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On Thursday, July 2, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold trading price of: $4052.41 / €3550.28 / £3046.93

The 18th annual sale presented by Perfume Bottles Auction (20/25% buyer’s premium) took place on May 2. The online auction, conducted in New York by Ken Leach, served as the finale of the 2026 convention of the International Perfume Bottle Association (IFBA).

Our selection of lots from 11 upcoming auctions

In 1862, just a year after the founding of the Morris, Marshall & Faulkner Company at Red Lion Square, a circular was sent to prospective clients to announce the ‘revival of the art of painting on china tiles’.

Hill House Antiques & Decorative Arts is returning to Kensington after two years away.

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

New England Auctions – Fred Giampietro (26% buyer’s premium) of Branford, Connecticut, continues to win big with leech jars from the collection of the late Dr Jerry Phelps (1935-2025), an anesthesiologist from Kentucky.

A pair of William De Morgan ruby lustre four tile panels depicting galleons in full sail with fish swimming in sea sold for a top estimate £6000 at Martel Maides (20% buyer’s premium) in St Peter Port, Guernsey.

Two small single-owner collections of Martin Brothers stoneware were offered in June: one at Catherine Southon (27.6% buyer’s premium inc VAT) in Chislehurst, Kent, on June 17, the other as part of the Charterhouse (25% buyer’s premium) June 25 sale in Sherborne, Dorset.

What does it take to run a vintage or antiques business in the US selling European interiors items to American buyers?

On a sweltering night in the capital, a record was set for a single-owner sale in London as the Lewis collection raised an extraordinary £296.3m total at Sotheby’s.

Duke’s Fine Jewellery, Watches and Silver auction in Dorchester on June 17-19 was topped at £170,000 by this George III hexagonal pendant centred by a carved Colombian emerald within a border of graduated cushion cut diamonds.

The Treasure House Fair returned for its fourth edition at the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

A remarkable George II giltwood and marble side table sold for £90,000 at Sworders on June 23.

Selected elements of the Frederick Parker Collection of Chairs have been sold at auction ahead of the educational resource’s imminent move to new site in the London Docklands area.

One of a group of seven 16th century tapestries that hung in Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk until they were sold at auction in 1924 has returned home after the National Trust bought it from an antiques dealer following TEFAF Maastricht last year.