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Just a few hours after the Treasure House Fair opened to the public, London jeweller Wartski announced the sale of a major highlight from its stand.

A remarkable bronze cast of one of the most revered ancient sculptures, Laocoön and His Sons, drew fierce bidding at Sotheby’s on July 1 and led the latest round of ‘Classic art’ sales in London.

An 1847 first edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (offered together with Agnes Grey by her sister Anne) hit a new high when it sold for £950,000 at Christie’s on June 30.

Maltese furniture was largely overlooked in the 1960s and 70s.

A collector’s cabinet sold by Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on June 30-July 1 was from a small group of furnishings fashioned from the Waterloo Elm.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a collection of eight autograph letters from the poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne selling at Sotheby’s New York

The He-Man film out now has struggled at the box office but the character in a smaller form amazed saleroom bidders.

The prime minister-in-waiting, Andy Burnham, is planning to move parts of Downing Street’s operation to Manchester in a move to devolve power out of London, and a push to the city where he was formerly mayor (of Greater Manchester). One of the UK’s most visited shopping destinations for its many vintage shops, here are a few possible temptations in and around Manchester for Downing Street’s finest.

More than 200 traders descended on the local racecourse for the Newmarket Antiques & Collectors Fair, which has been running for over 20 years.

Original copper printing plates for works by famous artists do not appear often at auction, and rarely does a private collection come for sale.

Paintings of elegantly attired female figures hold a special place in the oeuvre of the Scottish Colourist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (1883-1937).

When a Philadelphia family consigned Europa, a 1927 painting by Czech Modernist Josef Šíma (1891-1971), to Freeman’s (28/21% buyer’s premium) last year, it prompted scholars and art historians to do a double take.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

Thomas Annan’s famous book is now rated as ‘one of the finest photographic works of the 19th century’

The treasures presented on Day One of the auction of the estate of Dr Goodman Basil Espy III (1935-2024) at Ahlers & Ogletree (24% buyer’s premium) in Atlanta included a trove of 37 vintage radios.

While cats might occasionally be seen prowling round a skip, it’s much rarer to spot a painting in such a location by, yes you guessed it, the feline fan’s favourite Louis Wain (1860-1939).

Two of the most desirable of all W Britains toy soldier sets were offered in Morphy’s (23% buyer’s premium) Toys & General Collectibles auction on June 2-3.