Bentley Boys wheel into Suffolk vintage travel exhibition

Racing round the banking at Brooklands in Surrey, Sir

Gallery transforms folk scene

Romanians, Hungarians, Saxons, Roma and Russians have

Questions

Dealer Mel Caswell, based in Bristol, specialises in

It’s spell, spell, spell in Chicago

Auction held by saleroom specialising in magical lots throws up enchanting stories

No stopper but a flier at auction

A classic French René Lalique perfume bottle (right)

Good ring to it

This bronze sculpture by Louis-Albert Lefeuvre (1845-

Fair shows why it’s good to York

Racecourse venue hosts book event hailed as the largest ever PBFA event in the city

Organisers head Wembley way

Alison Davis and Alan Old, who run So Last Century

Pickering welcomes a new antiques centre

The welcome news of an antiques centre opening a few

Praise the Lord

Former child actor Bretten Lord is maybe best known

We should support ivory petition, not dismiss it

MADAM – I read the letter from Gavin Littaur (ATG No

Trade takes cricket revenge

Jamie Rountree of Rountree Tryon Galleries writes to

It’s a matter of opinion

MADAM – Those still reeling in shocked disbelief over

Obituaries

We regret to announce the passing away of dealer Edward