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Chelsea event plans on hold for now but organiser is upbeat about Surrey fair and brocante.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the latest news about the export block of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Omai.

A selection of upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK and Ireland.

'Catspaws off the Land and Parting with the Tug' are a pair of drypoint etchings by Staithes Group artist Frank Henry Mason (1875-1965), signed in pencil with Fine Art Trade Guild blindstamps, Nos 7 and 8.

The principal portion of a two-part sale conducted by Sotheby’s New York included not one, but three lots that brought seven-figure bids.

On Friday, September 9, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1707.41 / €1714.84 / £1485.87

Coinex, the most important event on the British calender for many serious coin collectors, opens at the Biltmore Hotel in Mayfair on September 23-24.

Collection offered in London sale presented rare chance to buy fragments from Shang period

Thomas Dangerfield (c.1650-85) was a notorious thief, counterfeiter, highwayman and conspirator who is chiefly remembered for his role in falsely accusing British Roman Catholics as part of the ‘Popish Plot’ of 1678.

Sold online for a record $20,000 (£16,340) at the former Butterfields, now Bonhams Los Angeles (27.5/26/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) salerooms as part of the David Lloyd collection of modern literature was a 1909 first edition of Frank L Baum’s 'The Road to Oz'.

David Houlston specialises in period oak and vernacular furniture and works of art in Stow-onthe- Wold.

What is likely to be very good news for Edward Cruttenden of Sunbury Antiques and his antiques markets at Kempton Park Racecourse is a film studio invasion at local Shepperton Studios, owned by the Pinewood Group.

I thought this picture may interest your readers as we remember the life and work of Elizabeth II. Here she is presenting me with the Queen’s award for Enterprise for my PR Consultancy (Gong Muse) in July 2014.

Buyers, including film set producers, had plenty of choice at Kempton Park antiques fair.

I was interested to read the article about smaller auction houses having to close client accounts due to some banks tightening their rules (ATG No 2555 ‘Banks close down client accounts’) despite it being a fundamental requirement of their membership of NAVA and SOFAA designed to protect buyers and vendors at auction.

Proof that a traditional piece of furniture can still bring a traditional price, this mid-18th century oak tridarn went seven times above estimate at the Trevanion (20% buyer’s premium) auction in Shropshire.

'Laugh now but one day we’ll be in charge' is a Christie’s auction from September 7-21 celebrating editions created in the 21st century by ‘leading artists and sought after new talents’.

Newcastle auction house Anderson & Garland is holding The Comics Auction on September 28-29.

A pleasure to see the IACF Alexandra Palace Antiques & Collectors Fair back in action on September 4. A fair well above standard – not quite at the Olympia or Battersea level – and geared for people in the mid-price range.

Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Achaemenid empire delivered into his hands a vast wealth.