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Two dealers are celebrating the New Year by taking on the ownership of antiques centres in the Lake District and Glasgow.

A François Linke bureau plat that appeared on Netflix’s The Crown is now on offer at Knight Fine Antiques & Collectables.

The highlight of the latest Country House sale held by Duggleby Stephenson (25% buyer’s premium) of York was the part contents of the Kirkham Hall estate in North Yorkshire.

Pitched with an estimate of £2000-3000, a Matchbox bus offered by Oberon (20% buyer’s premium) clearly had something special for collectors to savour.

Pudsey Civic Hall in Leeds is the venue on Sunday, February 8, for another of the vintage home fairs run by dealer Lisa Doel of Ginger Biscuit Events,

Monthly event in Bedfordshire kicks off the year with successful staging in early January

Among the reasons for the introduction of the UK's Ivory Act was to encourage other nations to bring in their own restrictions. However, little evidence has emerged so far that it has had this effect.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

On Thursday, January 22, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $4810.88 / €4119.77 / £3590.21

A man who claimed to have found a significant Roman brooch while metal detecting in Lincolnshire has been sentenced after admitting he had actually bought the item on eBay.

Cotswolds dealer Paul Shutler has sold a pair of EW Godwin-designed andirons to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

A sketch believed to be the work of Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), which contains a distinctive second face, is to be offered at BRAFA this month.

Some of the rarest coins in world numismatics were sold at auction in New York last week. Auction sessions spanning seven consecutive days (January 12-18) were held as part of the annual New York International Numismatic Convention, the US’s largest and most prestigious numismatic event known as NYINC.

A portrait of John Roper, 1st Baron Teynham (d.1618), has been united with his descendants following our article on the rediscovered picture (ATG No 2720).

This portrait miniature of Robert Burns’ (1759-96) best friend (above) is part of a pop-up exhibition in Mayfair ahead of Burns Night.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the UK government blocking the export of a £3.1m sculpture