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It's another edition of ATG's weekly quotes round up. This week, dealers, auctioneers and other members of the trade spoke on ivory, antiquities and up-to-date connoisseurship.

Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen is taking part in the ‘Asian Art in London’ event by staging a viewing of upcoming highlights at a London dealership.

A review by a High Court judge has backed the plans for the Pimlico Road galleries redevelopment.

Released today, Sotheby’s third-quarter results indicated a significant improvement thanks largely to a boost from the latest series of Asian art auctions.

The art and antiques trade, collectors, designers and art-lovers descended on the Design Centre in Chelsea Harbour on November 1 for the opening of the 'East Meets West' exhibition.

One of the largest collections of original John F. Kennedy documents remaining in private hands is being offered for sale by a London book dealer.

Paintings by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) appear fairly regularly at auction, most commonly her views of Staithes and Cornwall as well as figurative works.

A Mercedes Benz, a Cadillac, a 1971 Harley Davidson Motorcycle, $100,000 in cash and half the income of California rental homes around Beverly Hills and Palm Springs.

As noted often recently in Antiques Trade Gazette, successive waves of original American D-Day flags have stormed into salerooms despite their fragile nature, with consignors tempted by the high prices they fetch at auction.

The Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia will cease running in its present set-up following the current edition, which ends this Sunday.

Dorchester auction firm Duke’s has been ordered to pay £18,275 after advertising fake works it claimed were by Cornish artist Alfred Wallis (1855-1942).

A recently rediscovered landscape by British painter John Constable (1776-1837) will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s next month.

Have you heard of the famous actor Béla Ferenc Dezsö Blaskó? Probably not in that form, but you may know him better as Bela Lugosi. If you collect film posters, you will certainly know his most famous role.

Adrian Hailwood, former director at Fellows responsible for watches, has joined Woolley & Wallis as wristwatch specialist in the firm’s jewellery department.

The oldest surviving music hall in the world, Wilton's, has given its complete archive to the V&A, saving the history of its eclectic performing arts at the venue for posterity.

Sotheby’s are hoping that an important wartime scene by CRW Nevinson (1889-1946) will set a major auction record for the artist next month.

A review by a High Court judge into the go-ahead for the redevelopment of a Victorian timber yard in Pimlico Road will begin today in London.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has seized a Persian limestone relief fragment from the stand of a dealer at TEFAF New York amid accusations it had been stolen.

In September 1966, John Graham ‘Mitch’ Mitchell was invited to ‘come and have a play’ with a newly arrived American guitarist in London named Jimi Hendrix.