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Chabi Nouri joins from Swiss bank taking over from Bruno Vinciguerra at the international auction house

A sketch of the Bastille executed only weeks after it fell during the French Revolution has emerged at auction in the US.

Appearing at Adam Partridge’s Devon saleroom this September is a truly exciting discovery. A finely preserved and virtually complete Ichthyosaur, dug up in Charmouth, is being offered for the first time at an estimate of £10,000-15,000.

An Interpol operation has recovered more than 6400 objects and made 85 arrests across Europe

From unpublished writings to a clothes brush from his valet, collection marks the 150th anniversary year of Sir Winston Churchill’s birth

A remarkable solid gold medallion created for the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 turned up at Jacobs & Hunt in Liss, Hampshire.

An outstanding example of British medieval pottery sold as part of the Stanley F Goldfein collection of ceramics drew fervent bidding at a recent US auction.

A Chinese monochrome brush washer in one of the most prized glazes of the Song dynasty sold for an unexpected £120,000 at auction in Norfolk.

The range of nursery rhyme and sporting figures made by Phillip Segal Toys are among the most desirable of all hollowcast lead ‘civilians’.

Rare copy of the most censored record in British history sells at Wiltshire auction

Four drawings by the future monarch found their way into an album perhaps assembled by her portrait artist's daughter-in-law