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

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

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period March 2-8, 2017. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

Two silver hammer highlights which sold for well above estimate

This pair of daguerrotypes are by the influential English entrepreneur and photographer Richard Beard (1801-85).

Private buyers hold strong in Dublin despite Brexit concerns keeping northern dealers at bay

Reaction from ex-CSK specialists to the announcement that the saleroom will be closing.

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.

From small-scale miniatures to intricate, elaborate pieces, we preview silver highlights from upcoming auctions and fairs both in London and the regions

250 jobs threatened as venerable rooms fall victim to global review

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

Dealer on a mission to establish such works alongside more ‘serious’ collecting fields

As the market evolves, auction rooms will inevitably come and go. But few will leave their mark like Christie’s South Kensington.

Much will depend on what the plan is for King Street and for the firm’s online-only sales (a growing but small fragment of the Christie’s business totalling £49.8m last year).

The engraved inscription to this gold box reads: A Common Council holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London on Thursday the 7th day of April 1864 resolved that the honorary freedom of this city be presented to General Giuseppe Garibaldi on the occasion of his visit to this country as a tribute of respect to the most generous, brave and disinterested of patriots.

Estimated at £1500-2000, this rare English delft dish sold for £20,000 (plus 22.5% buyer’s premium) at Cheffins in Cambridge on March 8.

This 7 x 4in (18 x 11cm) enamel plaque in a silvered frame (right) by Francis Arthur Edwardes is the work of the Duchess of Sutherland Cripples Guild – the metalware workshop set up to aid and educate the children of the Potteries.

Attracting new and younger buyers is the thinking behind Tennants’ (18.5% buyer’s premium) modern and contemporary art sales. Held three times a year, the auctions offer art by a range of painters and sculptors at affordable levels to encourage new buyers into the market, while also appealing to established collectors.

Prints of Dublin as it would have looked in the late 18th century starred in an interiors sale held in the same modern-day city at Adam’s (20% buyer’s premium).

European CITES management authorities published a nine-page guidance report last week following a decision to protect all species of rosewood.