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Founders Antiques is an online business which specialises in English period furniture, art and 20th century design. Proprietor Steve Foulkes was contacted by the family of the potter, Isabella Pope, who died in the 1990s.

A single-owner collection of clocks, timepieces and scientific instruments formed over 60 years went under the hammer at Fellows (25% buyer’s premium) in Birmingham on September 4.

Saved from a skip, a rich impression of Albrecht Dürer’s Knight, Death and the Devil hammered for £26,500 at the inaugural sale held by Rare Book Auctions on September 18.

A dealer and restorer since he was 16, Henry Vaughan has two of the largest shops at Hudson’s Homes & Antiques near Stratford-upon-Avon.

A mindful quote about glass from the great American writer Tennessee Williams comes in his one-act drama The Glass Menagerie which premiered on stage in Chicago in 1944: “When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

A collection of 69 lots of studio pottery accumulated over 30 years by a Staffordshire woman totalled over £10,000.

The latest Watches sale at Fellows in Birmingham included a rare Rolex Explorer II, reference 1665.

'Great Expectations' first appeared in England in 36 weekly parts in the pages of Charles Dickens’ popular magazine, All the Year Round, beginning on December 1, 1860.

Debra Scadding and her partner Sue McIntosh took over the running of B2B Events’ two very popular events at the Three Counties Showground in Malvern, Worcestershire in January, renaming the operation B2B Fairs.

Richard Winterton Auctioneers celebrated not one but two milestones, as head of accounts Sue French clocked up 50 years of service and the firm reached 160 years in the trade.

Huge Roger Hensman collection sale in Stourbridge featured up to 10,000 examples sold in 859 lots

Among the attractions of the Classic Antique Fairs in Birmingham staged from July 12-14 was the eye-catching display of dealership M&D Moir featuring a pair of powder pink vases by Franz Pallme König (c.1890).

Summer fair in Birmingham receives warm welcome after its successful winter debut

A private estate in south Herefordshire is holding its first country house charity car boot sale on Sunday, August 4.