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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'.

Stamford Auction Rooms set a house record when a Chinese pottery tripod censer shot over its £500-800 estimate to bring £320,000.

Auction house Tennants has stepped in to host The Northern Antiques Fair later this month after its usual Harrogate venue was not available.

The gun Pat Garrett used to kill Billy the Kid has been sold for a world auction record for any firearm at Bonhams in Los Angeles.

Organiser IACF has been forced to cancel its Alexandra Palace Antiques & Collectors Fair scheduled for October 24 because of a scheduling clash with another event using the halls in north London.

Sotheby’s is offering a major group of Company School paintings from the collection of American collector and art dealer Carlton C Rochell Jr in London on October 27.

Former chairman of Bonhams Robert Brooks has died aged 64 after a two-year battle with cancer.

Advertising and antique bottle supremo Alan Blakeman of BBR Auctions discovered this massive 18½in (45cm) diameter pot lid back in the early 1980s.

Suffolk auction house Bishop & Miller is launching a series of designated oak furniture and works of art sales with the input of former Bonhams specialist David Houlston.

It was second time lucky for a 17th century ring made to commemorate the death of King Charles I.

The Cotswold Auction Company will offer a small lifetime portrait of the first American president as part of a pictures sale on October 19.