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The Art & Design post 1880 sale at Duke’s in Dorchester on April 25 included 44 lots of William De Morgan tiles consigned by descendants of Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930), Earl of Balfour and prime minister from 1902-05. He is understood to have bought them directly from De Morgan in Fulham.

An antique arms and armour dealer is leading a campaign to stop couriers from restricting the delivery of antique examples.

A French gold and diamond royal presentation portrait snuffbox was among the lots drawing strong interest from a large single-owner auction at Gloucestershire saleroom Chorley’s.

A late portrait by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) that emerged at Vienna saleroom im Kinsky has made €30m (£25.9m), setting an auction record for any artwork sold in Austria.

Roseberys’ managing director Vicki Wonfor has left the south London auction house after 15 years at the firm.

The latest 'Miller’s Antiques Handbook & Price Guide' has been published, the last to have been written by the late Judith Miller.

A 78-page manuscript bought at a Bonhams auction could help to shed light on author Jane Austen.

Our selection of lots from 13 upcoming aauctions

An auction of traditional European decorative arts at Sotheby’s New York (20/10% buyer’s premium) on April 16 included this New Zealand Arts & Crafts presentation casket.

Last month, Dianne Brick of Amherst Antiques announced she was winding up her business specialising in Tunbridge Ware after 39 years.

Jeremy Knight, a book collector and the former curator of Horsham Museum and Art Gallery, believes he has purchased an artwork that is “the earliest-known illustration of a black person on an English sampler”.

On Friday, April 26, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2347.75 / €2189.79 / £1878.20

The first auctions of the year at Summers Place Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Billingshurst – a live event on March 26 and a sealed bids sale on March 27 – included this pair of rare Portland stone groups of a nymph and satyr by Charles Sargeant Jagger (1885-1934).

The nursery rhyme 'Rain, rain go away' could be the response after the UK experienced in the past 18 months the fourth-wettest period since records began.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

Nelson and Napoleon are just two of the historical figures to have collecting markets devoted to themselves. Another is Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965).

The March 14 sale at Willow Auction House (25% buyer’s premium) in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, included a New York private collection of leaded and stained-glass panels.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a blue plaque adorning the Shelton home of ceramicist Clarice Cliff.