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London has a new boutique auction house with the launch this month of Azca Auctions in Hammersmith, west London.

Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams are all undertaking rounds of redundancies.

John Robertson, the new fairs secretary of the Ephemera Society, got into the world of collecting ephemera and antique photographs back in the 1980s “due to my interest in local Sussex postcards and topographical views showing social history subjects”.

In dealer news this week we focus on a Modern art fair, a dealer offering a wartime map, the line up at 'PAD London' and the latest initiative at 'FAB Paris'.

An 18th century folio bible in mosaic binding was among the notable sales at the recent Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair.

“Siege notes are a niche but popular subsidiary of military banknote collecting,” says Andrew Pattison, head of the Banknotes Department at Noonans (24% buyer’s premium).

Latest focus at London dealership is on the homeworkers who bought blanks to embellish with enamel

Result of select offering in London shows a healthy market which now even includes Asian bidders

Flooding in the Waveney Valley features among a group of more than 50 paintings by Edward Seago (1910-74) on show at Portland Gallery this month.

Seventeenth century guide to growing vines in England was published just before the Great Fire of London

Dreweatts and Christie’s will jointly sell the Stanley Goldfein collection of ceramics across two sales this year.

Two classic 1970s record turntables have been consigned to the 20th Century Design sale at Olympia Auctions on September 20.

From toucans to parakeets, Browse & Darby’s summer exhibition concerns the exotic birds and other animals painted by Simon Bussy (1870-1954), a French artist linked to the Bloomsbury Set.

Television host's collection yields rare studies at London auction

Among the highlight sales at the recent Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair was a George III pine chest of drawers featuring more recent overpainting in willow pattern.