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The government is proposing to strengthen the Treasure Act to include important finds that do not fit the current legal definition.

ATG’s selection of hammer highlights over the past week include a Chelsea white-glazed model of a red squirrel and a 17th century portrait miniature.

The potential for vendors, and auctioneers, to strike it rich in the field of Chinese works of art is alive and well.

Christie’s has raised its buyer’s premium, increasing the level at which its 25% threshold applies and adding an extra percentage point to its charges above £3m. The new schedule takes effect from February 1.

The Haughton International Seminar is to put the spotlight on historic collectors this summer with its third annual event ‘Great Collectors: Taste, Passion & Patronage’.

A large haul of vintage costume jewellery has been stolen from a car in Birmingham and its owner is appealing to the trade to help recover the items.

Julian Trevelyan’s last painting, depicting Strawberry Hill against a pink sky, sold in the first hours of Connect Art Fair’s inaugural staging yesterday.

Pictures by Mod Brit artists including Barbara Hepworth and Julian Trevelyan will go under the hammer at Cambridge auction house Cheffins following a council’s decision to offload artworks from storage.

Industry trade bodies are today launching a survey that will attempt to measure the financial impact of the Ivory Act (2018) which comes into force later this year. Collectors, dealers and auctioneers of antique ivory are being encouraged to take part.

The London auctions ‘hub’ of 25 Blythe Road will now operate under a single banner of Olympia Auctions.

The London Photograph Fair has a new venue at the Hellenic Centre in Marylebone.

Around 100 dealers will gather at the House of Lords next month for the latest annual LAPADA conference.