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Stroud Auction Rooms is to rebrand and move to a new purpose-built saleroom.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) has appointed Lord Carrington of Fulham as honorary president.

Chelsea Antiques Fair exhibitors hailed renewed business with overseas visitors to London – green shoots from the much hoped-for improvement in tourism.

Topping this season’s Asian art series in New York was a piece of Qing imperial porcelain sold not at Sotheby’s, Christie’s or Bonhams but at Doyle.

A drawing from Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s (1696-1770) Punchinello series is among the highlights of the contents of Weston Hall in Northamptonshire.

Fascinated both by their elegance of design and sophisticated cartography, Stephen Edell began collecting globes 50 years ago.

Auction house Bonhams has opened its first dedicated saleroom in mainland Europe.

Stamp and coin dealership Stanley Gibbons Group has begun a Chapter 11 process for its US subsidiary Mallett Inc.

Every lot of a collection of Meissen porcelain, restituted earlier this year to the heirs of Dr Franz Oppenheimer, was sold in a recent US sale.

A portrait of Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift that has hung at Howth Castle since 1735 sold for €234,000 (£200,000) this month.

A renewed plea for eight Anglo-Saxon brooches still missing following a theft in 1995 has been issued after the recovery of one of the group.

As 1980s rocker Shakin’ Stevens once sang: ‘Green Door, what’s that secret you’re keeping?’

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Winter Arts & Antiques Fair at Olympia in west London is returning.

Dealer association LAPADA has announced a return of its annual conference and this time it is being held in the autumn, as opposed to its usual February date.

The government has reminded owners of certain old firearms that they will need to obtain a licence following a change in the law from September 22.

This bronze reduction of Kipkh (Circe) by Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931) set a new house record at Lots Road Auctions.