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This “incredibly rare elaborate, fantastical and exquisitely carved” oak draw-leaf table, dating from the Golden Age of the English Renaissance, stood out at the Paul Fitzsimmons – A Life in Oak sale.

A rare drawing by Matthias Buchinger (1674-1740), the remarkable 18th-century German artist born without hands or feet, is going under the hammer at Cheffins on March 25 estimated at £1000-1500.

A rare silver multi-functional gentleman’s tool by the celebrated firm Holtzapffel & Co proved to be the stand-out lot at Flints' latest sale.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a couple's collection of ancient Greek coins being sold through specialist firm Silbury Coins

The Oscar Wilde Collection formed over 60 years by bibliophile and former dealer in Oriental antiques Jeremy Mason prompted collectors to come out in force and was 100% sold at Bonhams (28/27% buyer’s premium) in Knightsbridge.

Ahead of a major two-day postcard collector festival, a dealer explains the draw of the most popular types

This seven-panel peepshow, an elaborate advertising campaign for Shell Oil, is offered for $2850 by Philip Salmon & Company at the Ephemera Society of America’s annual fair.

Georgian regalia from two famous Scottish regiments was sold by Railtons (20% buyer’s premium) in Wooler, Northumberland, on February 20.

Among a selection of 19th and early 20th century pictures at Anderson & Garland’s (25% buyer’s premium) latest Fine Art Auction was an attractive painting by Elizabeth Adela Forbes (1859-1912).

Second CADA Fair held in the capital also acts as a advert for the region

Our regular listing of books and works on paper sales

Medals expert familiar to millions through the Antiques Roadshow chats about his latest book telling a very personal story.

Christie’s has replaced its traditional Chippendale-style rostrums with a new version designed by Sir Jony Ive and made by furniture maker Benchmark.

The highlight lot offered in an auction of an archive related to Sir Barnes Wallis (1887-1979) is a set of marbles that he famously used during his early garden experiments while developing the conceptual principles behind the Dambusters Bouncing Bomb.

Modern and Contemporary dealer Elspeth Bray of Moncrieff-Bray took a gamble recently.

A medal with nine clasps from a soldier who was wounded in the head and twice in the thigh during the Peninsular War stood out in a recent sale held by Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s (23% buyer’s premium).

Eton pupil and Cambridge graduate Sir Gerald Festus Kelly (1879-1972) threw himself into art studies in Paris and ultimately became a successful society portraitist.

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

On Thursday, March 12, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold trading price of: $5185.34 / €4482.23 / £3869.66

Within a matter of a week, two US auction houses sold works of Russian decorative art from the era of Tsar Nicholas II for six-figure sums.