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Dealers say the ‘beauty’ of choosing older dresses for your big day is you can ‘shop across a range of styles’

West Sussex antiques dealer Spencer Swaffer has compiled a glossary of terms with the help of some of his friends and contacts

A portrait of Hannah Rhea Caldwell (1767-1825) by artist Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) was among the standout lots in a three-day late June sale at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries (25% buyer’s premium).

The small town of Frome in Somerset features regularly in regional lists of the best places to live in the UK.

Further to your kind invitation to readers whose collecting category is missing from the fascinating – but not quite definitive – list provided, may I submit the following additions.

A specialist auction house in Dorset was able to offer an array of sought-after Art Deco French posters by the renowned designer AM Cassandre

Two 19th century harps with interesting ownership histories emerged at different salerooms in the space of two days.

Lots offer elements that once featured on much larger spectacular 19th century creations

American artist Howard Terpning (b.1927) is regarded as a master of Western art, best known for his paintings of Native Americans which can sell at auction well into six figures.

Latest bustling Treasure House Fair took place at a lively time for the art and antiques market

“During the 1890s, when bicycles were one of the most advertised products in the poster world, the fantastic concept that a bicycle was powerful enough to propel a rider into space was used surprisingly often.”

Qianlong (1735-96) period ‘Boy and chicken’ cups typically pay homage to those made in the Ming period – particularly the celebrated Chenghua (1464-87) doucai prototypes that have long been considered among the greatest Chinese porcelains.

Freedom Auction Company (25% buyer’s premium) in Sarasota, Florida, conducts regular sales of circus memorabilia.

A week after Christie’s (27/22% buyer’s premium) sold a first edition of Wuthering Heights for a record £950,000 hammer (see ATG No 2751), the King Street auction house’s sale of Valuable Books and Manuscripts including Cartography set a new record for a UK various-owner book sale at £10m hammer.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the sad death of Theo Burrell who passed away aged 39 with brain cancer

For centuries, the Imperial Glass Factory at St Petersburg catered to Russian royalty, producing top-of-the-line glass wares that were good enough to feature in their daughters’ dowries.

A reader has contacted ATG regarding a pet hate, the “scourge of the antiques fairs” – trolleys.

Royal Navy subjects prominent in a white-glove sale at London saleroom Charles Miller

A group of four original lithograph posters advertising exhibitions of the Viennese Secession was well received at Karl & Faber (27% buyer’s premium) in Munich.

Example dating to 1662 might have touted English master craftswoman’s skills