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Henry Sandon, who has died aged 95, was a hugely popular television presenter and a giant in the world of antiques.

I read your article in ATG No 2623 regarding UK imports set to become easier and the topic of Temporary Admission (TA) with interest.

Georg Wissinger passed away peacefully on December 2, 2023, leaving behind one son, Karl.

These days you have to pay for the privilege of spending the night at the former House of Correction in Folkingham, Lincolnshire.

Nick Skipp launched Nick Skipp Fine Art in 2022. He specialises in Modern European and British abstract art and studio ceramics alongside selected antiquities such as sculpture and pottery. Skipp exhibits at this week’s Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair.

One of the most eyecatching collections of Impressionist and Modern art sold at a provincial auction at the end of last year comprised 17 lots from the late Ralph Bateman.

The decision by Cologne auction house Lempertz (26% buyer’s premium) to postpone the sale of Max Pechstein’s 1909 Expressionist work Selbstbildnis, liegend (Self Portrait, lying down) from June to December 1 proved to be a wise one.

‘Substantial’ was certainly the description to use when it came to an archive related to the Barrington family of Beckett Hall, Shrivenham, Oxfordshire.

While auction prices for works of art from Japan can scarcely compete with those achieved for pieces from China, the sale at Hargesheimer (28% buyer’s premium) in Düsseldorf on November 30 showed that there is still a healthy market for netsuke.

On Friday, January 5, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2045.19 / €1866.60 / £1610.39

Latest ceramics sales demonstrate how Martinware demand has moved on beyond Wally Birds

In the early years of the HN collection in the 1920s several companies commissioned Doulton figures to advertise their products.

One of the first big fairs of the year for British dealers takes place across the pond in New York at The Winter Show.

Freddie Mercury mania in 2023 was not confined to Sotheby’s in London.

Printing of abolitionist Douglass’ famous speech on a ‘rich inheritance’ not shared takes nearly $70,000

More businesses housed in historic and spacious former churches and chapels come under the spotlight

Sending the old year out with a bang, a George III brass mortar by Jan Verbruggen took £49,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Sworders.

Among the star attractions at the 60-lot evening sale of works from the collection of Hubert Guerrand-Hermès (1940-2016) at Sotheby’s Paris was a carved and regilded Louis XVI chair.

A white marble sculpture of a young man holding what appears to be a cricket ball flew away from its estimate to bring $30,000 (£23,700) at Andrew Jones (25% buyer’s premium).