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A clutch of high-end dealers have signed up to exhibit at The LAPADA Fair this autumn, building on momentum started last year.

South Yorkshire bottle and advertising specialist BBR Auctions set a new house record with the sale of this Prattware advertising plaque for a remarkable £45,000.

A previously unrecorded portrait of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, has set a house record for Wimbledon Auctions.

Christie’s has reported its best first-half results in five years for total global sales, while Sotheby’s posted its highest-ever figures for the same period.

A gold memorial ring will return home to Westminster School.

Bonhams offered the Contents of Monreith House: A Historical Seat of Clan Maxwell in two July sales from its Edinburgh saleroom.

Last month The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2026 came into force, updating the 2017 rules.

A rare 1804 album of 41 watercolours of British birds by William Weston Young (1776-1847) will be offered at Rogers Jones in Cardiff on July 27.

On Thursday, July 16, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold trading price of: $4028.54 / €3516.48 / £2984.11

The well-known London antiques centre celebrated its birthday in style.

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

This 1920s advertising poster for Halifax Building Society features the text 'You choose the House We find the Money'.

Made c.1880, this Wedgwood majolica model of a kingfisher is a ‘rara avis’, with only a handful known.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

Joseph Sherer entered the Royal Navy in 1811 aboard the Defiance. In 1819 he joined Hecla under Captain George Frederick Lyon taking part in Sir William Parry’s Arctic expeditions.

A fine and rare example of Cassandre’s advertising work came up at Swann Auction Galleries (32/27/17% buyer’s premium) of New York.

Our selection of lots from seven upcoming auctions

A silver Dent ‘explorers’ watch once owned by the imperialist Cecil Rhodes sold for £7200 at a recent sale at Hansons Holloways (28% buyer’s premium) in Banbury.

Gregory Ebbs has a reminder for dealers and auction houses: “always check underneath the seat – you never know what history might be waiting to be found”.

The May 20 sale at Andrew Jones Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Los Angeles included a textbook George II parcel gilt and black japanned bureau cabinet.