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MADAM – Regarding your recent letters about ‘green’ ways to pack art and antiques, here at Adrian Harrington Rare Books we have found a supplier of biodegradable bubble-style wrapping and foam pellets that are a ‘green’ solution for packaging books and sending them around the world.

In March UK’s art market reclaimed its second position in the global league table, while new discoveries of Constable sketches and a number of auction houses opening new businesses or locations in London were among the developments.

Although catalogued as Sèvres, a porcelain cup and saucer sold by Keys (20% buyer’s premium) of Aylsham for an unexpected £5500 (estimate £100-200) on November 27 was by the factory’s precursor at Vincennes. The saucer had the date letter A for c.1754 and the cup B for c.1755.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print.

Exhibitors were encouraged by the second Art and Antiques for Everyone (AAfE) under ambitious new owner MaD Events.

Organisers and dealers tell us their wishes for movie posters, motorbikes and much more.

Reader Ray Heath has come up with a way to recycle his copies of ATG.

A new ABA president was appointed and a BADA president resigned in April, while fresh EU cultural goods rules and a prolific pensioner art thief sentenced to jail were among the other events making the news.

Darwin and Newton impress in US auction while Adam Smith brings wealthy sums.

A selection of sales made at Art and Antiques for Everyone.

An occasional feature on mystery works the Art UK charity is seeking help to identify.

The headlines in May included a ram raid at the Petworth fair, John Sandon calling it a day after 43 years as the director of British ceramics at Bonhams and two auction house relaunches.

The sale at John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Haslemere on October 24 included a substantial collection of ancient (or ancient style) coloured glassware: more than 60 pieces sold across half a dozen group lots.

Comics and comic artwork selling at a very high level were evident in a three-day sale held recently in Dallas.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Sotheby's going into private ownership was a big bit of news in June, while book and map fairs teaming up to run across four days and the 'Toulouse Caravaggio' also caught the attention.

Hot topics in July included the 'furniture deal of the year', the Antiquities Dealers’ Association warning that dealers and auctioneers should stand up to “the politicisation of the antiquities trade” and a saleroom shutting down.

Two lots of Japanese cloisonné – both by top-drawer Meiji workshops – merited sums way over estimate at a sale conducted by Thomas R Callan (20% buyer’s premium) in Ayr on November 30.

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

Grosvenor Prints celebrated its 40th anniversary in Covent Garden this month.