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Sotheby’s revealed its full-year results for 2023, revealing consolidated sales of $7.9bn (£6.2bn), just a touch down on the $8bn of 2022.

Flea circuses are well known but Mexican dressed fleas will probably come as more of a surprise.

A 3000-year-old gold ‘dress fastener’ dug up by a metal detectorist in Staffordshire could be bought by a museum.

Steven Beale, former director of the failed Cotswold art dealership Trinity House Paintings, has not cooperated with the administrators causing “significant time costs” and delays, according to their latest report.

A trade card sold for a remarkable £26,800 hammer price was not only one of the earliest-known examples but also had the considerable appeal of featuring the first black professional football player.

A rare archive related to the Wedgwood Liberty Ware project designed to raise money for victims of the First World War comes for sale at Freeman’s Hindman in Philadelphia.

TV presenter and antiques dealer Drew Pritchard is to sell items from his personal collection at Dreweatts in March.

A Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) royal portrait due to be offered at Sotheby’s New York has been withdrawn ahead of the auction.

Strand Collectibles Group, the parent company for stamp specialist Stanley Gibbons and coin specialist Baldwin’s, has announced a new structure.

The Charles Dickens Museum in London and the Wilkie Collins Society are hoping to track down a missing book last recorded as sold at auction to book dealer Bernard Quaritch more than 130 years ago.

Chicago auction house Hindman has announced a merger with Philadelphia-based Freeman’s and the opening of a saleroom in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

A major collection of books on furniture from the late dealer John Bedford is on display as part of a new exhibition at the University of Leeds.

The inaugural Midlands Art Design Antiques Fair (MADA) at Birmingham’s NEC has been postponed.