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A recent sale at Whittons (21% buyer’s premium) in Honiton, Devon, included this Meiji or Taisho (1912-26) vase by the Ando Company.

According to the Greeting Card Association, the UK spend on Valentine’s Day in 2024 was more than £51m with around 25 million cards sent.

A recent item on BBC Antiques Roadshow focused on a collection of stereoscopes, some dating to the 1850s.

Much-loved West Yorkshire antiques dealer Roger Smith passed away at Airedale hospital on Friday, January 16, after a short illness. He was 79.

Antiques dealers have described the Ivory Act as a “vast amount of expensive, time-consuming red tape” which has, for one, “taken away 50% of annual turnover”.

Norfolk auction house TW Gaze has secured permission to sell an Edo period ivory netsuke in the spring.

The collection of art and books amassed by one of Britain’s most influential critics of the post-war era, the late John Russell Taylor (1935-2025), has been consigned to west London saleroom Olympia Auctions.

American decorators and buyers were in abundance on the first day of the winter edition of The Decorative Fair in Battersea Park this week.

As with any market, the Matchbox collecting scene has ups and downs but recent results suggest significant market strength right now.

An autobiographical manuscript by a Georgian pharmacist in Dorset will return to the county after the local museum purchased it at auction.

A small drawing by Hans Baldung (c.1484-1545) which has been in the same family for over 500 years will be offered at a Paris auction with an estimate of €1.5m-3m.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the UK government blocking the export of a painting by Claude Lorrain (1600-82).

Simple view of a cemetery stands in contrast to larger paintings of soldiers, guns and shattered landscapes

Judy Berger founded Judy’s Vintage Fairs in Leeds in 2005, after she described a vintage event back then as “less Velvet Underground, more Vera Lynn”.