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While the market for post-war Whitefriars has waxed and waned in the past three decades, in 2025 several very active collectors have driven saleroom prices forward once again. It has been a strong year for the Geoffrey Baxter Textured range in particular.

Art and antiques saleroom Truro Auction Centre has been put up for sale as a going concern after 35 years in business. Martyn Rowe, the owner and auctioneer of the firm in Redruth, plans to take a step back and hopes to sell the business while continuing as an auctioneer in semi-retirement.

Pocket watches owned by Horatio Nelson, Thomas Hardy and Cuthbert Collingwood and consulted throughout the Battle of Trafalgar were sold together as a single lot in London on December 9.

Antiquities specialist Kallos Gallery is closing after 12 years as its founder switches his interest to new projects.

The Distinguished Conduct Medal awarded to Private Samuel Vickery of the Coldstream Guards who kept Florence Nightingale safe during the Crimean War is to be offered at Noonans on January 14.

With works by female artists now having a much higher profile among Old Masters than in the past it was not surprising to see a painting by the famous French portraitist Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) among the best-sellers in a September sale of works from a country house in Brittany.

Before the August 8 Historical Manuscripts sale at Heritage Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Dallas, specialist Sandra Palomino fielded many questions about one lot in particular.

Our regular listing of books and works on paper sales

Draft of a speech by the author written when he had fled US slavery appears for sale in modern-day Ohio

It is wonderful that Karen Taylor has held an exhibition about trees [covered in ATG No 2714, Karen Taylor Fine Art held an online exhibition last month, Trees, featuring 16 images with prices ranging from £375-7500].

Despite some “spirited resistance,” antiquities dealer Rupert Wace has been coaxed into releasing a selection of ancient treasures and curios this festive season.

Our selection of lots from four upcoming auctions

On Wednesday, December 11, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $4188.72 / €3601.05 / £3149.42

The Ivoire group of auction firms has salerooms across the French regions that regularly hold auctions covering a range of specialist categories as well as more general sales.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including QC Auctions opening in Blakemere Village near Northwich

To mark the completion of its newly expanded space in the West End’s Cecil Court, Darnley Fine Art is presenting an exhibition on the so-called ‘lost’ Post-Impressionists Robert Deborne (1870-1944) and Henri Ottmann (1877-1927).

Works by the multi-faceted Scottish wood-engraver, book illustrator, painter and teacher Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980) come to the market only occasionally, and when they do emerge they are almost always prints.

This horn casket was presented to King Edward VII on March 28, 1901 by the Worshipful Company of Horners.

Four complete catalogues for the ground-breaking 1913 Armory Show, bound into a single volume, hammered for $7000 (£5315) against a guide of $10,000-15,000 at Swann (27% buyer’s premium) on October 23 in New York City.

November edition of the Classic event produces encouraging results after the summer date was cancelled