Auction Technology Group

ANTIQUES Trade Gazette has won a Green Apple media award for its promotion of the Antiques Are Green campaign.

ATG’s parent company, ATG Media, has agreed to provide the technology for the first live internet bidding site in Germany.

FOLLOWING the recent online vote by ATG readers and by readers of BBC Homes and Antiques magazine, the logo shown here has emerged as the favourite amongst trade and public and has been officially adopted by the UK Antiques are Green campaign.

The annual Auctioneers vs. Dealers charity football match sponsored by ATG will be taking place on Friday, September 4 in Roehampton.

ATG Media have launched an award to find the Best Auctioneer on the Internet.

ATG Media have launched their bid to replace eBay as the primary provider of live online auctions. There have been several companies jockeying for position since the demise of eBay Live Auctions at the end of last year, but ATG Media, who also own Antiques Trade Gazette, argue that their new partnership scheme offers the best deal.

It was all smiles as ATG Editor-in-Chief Mark Bridge presented the awards to the prizewinners at the Asian Art In London champagne gala reception at the Victoria and Albert Museum on November 4.

Antiques Trade Gazette and all its ancillary businesses have been acquired from parent company dmgworldmedia in a management buy-out.

THE British Museum were credited with uncovering the fraud that led to the jailing of serial faker Shaun Greenhalgh two weeks ago, while auction houses and the trade were criticised for selling his work.

There were winners all round as Asian Art In London celebrated its tenth anniversary with a gala party in the Hotung Gallery of the British Museum last Tuesday.

THE Good Web Guide has just published its review of the Antiques Trade Gazette websites, including the-saleroom.com, and given them a five-star rating.

Southwark Council have confirmed to ATG that the building works in Bermondsey Square are on schedule for completion by Spring 2008.

A STRING of auction houses have come forward to tell of unpaid lots by rogue bidder Mark Wilson since ATG reported the issue.

Christie’s and ATG teams follow in close second on quiz night

WHETHER you’re in Holland Park, Marylebone or Covent Garden in August, you may spot something unusual in the shop window at Cath Kidston, the popular design company specialising in fabrics, jewellery, china and accessories.

Assembled family and friends witnessed a fashionable fusion of styles at All Saints, Worlington in Suffolk on June 25 when ATG deputy editor Roland Arkell married client services manager Elizabeth Lardner.

ATG have now updated the search capability of the price guide on www.antiquestradegazette.com, and it is infinitely faster than before.

THE ATG online price guide has notched up more than 500,000 individual prices for items sold at auction.

Responding to requests from auctioneers and site users, the pop-up images on antiquestradegazette.com are now bigger.

Hosted by ATG at the City Flogger in the City of London, the event brought together 20 teams from all areas of the art and antiques world for a light-hearted charity event which nevertheless caused some serious head-scratching.