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Stamp and coin dealership Stanley Gibbons Group has begun a Chapter 11 process for its US subsidiary Mallett Inc.

Every lot of a collection of Meissen porcelain, restituted earlier this year to the heirs of Dr Franz Oppenheimer, was sold in a recent US sale.

A portrait of Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift that has hung at Howth Castle since 1735 sold for €234,000 (£200,000) this month.

A renewed plea for eight Anglo-Saxon brooches still missing following a theft in 1995 has been issued after the recovery of one of the group.

As 1980s rocker Shakin’ Stevens once sang: ‘Green Door, what’s that secret you’re keeping?’

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Winter Arts & Antiques Fair at Olympia in west London is returning.

Dealer association LAPADA has announced a return of its annual conference and this time it is being held in the autumn, as opposed to its usual February date.

The government has reminded owners of certain old firearms that they will need to obtain a licence following a change in the law from September 22.

This bronze reduction of Kipkh (Circe) by Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931) set a new house record at Lots Road Auctions.

A legal dispute that explored how long it is ‘fair and reasonable’ to wait for a buyer to pay for a six-figure purchase has concluded.

The final consultation on the Ivory Act has been launched ahead of the near-total ivory ban coming into force in spring 2022.

Billed as “an audacious piece of performance art” by Sotheby’s, although viewed by others as a publicity stunt, the half-shredded Banksy painting Love is in the Bin is returning to auction with its estimate bumped up.

The sale of the collection of Robin Simpson (1940-2020) was celebration of British commemorative ceramics.

Fifty years ago this week a specialist newspaper listing auctions taking place all around the UK was published for the first time.

After 50 years of trading, Potburys Auctions in Sidmouth, Devon will close with the last sale scheduled for September 21.

A mount to an ‘Indian school’ ink wash offered by Cuttlestones in Penkridge on September 2 read simply 'G Tagore'.