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RUPERT Toovey is standing down as chairman of the RICS Art and Antiques faculty in order to train as a worker priest in the Church of England.

The Art Fund has announced a new funding initiative in partnership with the Crafts Council, dubbed Art Fund Collect, aimed at challenging curators to be more ambitious in extending their collections at a quality craft fair.

EXHIBITORS booked for the forthcoming NEC Birmingham and LAPADA Cheltenham fairs are being targeted by Austrian-based scam guide FAIR Guide.

Readers are advised to be wary of cut-price Whitefriars Drunken Bricklayer vases – they may be fakes.

LAPADA are to contribute to the costs of installing the approved antiques road sign to encourage association members to get them in place quickly.

IT has already become part of eBay folklore – the $503,300 beer bottle.

THE Sussex Downs will provide the backdrop to this year’s RICS Conference from October 12-14.

THE Department of Transport have approved a design for a symbol to promote antiques on road signs.

Does Rowling have them rattled?

ONLINE auction giant eBay is banning cross-border sales of ivory on all their websites. The company announced that from the end of this month sellers will only be allowed to list ivory items for sale in their own country.

THE National Association of Valuers and Auctioneers (NAVA) has voted to merge with the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA).

The Art Fund have thrown their weight behind the campaign to save Dumfries House for the nation with a £2m pledge towards acquiring the house and its contents. Christie’s, who are due to sell the contents at a showpiece sale next month, say such good intentions have arrived too late.

EBay’s global network is encouraging the illegal trade in elephant ivory says an investigative report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

The increasingly prosperous North East of England will receive its first high-end antiques fair next February when 27 LAPADA or BADA dealers descend upon Linden Hall, near Morpeth in Northumberland.

An improvement in the trading climate but a negative response to the artists’ resale right were among the findings of the latest British Antique Dealers’ Association members poll.

antiques shippers Cadogan Tate Fine Art are launching a Save Our Small Antique Shops campaign with the support of LAPADA, the UK’s largest trade association for professional dealers.

A surprisingly saucy book commissioned by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association (ABA) to celebrate their centenary has become an unlikely hit, and is having to be reprinted to meet demand.

Museums should learn lessons of the 20th century

KENT dealer and BADA member Lennox Cato has bought the premises next to his Edenbridge shop and this week reopens them as The Edenbridge Galleries, a centre exclusively for BADA members.

NEXT year the British Antique Dealers Association celebrate the 90th anniversary of their foundation with a series of countrywide exhibitions in members’ shops and galleries.