The Gothic revival

Stakeholders consider legal action on ivory

Trade bodies and sculpture association seek counsel and appeal for financial help

Offshore hallmarks to be different to those used in UK, says council

Offshore hallmarks to be different to those used in

Colt Clavier to be dispersed in Canterbury

The Colt Clavier collection of historical keyboard

Budgen to head medals department at Spink

Marcus Budgen is to head the Spink medals department

Church Street raises market profile as Alfies turns east

Church Street raises market profile as Alfies turns

Ottawa museum buys Canadian VC group

One of the finest Victoria Cross medals awarded to

Art Loss Register launches catalogue database

The Art Loss Register (ALR) has launched a catalogue

Pick of the Week: Microscope looks good at £88,000

A rare 18th century variable microscope by eminent

Bid Barometer – issue 2341

From thesaleroom.com

Exceptional ways to travel in style

The travelling compendium reached its apogee in the

News In Brief

A painting thought to be a copy of a Peter Paul Rubens

A country house career highlight

Sworders chairman hails North Mymms Park auction as the best in 40 years at the rostrum

Select modern silver

The increasing market interest in modern designer silver

Cabinets make healthy sums

Given the GlaxoSmithKline link, it was not a surprise

High Thai interest served up

Among the silver from North Mymms, a couple of 18th

Charisma leads canine market

Pictures of dogs showing personality and painted from life are the ones that excite bidders

A good bit of sport in the country

A good dose of sporting art is practically a prerequisite

Artist’s box takes £3000 in Cumbria

Topping Mitchells’ (20% buyer’s premium) £53,000 Country

Topping sale for equine painter

The stellar sporting entry to John Nicholson’s (24%

Saleroom selection:

Three modestly valued works at regional sales

Previews: Up to £500

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships

Previews: £501 - £2000

A sale of toys and models on May 19 at Lacy Scott &

Previews: £2001 - £5000

In the booming market of British studio pottery, potter

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

A private collection of historic coins, valued around

Previews: £30,000 plus

A collection of Chinese art, unseen on the market for

Text book evolution

Those who worry about the art and antiques market’s

Also in Battersea

As we approach the second anniversary of our inaugural

Mapping the city limits

In a journey starting with the Great Fire and taking in the 1980s, dealer Tim Bryars explores the collecting market for London maps

Book fairs an evolution

A look at some of the changes and challenges facing the organisers of rare books and works on paper fairs

Skilling up the book trade

How do aspiring dealers acquire the skills and expertise

US book fairs

The California International Antiquarian Book Fair

The book beautiful

How the private press movement – and a focus on the craft of book making – created a collecting niche

Kelmscott Press

Kelmscott’s finest achievement is probably its edition

John Keats’ Endymion

The standard copy of this work, made in an edition

Ashendene Press

This copy on vellum was bound in full brickred morocco

Hammer prices and the silver screen

Gothic literature is perhaps most alive in the public

Camera ready artwork

The photobook genre is almost as old as photography itself and can be collected at all price points, as Bonhams’ Matthew Haley reports

Hammer highlights

Our pick of books and works on paper recently sold at auction

Rare Books London

The festival of events grows in popularity each year. Talks, tours, walks – plus flagship fairs and auctions – are all part of the 2018 schedule

Photography through the ages

London event involves 108 exhibitors offering images from very early days to contemporary

Railroad views steaming in

An unusual collection of more than 300 blue-toned cyanotypes

Shop Talk – Petworth Antiques Market Haven Cottage, 3 East Street, GU28 0AB

Shop Talk – Petworth Antiques Market Haven Cottage

5 Questions

Marc Murray of Sylvia Powell is standing at The Petworth

Green double for Seago and west Cornwall

Richard Green takes full advantage of its two New Bond

Art world’s female movers and shakers in the picture

Fashion, photography and the art world’s most powerful

Cheshire clock tick

An eight-day longcase clock (above) is a stand-out

German and Swiss sales on a roll

Latest round of auctions produces impressive highlights from Asian art to vintage luggage

Life’s a picnic in Zurich

Axel Plambeck (b.1936) was CEO of a re-insurance company

Previews: Munich – Quittenbaum

A late 19th century Art Nouveau centrepiece is one

Previews: Vienna

Main stage at the design auction at Dorotheum in Vienna

Previews: Munich – Ketterer Kunst

Pride comes before a fall and in the case of Napoleon

Previews: Cologn

Numerous works of art in the spring sales at Van Ham

British and Irish book auctions

May 9 Antiquarian & General Books, Maps & Ephemera

Venue with a vice den past

Latest vintage and retro fair in south London runs in building formerly linked to Krays

Size fits snugly in Eridge Park

Hetty Purbrick and Caroline Zoob believe that small

Fishing at a perilous angle

Taken in June 1905 on the River Helmsdale in Sutherland

Join us in ivory trade ban legal challenge

MADAM – The Public Monuments & Sculpture Association

Why museum ivory fears are misguided

MADAM – Michael Baggott’s recent letter about the potential

Target the poachers instead

MADAM – I have been dealing in Oriental antiques for

When can an auctioneer be held liable legally?

A lawyer writes: The duties and responsibilities of the auction house can lead to confusion