2017

The Hatton Gallery at Newcastle University will re-open next month following a 20-month redevelopment.

More than 150 lots of railway interest are included in the upcoming sale of the Bothwell Collection at Bonham’s.

A flying logbook, which sold in Staffordshire, is the latest in a recent flurry of militaria lots related to the Dam Busters raid.

A collection of film posters captured the attention of US bidders at a recent sale in Cardiff.

Bonhams have appointed Charles Graham-Campbell as managing director of its operations in Scotland.

George Daniels’ (1926-2011) ‘Space Travellers’ watch topped its previous auction record when it sold at Sotheby’s this week for an astronomical £3.2m.

How the 1871 Chicago fire started remains a matter of conjecture, though a lantern knocked over by a Mrs O’Leary’s cow, or perhaps by a group of men who were gambling in a barn are among the favourite theories.

Jewellery dealer SJ Phillips is to sell a selection of its wares at a Sotheby’s auction after it downsized to new premises in Mayfair earlier this year.

A collection of Maori artefacts with an unbroken provenance dating back to their acquisition by early English missionaries to New Zealand will be offered for sale at John Nicholson’s of Fernhurst on October 5.

Wine, jewellery, watches and coins are the best performing luxury assets over the past year according to the latest update from a luxury investment index.

Omega Auctions withdrew the sale of an original score for the 1966 Beatles' classic Eleanor Rigby ahead of its auction earlier this month due to a family dispute over ownership.

Sotheby’s is offering a fine painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) at its Old Master evening sale in December. It comes to auction with an unbroken provenance going back well over a century and is estimated at £2.5m-3.5m.

Objects and artworks from the personal collection of Claude Monet (1840-1926) will be on view in London later this month ahead of an auction in Hong Kong in November.

Horologist, inventor and clockmaker Dr John C Taylor OBE will have his life celebrated with a set of postage stamps in the Isle of Man where he lives.

One of only four known copies of a ‘pre-fire’ Chicago map by cartographer J.T. Palmatary drew intense competition at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ latest sale, selling at over six-times estimate.

Model steam trains are a niche collecting area but examples which precisely match the actual engines they represent can make thousands of pounds.

In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. This week we cover a judge making a comparison to a movie character, and an auctioneer feeling the beat after selling a rare and early Rolling Stones poster.

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent had a double celebration today when it welcomed home a vase by master potter Josiah Wedgwood and launched a fundraising campaign to buy the Leekfrith Iron Age Torcs.

Are Francis Bacon pope pictures like buses? Just a week after revealing details of the auction of Bacon’s 'Head with Raised Arm' (1955), Christie’s has now unveiled Bacon’s 'Study of Red Pope 1962 2nd version 1971', which will also be offered at auction in October to coincide with Frieze week.