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Mouseman furniture is a highly popular if not exactly uncommon sight at auction but not so often do you see a group with a backstory as comprehensive as that coming up at a Buckinghamshire sale.

Market traders and dealers at fairs are being urged to join a Facebook group to share information to protect themselves from gangs of thieves.

A digital museum showcasing items from the celebrated clock collection of John C Taylor launches next month.

Memorabilia from the descendants of Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland – the officer Napoleon surrendered to on board HMS Bellerophon on July 15, 1815 – is coming to auction.

The owner of a visitors book from 10 Downing Street dating from the Margaret Thatcher and John Major era plans to sell it despite the government saying it is official property.

The murder of William Weare in the Hertfordshire village of Radlett in 1823 has been called the first trial by newspaper. It was also the first subject in the ‘crime and punishment’ series of earthenwares that proved curiously popular in the Victorian era.

Noonans was the dominant player in the London coins and medals auction market in 2023 with a market share of almost 32%, ATG’s exclusive annual special report reveals.

The surprise decision by Sotheby’s to cut its buyer’s premium and standardise its vendor fees sparked a wave of comments across the art and antiques trade.

A temporary export block has been placed on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Polar Medal in the hope a buyer in the UK can pay £1.7m.

A successful run at NEC Birmingham last year for Classic Antique Fairs has encouraged it to expand this year.

In a move that will be watched closely by US and European auction houses, Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, has launched a new operation in Zwingen, Switzerland.

More than 470 costumes and props from Netflix’s The Crown series were auctioned by Bonhams, taking a hammer price total of £1.3m in a white-glove sale.

The extraordinary collection of the Bath dealer-collector George Withers (1946-2023) comes for sale across three days and two salerooms this month.

Sir Winston Churchill’s false teeth have been snapped up for a hammer price of £18,000 (plus 24% buyer’s premium) after a nail-biting bidding battle attracted would-be buyers from the UK and US.