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A privately produced Victorian silver bravery medal proved hugely popular when offered at Noonans (24% buyer’s premium) on June 21.

Christie’s Books and Manuscripts sale on July 12 included a remarkable copy of 'Insectivorous Plants' by Charles Darwin (1809-82).

An early version of virtual reality, the Victorian craze of stereoscopes is firmly in focus this summer

US museums have been particularly active as underlined by London gallery showcase event highlights

Among the sales at 'An Eye into the Ancient Past', the collaborative exhibition from Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch and Claire Brown Art, was this attic black-figure amphora, dated to 500BC.

Collecting genre is being boosted by fresh bidders with deep pockets who work in the technology sector

Leica cameras of rather different dimensions to normal clicked into action at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

A group of drawings which helped develop the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a UK buyer can step in.

African-American artists and makers from the Deep South of the US are the focus for The Gallery of Everything’s summer show.

A fragmentary shabti with a cartouche for the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten proved a highlight of Bonhams’ latest Antiquities sale.

London-based French antiques dealer Dorian Caffot de Fawes offers furniture, pictures and other objects from 1920-70.

'Antipodum, nobis, incognita': how a great southern land is labelled (“the Antipodes unknown to us”) in one of the first mentions in print.

The organiser of the revived north London fair now hopes to expand the event with more dealers and a greater range.

The SS Normandie was both the apogee and the nadir of the Art Deco movement.

The practice of presenting gold and enamel swords and freedom boxes, already popular in England in the 18th century, became more widespread during the Napoleonic Wars.

Olympia Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) reported some significant overseas interest at its latest Fine Paintings, Works on Paper & Sculpture auction with almost a third of buyers from outside the UK.