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Antiques and vintage street markets now proliferate in towns across the UK brightening up the high streets and offering extra selling options for dealers.

Having missed its usual August event while the venue was refurbished, The Cotswolds Decorative, Antiques & Art Fair returns for the second time this year to Westonbirt School.

London jeweller Wartski has the perfect gift for Halloween: a late 17th century pendant fashioned from a lizard’s leg.

This English mahogany hall bench dating from the first quarter of the 19th century sailed well above estimate at a sale in New Milford, Connecticut.

On Friday, October 10, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $4000.28 / €3462.80 / £3007.73

The Scottish sculptor William Brodie (1825-81) began his working life as a plumber’s apprentice in Aberdeen.

The once much-loved antiques fair at Olympia, west London, has been cancelled due to a lack of interest from dealers.

A Madonna and Child painting catalogued as by an ‘Italian Old Master’ took an astonishing £685,000 hammer price at an auction in Banbury.

Azca Auctions in Hammersmith, west London, has announced new recruits following the departure of the founding directors earlier this summer.

A portrait of King Edward VI that sold at a Roseberys auction earlier this year has gone on public display at Hampton Court Palace.

A New York City antiquarian books hub involving three well-known big names has been established, creating something of a Manhattan powerhouse of the trade.

Stand-out decorative items by named artists with interesting back-stories were in demand at the latest The Decorative Fair in Battersea.

A UK gun collector has consigned a target rife owned by legendary Victorian sharpshooter Annie Oakley to auction in East Sussex.

The botanist, artist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871) is thought to have been the first woman to have created a photograph and the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images.

Catherine Southon’s October 15 Fine Sale in Chislehurst includes this chalk caricature of the sculptor Cecil Gunthorp (1893-1983) done by one Henry Moore (1898-1986).