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Digital export licences will be introduced towards the end of next year in a boost to the UK’s art and antiques sector.

The traditional pre-Christmas Old Masters auctions in London were something of a mixed bag this year.

A sledge and flag from the first expedition to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton have been saved for the nation.

The mixed-owner element of a recent Onslows’ sale included a William Russell Flint (1890-1969) LNER poster showing Bamburgh Castle.

A 1930s kilim hand-made in the Antalya region is offered for £2500 at Phil Taylor’s Cool Stuff’s New Year exhibition of Turkish rugs and pottery.

Poster auction in New York includes fine examples of British Art Deco rail travel designs

Quaintly titled book about Great Yarmouth was one of the varied attractions in Cambridge auction.

Philip Thomas specialises in Post-war design and decoration and is one of the dealers taking part in The Decorative Antiques and Textile Fair’s Digital Decorative Gallery Windows.

A year like no other certainly produced more than a few significant challenges for the art and antiques trade but determination and flexibility – and, of course, the internet – have been key factors in businesses surviving and some even doing very well, as the ATG team reports

Swann Galleries (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) held a Travel Posters sale where one of the best-sellers was a 1939 poster for Pan Am airlines.

Four lots of French railway posters attracted a good deal of attention at Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) on December 9-10.

Bristol auction house sells mirror with an intriguing link to Marie Antoinette

A rare complete copy of a famous Arabic medical text sold for £30,000 in a sale of manuscripts and other works on paper from the Islamic and Near Eastern worlds.

The Cotswold Art Antiques Dealers Association (CADA) has dubbed its Christmas campaign ‘A Table is Not Just for Christmas’, using its website and social media platforms to promote its members’ offerings.

Whether it was holding live sales in the garden or in the front room – or with a parrot for company – auctioneers who were determined that the show must go on found a way to make it happen during the early weeks of the first lockdown (see photos).

This 1930s Soviet travel poster promotes Trans Siberian Express Shortest way between Europe and the Far East, for Intourist Moscow, Hotel Metropol represented by all main travel bureaus of the world.

Australian species pack into a Rowland Ward taxidermy tableau sold for £4000 in Guernsey auction.

Americana, travel and natural history were billed as the main attractions of a sale at Bonhams New York (27.5/25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium).

Posters promoting travel to a variety of destinations round the world were among the best sellers in a recent Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) sale in Chicago.