2024

Film and TV stars must be a forgetful bunch, if lots sold at two recent UK auctions are anything to go by.

The inaugural Midlands Art Design Antiques Fair (MADA) at Birmingham’s NEC has been postponed again.

The British Museum is showcasing classical gems that were recovered after a long-running theft was exposed.

Mouseman furniture is a hugely popular if not exactly uncommon sight at auction but it is not so often you see a group with a backstory as comprehensive as that coming up at a Buckinghamshire saleroom.

With estimates from £400, 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 dealers and auctioneers reacting to Sotheby’s changes to its buyer’s and seller’s premium.

Two dealers have declared a victory in their quest to save historic gas lamps in Westminster.

A remarkable collection of prints amassed by Winfield Robbins (1841-1910) of Arlington, Massachusetts have been deaccessioned and will be auctioned.

An impressive group of Anglo-Saxon pennies, found by metal detectorists near Braintree in Essex, will be offered in separate lots at Noonans.

Art historian and author John Branfield and his late wife Kathleen spent 50 years building their collection of Cornish art and ceramics. It will now be dispersed at Lay’s in Penzance on February 29.

The owner of a visitor book from 10 Downing Street, during the Margaret Thatcher and John Major era, plans to sell it despite the government saying it is official property.

Some of the strongest demand at the latest Old Master auctions in New York came among the works on paper sales.

Around 50 works of tribal art have been stolen in Belgium.

Renowned SAS commander 'Paddy' Mayne was so courageous (and hard as nails) he won not one but four Distinguished Service Order awards during the Second World War.

David Aaron, the Mayfair antiquities specialist, is offering a major natural history specimen at Harrods.

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

With catalogues titled Love Lust & Lechery and a tour called Love Motifs & Symbols, there is something for everyone among this selection of items for sale ahead of St Valentine’s Day this week.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of Sotheby’s announcing a major shake-up of its customers’ fees including a reduction of its buyer’s premium.

A cache of memorabilia from the descendants of Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland – the officer Napoleon surrendered to aboard HMS Bellerophon on July 15, 1815 – is coming to auction.

The London Scottish Regimental Trust is putting up for auction one of the three Victoria Crosses that it holds.