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Free valuation templates online ahead of second Oxford Conference

10 June 2013

The Oxford Conference for auctioneers and valuers launched last autumn by Rupert Toovey and Jeremy Lamond will be repeated this year on Friday and Saturday, September 13-14, based at the Ashmolean Museum with lectures in the Taylor Institute adjacent to the museum campus.

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A kettle to make scholars think again

10 June 2013

Is this Elkington kettle the earliest provable Christopher Dresser design for electroplated silver?

Christopher Dresser Society launches

10 June 2013

The Christopher Dresser Society will be launched at Teesside University on June 20.

The LAPADA Quiz app: it could be addictive

10 June 2013

LAPADA have launched a new app which showcases members’ stock in the form of a quiz.

Dickenson to the rescue

10 June 2013

Two items of silver stolen from a Worcestershire house have been returned to the owner after a dealer recognised one of them from an alert in ATG.

The £20m Persian carpet

10 June 2013

A sickle-leaf carpet from the William A. Clark collection has set a new auction record for a Persian carpet after selling for $30m (£20.5m) at Sotheby’s New York.

Auction credit card fraudsters jailed

10 June 2013

Three men who were responsible for a sophisticated credit card fraud which targeted auction houses across the country have now been sentenced.