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A pair of characterful bird studies set a high price for Henry Stacy Marks (1829-98) at Lyon & Turnbull (26% buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh.

Sustained scrap silver prices of more than £30 an ounce have sent large quantities of middle-of-the-road Georgian and Victorian domestic silver to the melting pot. Today, to sell well above the bullion price, it helps if silver comes with a strong narrative. ATG reports on a few great storytellers.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the highest-ever-graded copy of Superman No 1 from 1939 setting a new record.

Scottish contemporary silver by Graham Leishman Stewart (1955-2020), squirreled away for decades in private collections, is now slowly beginning to reach the secondary market.

Irish silver pocket corkscrews from the Georgian period are not common.

First up is the AS Fairs one-day event at Lincolnshire Showground – then the nearby IACF two-dayer kicks in

The Philadelphia Show will not take place next year.

Our selection of stand-out lots at 21 upcoming auctions

Shakespearean themed watercolour takes hammer price of £75,000 as confirmation of the artist’s status

New York dealer Howard L Rehs, president of Rehs Galleries Inc and a respected authority on 19th and early 20th century French academic art, died on November 19 at the age of 66 following a year-long battle with ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease.

Our regular listing of books and works on paper sales

The inaugural auction at Sotheby’s new headquarters at the Breuer Building in New York produced a series of fireworks, not least a record for any lot ever sold by the 281-year-old firm.

A rare visual record of a ‘legendary’ boxing match that took place in Gretna Green in 1816 drew a strong contest itself at an auction in North Yorkshire

This rare George III parquetry box containing approximately 72 wood specimens to all sides and the interior was almost certainly made by Gillows c.1810.

A UK gallery or institution will need to raise £280,000 plus VAT to acquire a work by Henri-Joseph François, Baron De Triqueti, before it leaves the country.