Print Edition

John Andrews is the owner of Scottow Antiques and a partner in Classic Antique Fairs. Its next event runs from September 20-22 at Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre.

A royal sporting gun from King Louis XIII’s famous Cabinet d’Armes has set a new world record for a wheellock firearm at auction.

Dealer who was invited to organise a fair at nearby estate holds the second edition this month

Since the owners of Aspal Antiques launched an antiques centre at Stonham Barns Park three years ago and added a second centre on site to include a reclamation yard, a steady stream of antiques-related businesses have opened up.

The top lot in the American Historical Ephemera and Photography Online sale at Freeman’s Hindman (27/21/15% buyer’s premium) in Chicago was an album published in 1886 to mark the death of President Ulysses S Grant.

Library items shelved away in now closed college include some of the first North American histories

First sale held at new venue achieves renowned Welsh artist’s highest price at auction for two years

Our selection of six upcoming lots at auction

A painting by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) depicting hop pickers more than doubled estimate when it appeared at Gloucestershire saleroom Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) .

The driver’s watch, with its elongated ‘stirrup’ lugs and rectangular Roman dial, is a classic of the 1930s and early 40s.

A recent sale at Key’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Aylsham included a Second World War prisoner of war Rolex 3525 Oyster chronograph offered together with the original owner’s medals, dog tags and personal wartime diaries.

I was very interested to see your story on the gold medal for the Paris Exposition Universelle 1900 (News, ATG No 2654).

Once damned with faint praise, watches from Cartier’s Bond Street boutique are now winning fans among collectors for their adventurous case designs

Did he call it? Was he gesturing to the fans? Was he just communicating to the bench? No one is completely sure what Babe Ruth’s pointing gesture meant when he stepped up to bat for the New York Yankees against the Chicago Cubs in baseball’s 1932 World Series.

Our pick of works appearing at eight upcoming auctions

'Five Run Away Together' was the third of the Famous Five titles but today the most elusive.

Oriental ceramics and bronzes specialist Ian McLean, an antiques dealer who has opened an antiques centre near Sevenoaks, says cheerily: “Otford already has two very good antique centres but you can’t have too many.”

More than a dozen letters and cards from Diana, Princess of Wales, to her family’s former housekeeper were sold at a recent auction at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium).