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Callum White, a young book collector from Birmingham, won last year’s ABA National Book Collecting Prize awarded in December for his collection Splitting the world: The atomic scientists and their second acts. He told ATG about his background, how he started the collection and his plans for it

A round up of new developments from around the art trade

Vases and other vessels employing the Primavera technique belong to the rarest types of glass produced in Murano.

How about this for a special deal?

Ian Fleming’s scions will be at Firsts London book fair this year, as they continue to play an important part in both promoting their relative’s books and book collecting as a whole.

Back in October 2024 Lewes saleroom Wallis & Wallis made what was thought to be a record price for Scalextric, taking £7750 for a C70 Type 59 Bugatti.

Collection of popular and well-respected Austrian figure puts in a notable performance at auction

One of the dealers stalling out at the latest two-day Ardingly International Antiques & Collectors Fair was shocked to discover a Second World War shell among his possessions.

A group of rare books and a bound collection of 37 love letters written by the Romantic poet John Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne have been recovered and returned to the family.

A fragmented Old Master portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654), with the head and shoulders of the sitter cut out, took a hammer price of €650,000 (£563,305) at Dorotheum.

A new dealership has joined the ranks of the art, antiques and interior specialists of Fulham’s Lillie Road.

The threshold of qualifying transactions for artworks under UK anti-money laundering rules will change from Euros to British pounds.

The 18th and 19th centuries were the golden age of topaz.

The watch-makers in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland were a textbook 19th century cottage industry – typically self-employed men, and some women, working either in the ateliers based in the hamlet of Crêt-Meylan or at home. Seldom did they receive credit for their great skill.

London dealer William Cook is marking the 250th anniversary of American independence by flying the flag at Petworth Park Antiques & Art Fair (running from May 8-10).

An 18th century silver tea table top linked to the Lethieullier family has been purchased by the Huguenot Museum in Rochester.

With a press release that took the German auction market completely by surprise, Munich auctioneers Neumeister announced that the June sale will be the firm’s last.