2021

Napoleon’s cane made for him when in exile on St Helena and a shirt he wore there are two of the lots featured in a London auction held to mark the bicentenary of his death.

Medal groups awarded to two of The Few – the heroic RAF and Fleet Air Arm pilots of the Battle of Britain – are on offer at auction this month.

New faces at Dix Noonan Webb and Heritage are among the Movers & Shakers updates this week.

With estimates from £200-6000 here are five previews of upcoming items this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a bronze sculpture from the workshop of Giambologna bringing major bidding at Cheffins.

Classic car enthusiasts talk reverentially about ‘barn finds’ laying undiscovered for many years and ready for restoration.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a wall cabinet designed by EW Godwin that made over double estimate in Edinburgh.

Sotheby’s and Phillips have announced a number of changes in personnel.

A newly refurbished antiques centre will open this weekend under new management at Hemswell in Lincolnshire.

A collection of Meissen porcelain assembled by the Oppenheimer family and recently restituted to their heirs is coming to auction this September.

New valuers at Tennants are among the latest news across the world of art and antiques.

With estimates from £150-10,000 here are six previews of upcoming items this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of Sunbury Antiques Market, the fair better known simply as Kempton, returning after the most recent lockdown.

A portrait by 17th century artist Mary Beale (1633-99) took a six-figure-sum earlier this year at a sale in Essex and now a second portrait by the artist will be offered next week.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a purpose-built bureau that tripled its estimate in Yorkshire and made the second-highest ever price for a piece of Mouseman.

A bronze sculpture of an ostrich catalogued as from the workshop of Mannerist sculptor Giambologna drew an extraordinary competition at Cheffins in Cambridge today.

A change in ownership at dealership Abbott and Holder is among the latest updates this week.

The collection of a giant of cinema is coming up at East Bristol Auctions: Dave Prowse (1935-2020), who played Darth Vader in Star Wars.

The National Gallery has taken ownership of a portrait by Isaack Luttichuys (1616-73), the first work by the artist to enter a British public collection.

Up and down the country antiques markets, shops and centres were able to reopen last week.