Tipu’s sword takes £12m

Trade dismay as the Ivory Act is extended

By Laura Chesters The trade in antique

Is this a First Folio that I see before me sold at £6.25m?

Peter Harrington Rare Books has sold a copy

Stoclet stele in high demand

by Roland Arkell White marble

Miniature masterpiece gold stater retakes title of the most expensive classical coin

By Roland Arkell Two views

Latest Jennifer Lee top price pushes potter close to Rie and Coper levels

Left and above:

Silver Tompion is the ‘best in private hands’

By Roland Arkell

Cheesy does it for Elizabethan manuscript

Elizabethan manuscript treatise on cheese and

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Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Precious metals

On Friday, May 26, Michael

Get a taste of silver from the Colman collection

Sworders’ next Fine Interiors sale includes a collection

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Seized artefacts return to Iraq Two artefacts

‘New language for woodworking’

Fresh-thinking range of furniture features in a four-day auction showcasing modern design styles

Silver owned by Golden Ball

Above: a pair of silver wine

Doulton packed in floor to ceiling

A remarkable Nautilus Clock sold for £7000 when

Charity shop find at £20 sells for £46,000

This near pair of Qianlong mark and period

How Omega pottery became a part of the Bloomsbury Group story

Estimated at £20-40, this large ‘continental’ turquoise-glazed bowl

Teapot with Dutch touch

Dutch East India Company teapot and

Nelson portrayed ‘warts and all’

Despite being a copy by a little-known Norfolk painter, ‘authentic’ portrait makes remarkable price

Naval artist and shipbuilder go into battle together

1. The Formidable breaking the French

Amassed by Kala Singh, aka Brian

Military historian and collector who converted to the Sikh religion was fascinated by views of India

Conan Doyle celebrated in Chicago

‘Sherlockian scholar’ is the term Potter & Potter

British and Irish book auctions

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Time for a weaving do

Exhibition highlights the intricate art form that uses Japanese bamboo

Business booms as stars align for Cooper fairs

This late 16th or early 17th

The web shop window

Thousands of items are available to buy from

Moore-Gwyn takes radical approach

1. Robert Bevan, A Wagon on

5 Questions

Mark Jameson owns Trinity Marine,

Brighton bound

Directors of Adrian Alan at TEFAF

Galizia heads a selection of ‘Old Mistresses’ on offer in Vienna

Previously undocumented painting was bought from an English dealer by a European collector in 1995

Netsuke Kappa cool as a cucumber

Wooden examples now the focus of collectors

Different class of profitable work

Two Families by Mihály Munkácsy, SFr330,000

Scholz creates a scandal

Die Schwestern (The Sisters) by Georg

Beckmann depicts friend’s family

Bildnis Rietje & Nelly Lütjens (Portrait

Hamdi Bey meets expectation

Looking in a Mirror by Osman

Member of clockmaking dynasty

The signature Fortin à Paris

Expressionists emerge together

Van Ham of Cologne is

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Sherborne full of success stories

Tribal art specialist who started his career as a schoolboy is one of 38 dealers at thriving Dorset centre

Fancy a picnic with a few others in the Cotswolds?

As well as a selection of

Some day your Prince will come – but he could also lead to a long and complicated copyright court case

A lawyer writes: Supreme Court judgment involves intriguing questions of image rights

Claims of money laundering and terrorism funding just don’t add up

The latest transnational operation to tackle cultural property

Government should reconsider ill-thought-out ivory rules

Dealer Michael Baggott set up the