1) County Durham dealer and North Yorkshire auction house team up for online quiz show
David Harper (left) and David Elstob inside Elstob & Elstob's saleroom.
Barnard Castle antiques dealer David Harper and Ripon auction house Elstob & Elstob are calling on dealers, collectors and antique enthusiasts to join them as contestants for a new quiz.
2) Jade thieves ordered to pay back proceeds of auction sales
Among the items still missing from the collection of the late Fay Marx is this 10½in (27cm) important Ming grey jade group of two recumbent Mongolian ponies. Please note the available image does not accurately portray the colour of this jade.
A man, who along with his father, stole valuable Chinese works of art from the home of an elderly Bedfordshire widow has been asked to pay back more than £200,000.
3) Russian incense burner stars in our latest pick of five auction highlights
Russian incense burner – £7000 at WH Peacock.
ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes included a 19th century Russian silver, gilt and enamel incense burner that made over 30-times estimate in Bedford.
4) A Georgian brooch to commemorate Halley’s Comet is among five lots to watch
Rose-cut diamond comet brooch c.1830 produced to commemorate Halley’s comet – estimate £200-300 at Roseberys.
Among the upcoming lots to watch was this c.1830 brooch commemorating Halley’s Comet.
5) Met museum hands back looted artefacts
Among the antiquities returned was a 200BC marble head of Athena from a temple in central Italy (aquired by the Met in 1996)
Twenty-seven looted artefacts seized from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art have been returned.
