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Auction house Bonhams has a new owner and sweeping changes in the firm’s management team have been announced.

Charles Hanson has made a bold move to strengthen his presence in north Norfolk by taking on the whole team previously working for Bishop & Miller in Glandford.

Chiswick Auctions set what is thought to be a record for a Dunhill lighter when a silver and enamel ‘fancy shape’ pocket lighter and watch hammered at £19,000.

An oak and polychrome carving of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s coat of arms has been rediscovered following research by St James’s art dealership Simon Dickinson. The firm believes it is the “only contemporary wooden carving of Wolsey’s coat of arms known to still exist”.

Christie’s is holding a Chinese works of art sale in London this autumn – its first for five years. The online auction titled Art of Asia, including the Palmer Family Collection closes on November 12.

The identity of a mystery Battle of Waterloo black bandsman shown in a portrait sold at auction has been announced.

The second part of the Michael Baggott collection was a white-glove affair at Woolley & Wallis on October 22. All of the 120 lots offered in Salisbury were sold, adding a further £80,000 to the £100,000 hammer total raised by 152 lots in July.

A pair of late-17th century delftware shoes that were stolen six years ago have been reunited with their owner thanks to the actions of a Wiltshire auctioneer.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including Christie's reporting a rise in its Modern British and Irish Art evening sale total with its new buyer’s premium now in force

Thomas Field Gibson (1803-89) was a man of many talents and interests.

Above the heads of The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park were 16 dealers specialising in a range of ethnographic, Oceanic, African, Asian, indigenous and folk art.

I am a Dutch historian working on a biography of the Belgian nobleman Arthur Baron de Woelmont (1826-1911).

A dealer who specialises in vintage coffee pots will be among newcomers at the upcoming biannual event at Dulwich College in south London.

Re: the letter from Anthony Lester regarding Thomas Smart (‘Mystery painter T Smart was Thomas’, Letters, ATG No 2715). I think that he died in June 1875.

A couple of intriguing pictures offered as ‘attributed to’ major artists drew interest at Wotton Auction Rooms’ (20% buyer’s premium) latest quarterly fine art sale.

How better to start a review of sales at the dog-friendly Decorative Fair than a quick canine picture selection?