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A drawing by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) sold to a phone bidder for £32,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Chiswick Auctions last week.

Art market businesses will have more time to register under the 5th Money Laundering Directive.

With more than 700 auctions set to take place in the UK in September and buyers back from whatever summer break they managed to take, this month is set to be a busy one for gavel-wielders and bidders alike. Here we showcase an array of items to be offered across a range of categories and price points.

Wider spectrum of buyers means presenting catalogue entries in greater detail can pay off

At the very beginning of July, Adam Partridge in Liverpool sold an early 20th century Spode cup and saucer to a highly desirable ‘liner china’ pattern for £8400.

Delay due to lockdown turns out to be a blessing in disguise in terms of consignments

'Firsts, London’s Rare Book Fair' has announced a second digital staging to take place this month.

Robert Morrison, a protestant missionary, pioneer sinologist and author of several works on the Chinese language as well as a translator, has been called the ‘Father of Anglo-Chinese Literature’.

This 4ft (1.2m) long Tongan Aku-Tau ironwood war club will feature in a sale of Militaria and Ethnographica to be held by Tennants in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, on September 4.

Pictured below are three lots of Oceanic art that proved to be in much demand during UK sales held in August.

Two pictures with animal appeal generated decent bidding at a North Yorkshire auction.

Cornish event returns for second staging after ‘excellent response’ from dealers and visitors

Mathematical work makes £300,000 in auction where composers also feature heavily

This Gauge II steam-powered locomotive below was made by Schoenner, the Nüremberg toymaker operating founded by Jean Schoenner in 1875.

Rare book specialist Hamish Riley-Smith, who died on August 10, did not originally intend to become a dealer.

Nearly six months after doors closed on the last major British antiques fair, another is ready to open.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from September 1-16, 2020.

This sailor’s walking cane below displays many elements of the scrimshander’s art: a whalebone shaft carved with spiral fluting, collars inlaid with shell from the hawksbill turtle and a handle carved as a dove from the tooth of a sperm whale.

This 12in (39cm) Portobello pottery plaque piece, c.1820, is a rare piece but one known in a number of different colour variations.