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The following prizes have been awarded to students on the BA(Hons) Fine Art Valuation course at Southampton Solent University.

Staffordshire’s Richard Winterton Auction Group have opened a new saleroom in Lichfield.

Sotheby’s have extended their credit facility by $50m to $250m, bringing them greater room for manoeuvre in competing for business.

On December 1 South Downs Auctioneers opened a new office and showroom at Gosdens Heath Barn, two and a half miles east of Midhurst, towards Petworth on the A272.

But they will bring benefits for the industry, expert advises

THE price of gold reached an 18-year high last week, after speculative buying surged with the news that the Russian central bank is planning to double its gold reserves.

THE case against an auctioneer accused of trading in stolen goods as part of a £30m antiques crime ring has collapsed.

A poster for the film Metropolis, considered by many to be the holy grail of science fiction posters, has been sold by London dealers The Reel Poster Gallery to a Californian private collector for $690,000 (£390,000).

The niche market appears to be the driving force in silver sales today.

AN innovative device for securing paintings has won wide recognition at a prestigious European scientific and engineering event.

Christie’s return higher total for a single sale, but Sotheby’s secure top price of series

The second tranche of a private collection of nutmeg graters was offered at Woolley & Wallis’ October 19 sale.

The stock-in-trade and private collection of Maurice Turpin who died in March, will be sold by Christie’s in London next spring. Two sales, on March 9 and 14, will offer over 800 items and are estimated to fetch over £2m.

The final 51 lots of Woolley & Wallis’s sale on October 19 comprised the Fauconberg & Conyers Heirlooms.

ATG have received these new pictures of two men thought to be targeting antique shops and centres in the Thames Valley area.

POLICE are appealing for information following the theft of four stuffed heads of wild animals that were stolen from a Leicestershire house.

Yorkshire auctioneers and valuers DDM have joined a growing list of regional firms who have gone into receivership.

The cosy Dorset town of Sherborne is not usually associated with bloody revolution and armed struggle, but Sherborne-based Charterhouse Auctioneers have unearthed two items redolent with memories of the American Revolution.

Dreweatt Neate Fine Art have arranged a major private treaty sale to the National Library of Australia, on behalf of a prominent UK family, of a historically important folio of watercolours.

THE Swiss authorities have launched a criminal investigation into scam guide firms and their associated debt recovery agencies.