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The gold fix in the UK rose above £2000 for the first time last week, continuing the strong increases recorded since the summer with prices rising by 9% over the last three months alone.

Stuart Lochhead Sculpture will open its new gallery on Old Bond Street, coinciding with London Art Week in December.

A rare colourway of the Ravilious for Wedgwood coronation mug took a bid of £13,500 at Gildings - a record price for Eric Ravilious ceramics.

A collection of watercolours amassed by Iolo Williams (1890- 1962) which had been kept under a bed for over half a century raised a total of £89,150 at Olympia Auctions on October 2.

Its survival a mystery for years, a rare 1950s Meccano store display figure has surfaced in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

A cabinet showing 17th century ‘globalisation’ in action made over 90 times its top estimate at a US sale.

Four Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) family portraits acquired under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme have gone go on public display for the first time.

Any gold ‘wandering hour’ watch made prior to the introduction of the balance spring is a rarity.

Our selection of lots from eight upcoming auctions

Among the hundreds of new products launched at the Exposition Universelle in 1900 was the so-called eggshell porcelain, produced by the Rozenburg Royal Delftware Factory in the Hague.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works of paper sales

Gordon Mitchell Forsyth (1879-1952) is best known as a ceramicist - specifically for his work as art director at the Pilkington’s Lancastrian factory from 1903-14 and his subsequent teaching career as superintendent of art instruction in Stoke-on-Trent.

Event originally put on hold will be restaged from next summer – but the one-dayer will also remain

Moorcroft pottery collection offered in Essex saleroom had a great focus on signed wares of the initial Macintyre era when the designer was at his prime

Items amassed by the late Eberhard Kornfeld feature in bumper series of five sales at the firm he ran

Andrew Mottram launched Malby Maps in 2012. In addition to dealing in antique maps, it creates ‘Geographical Memories’ by recycling and upcycling vintage maps, creating bespoke map artwork, lampshades, greetings cards, paperweights, doorstops, silk aviator cushions and other commissioned items. The firm recently exhibited at The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea Park.

There were plenty of potential takers for a Sèvres cup and saucer from the 1840s which came under the hammer at Hargesheimer (28% buyer’s premium) in Dusseldorf on September 11-14.

I was very interested (as always) to read the article by Milton Silverman in ATG No 2658 concerning the saga of the tile that had once belonged to the V&A museum.

Small-scale Mouseman carvings were typically made in Kilburn for promotional purposes – attracting custom at the Yorkshire Show or similar trade events. Rarities continue to bring muscular sums in the salerooms.

Following a contest involving hundreds of bidding increments, an early Netherlandish panel panting of The Adoration of the Magi sold for $332,000 (£256,000) at an auction in upstate New York this summer.