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Letter informs George Washington of his election to the presidency.

The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair (DATF) is launching digital initiatives after being forced to cancel two out of its three annual events this year.

B2B Three Counties Showground in Malvern event now confirmed to run this month.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

Small Britannia standard silver bowls are the signature pieces the Scottish silversmith Michael Lloyd (c.1950).

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

Cordelia Donohoe has run Azul Tribe, selling ethnic and tribal adornments in London since 2013. She is among the exhibitors at the latest online edition of Tribal Art London.

Alison Davis and Alan Old will be running their So Last Century Christmas vintage market as planned at Beckenham Mansion on Sunday, December 13.

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

Large slice of Big Apple auction is made up of European items from two consignments.

As hugely personal items and of relatively small melt value, spoons represent the great majority of English domestic silver items surviving from the pre-civil war period.

Bid to a double-estimate and record $24,000 (£18,460) at Freeman’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) of Philadelphia on October 14 was a complete and well-preserved example of publisher John Bell’s great Poets of Great Britain… collection.

A special focus on stand-out lots in decorative art & design auctions coming up this month.

A rare Charles II commemorative silver thimble sold for £980 at Bleasdales (20% buyer’s premium).

Bid online to a record £3200 in a Norfolk auction was one of 375 copies of a 1924 Nonesuch Press work comprising the first chapter of Genesis…, as illustrated with a dozen woodcuts by Paul Nash.

Weschlers’ Capital Collections auction takes place in Rockville, Maryland, on December 11.

Proper disclosure when contracts are drawn up will save a lot of later hassle.

English edition of the most famous scientific book of all finally ends up in German hands.

With indoor fairs still more or less on ice for now, a new project from Shapero is offering dealers the chance to unite under one roof.

As Discover Vintage, Keeley Rosendale has run her well-supported vintage fairs in the north of England since 2009.