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An album of 19 carte de visite portrait photographs of Charles Darwin is offered in Reeman Dansie’s Fine Art auction on November 8-9.

A ‘Victoria Cross’ for animals awarded to Rob, a parachuting dog who served with the SAS, has sold for a world record £140,000 at auction.

A campaign to save the Victorian gas lamps in Westminster started by two antiques dealers has gained backing from The Victorian Society, its president actor Griff Rhys Jones and the GMB Union.

Two leading book dealers have come together to jointly buy the eponymous William Reese Company and its 40,000 stock of books.

A little-known theatrical portrait painted by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) towards the end of his career sold for £330,000 at auction in Dorset.

David Thatcher’s display of Japanese armour at Asian Art in London will be much depleted – but for positive reasons.

Premium-inclusive price in London just pips previous high for ceramicist Hans Coper.

A Chinese blue and white vase with a Qianlong mark shot past its four-figure estimate to sell for €7.7m (£6.2m) in France on October 1.

This bronze sculpture depicting a woman painting with a palette and brush was among the many sales at The Northern Antiques Fair.

Enthusiasts who feel British enamel advertising signs are becoming overpriced may spare a thought for collectors in the US.

The Open Art Fair is set to return next spring. Part owned by BADA (British Antique Dealers’ Association), it is scheduled to run in a purpose-built marquee in Duke of York Square, Chelsea, from April 19-23.

Among the highlights of the latest Important Chinese Art sale at Sotheby’s New York was this rare porcelain meiping from the Yongzheng or early Qianlong period.

A cast of Hamo Thornycroft’s Teucer, classic of the New Sculpture movement, sold for £20,000 (plus 21% buyer’s premium) at JS Auctions in Banbury on September 23.

An exceptionally early album of calotype photographs sold for £68,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Lyon & Turnbull on September 28.

Lay’s Auctioneers (previously known as David Lay) has expanded with a second saleroom in its home county of Cornwall.

Generating a hammer price of £165,000, the star attraction in Omega’s auction on September 27 was pretty obvious.

Controversial law update will make it easier for museums to repatriate items