2023

With estimates from £120, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the cancellation of London’s two largest summer fairs leaving a crater in the capital’s most important season.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has bought a c.1920 pendant by Garrard at Sotheby’s Royal & Noble auction on January 18 for a hammer price of £130,000.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes an 18th century print by Ding Yingzong depicting magnolia that made over 300-times estimate.

More than £100,000 worth of silverware has been stolen from the Sheffield Assay Office after a group of burglars broke in using an angle grinder.

Not THAT split, but the 1936 abdication of Edward VIII which also caused recriminations, as letters at Catherine Southon's sale show - plus other auctions offer many unpublished photos of Princess Di and paintings said to be by Queen Victoria.

An Edvard Munch (1863-1944) picture last on the market 89 years ago, which had been hidden from the Nazis during the war, is to be offered at Sotheby’s with a $15m-25m estimate.

With estimates from £200, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of the organisers of Masterpiece London deciding to cancel the 2023 edition.

The summer edition of Art & Antiques Fair Olympia has been cancelled by its organiser Clarion Events.

An antiques centre in Hampstead forced to close by its landlord has been recognised by Camden Council as an 'Asset of Community Value', delaying any potential sale to give community groups a chance to raise funds to buy it.

Strawberry Hill House has recreated the look of Horace Walpole’s art collection with loans of fifty Old Masters pictures.

The latest Movers & Shakers including a new CEO at Hindman and Adam Partridge acquiring Bainbridges in Ruislip.

The parent company of Masterpiece London has decided to cancel the 2023 edition of the fair which had been due to take place this summer.

With estimates from £20, here are six previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a Dunhill ‘Aviary’ lighter sparking a bidding battle at Chiswick Auctions.

Lyon & Turnbull is hosting a charity sale of Contemporary art to raise funds for The House of St Barnabas.

For the first time in its history Bonhams has reported an annual turnover of more than $1bn (£840m). The figures released for 2022 follow a raft of acquisitions by the company.

An Italian Nativity scene has been saved for the nation after it was blocked from export by the government.

A group of traders at Hampstead Antique & Craft Emporium have organised a protest on the last day before it closes.