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Dealers, collectors, and textile enthusiasts including students looking for design inspiration will be gathering at Chelsea Town Hall on Sunday October 10.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Winter Arts & Antiques Fair at Olympia in west London is returning.

Presentation copies and private press books were a key feature of a Bonhams (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) summer sale.

The London Antique Arms Fair, founded in 1967, will be running its 103rd fair at a new venue, the RAF Museum in Hendon on Sunday, October 3.

By the mid-20th century several design houses were taking a more playful approach to zoomorphic jewellery.

Prices for good-quality writing desks continue to recover – as was evident when a George II example more than tripled top hopes.

This bronze reduction of Kipkh (Circe) by Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931) set a new house record at Lots Road Auctions.

Bonhams’ (27.5/25% buyer’s premium) sale of Silver & Vertu included a number of Irish provincial pieces from the collection of Peter Ticher.

Highlights of Chiswick Auctions earlier this summer

Decorative Fair returns to Battersea after long absence as demand soars for home furnishings

Always a bonus for buyers is two fairs in the same venue on the same day.

Mortimer Menpes (1855-1938), who painted this portrait titled 'The Yellow Parasol' visited Japan in the 1880s and 1890s.

Dealers welcome the return of Pop Up Vintage Fairs at the Business Design Centre in Islington.

Works by Bloomsbury artists once again caused a stir at a recent Modern British art sale at Bonhams (27.5/25/20/14.5%) in London.

Mass-produced in America for several decades from the 1930s onwards, so-called ‘matchbooks’ were used to advertise alcohol in the post-prohibition era.

Organiser IACF has been forced to cancel its Alexandra Palace Antiques & Collectors Fair scheduled for October 24 because of a scheduling clash with another event using the halls in north London.

Although an auction house since 1918, stamps specialist Harmers is a relative newcomer to the London numismatic sales.

Demand for quality 20th century design is thriving in London with two galleries expanding their operations in the capital.

Cyrene, founded by Greeks c.631BC in the uplands near present-day Shahhat in Libya, reached the height of its prosperity in the 5th century BC.