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Stourbridge saleroom Fieldings Auctioneers has had a change in ownership.

This exceptional George I walnut and feather-banded architect’s desk was hammered down at seven times its low estimate.

A version of one of Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s (c.1564- 1638) best-known compositions, 'The Tax Collector’s Office', will be offered at auction after being discovered behind a partially hidden door in a home in northern France.

This mid-18th century Maltese walnut and marquetry bureau cabinet was the top lot of the du Boulay Collection at Duke’s.

Alexandra Palace Antiques & Collectors Fair (APACF) has been set up to bring back the long-running event in north London this summer.

The East of England Showground is to close and will no longer be able to host large-scale outdoor events, forcing International Antiques and Collectors Fairs (IACF) to stop running the long-standing Peterborough Festival of Antiques.

Museum buyers were out in force for the early days of TEFAF Maastricht.

Buyers of art and antiques can often be glamorous and wealthy but it is safe to say not many of the shoppers at Lincolnshire’s Hemswell Antique Centres arrive by helicopter.

The return of the LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair has generated new memberships for the association.

A former member of the vetting committee at TEFAF Maastricht criticised the fair for “vetting decisions being overruled or ignored”.

The new fair planned by two of the original founders of Masterpiece has a new name: The Treasure House Fair.

The first of the Troika ‘Love’ plaques was made by Benny Sirota as a present for his mother.

Topping Fellows’ sale of Antiques, Fine Art & Collectables, a timed online event closing on March 3, was this impressive 19th century Italian giltwood and micromosaic centre table.

The French art market is to fight “devastating” proposals to increase import tax on art and antiques planned by a new EU law.

Discoveries by dealers will be among the highlights offered at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, opening this week.