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Bonhams will conduct the first of a new format flagship sale next month.

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions is to hold the first sale in its new Pall Mall home in April.

London Auctions in Chiswick has hired a handful of new staff and is launching its first specialist sale this month.

A previously unknown work by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587-1625) was snapped up within minutes of the opening of TEFAF in Maastricht.

The antiques trade has expressed disappointment following the Spring Budget, after its reform of business rates fell short of the wholesale changes requested by industry bodies.

Latest TEFAF market report says uncertainty drives confidentiality

Trade bodies are lobbying the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, about a planned hike in business rates, ahead of his first Budget speech on March 8.

Estimated at £50-100, this Maori flute sold for £140,000 (plus 24% buyer’s premium) at John Nicholson’s of Haslemere on February 23.