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The only known poster from ‘The Day the Music Died’ became the most expensive concert poster when it sold for a premium inclusive $447,000 ($379,500) at Heritage Auctions of Dallas on November 11.

Is buying second-hand set for an unprecedented period of growth?

Forensic and scientific expertise recommended when it comes to condition reports and verification of attribution.

A group of dealers in north London is hoping to have more time to save their local antiques centre.

A rediscovered album of 19 cartes de visite portrait photographs documenting Charles Darwin’s changing visage over three decades sold for £126,000.

TEFAF Maastricht is returning to its spring slot next year.

Two miniatures of Derby winners belonging to John Bowes (1811-85), founder of the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, come for sale at Elstob & Elstob’s Ripon saleroom on November 30.

Setting an all-time high for a single-owner offering, the auction of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s collection at Christie’s raised an extraordinary $1.62bn (£1.42bn) in New York.

A Wedgwood Art Deco tea and coffee set and the original design drawings by Paul Follot (1877-1941) have been bought by the Victoria and Albert Museum and put on display at the World of Wedgwood museum in Stoke-on-Trent.

A new decorative and salvage fair will launch next summer in the Cotswolds.

Auction house Chorley’s has changed hands, with director Thomas Jenner-Fust buying the business with former colleague and friend Werner Freundel.

The New York dealership Hyde Park Antiques, founded in 1965, will sell nearly 500 lots at Sotheby’s next year.

Sales were hard won at times during the opening days of the Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia.

Attendance at art fairs around the world is recovering, according to the latest collector survey.

André Romain Guilmet’s industrial themed clocks, the epitome of Victorian ‘progress’, are an ever-popular series.

One of the leading buckles collections in the world, many bought at Portobello Market in London in its 1970s heyday, is coming to auction in Australia.

The team behind 2Covet has closed its events division, abandoning all plans to run fairs.