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Auction Technology Group (ATG) - parent company of Antiques Trade Gazette and thesaleroom.com - has merged with German art and antiques portal Lot-tissimo.com.

Police are investigating the theft of more than £100,000 worth of stock taken from a Harrogate antiques shop.

Having suffered five wounds and been taken prisoner in the First World War, fortune could have smiled more favourably on Victoria Cross winner Corporal Sidney Day by the time the 1939-45 conflict came around.

A £1.5m watercolour by British artist John Martin has been barred from export in the hope a buyer in the UK can be found.

Football Sport Auctions (FSA) director Andrew John Lane has been disqualified from being a company director for 10 years following the liquidation of the company in April 2016.

Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert’s current exhibition features the art of Modern British artist Peter Lanyon (1918-64).

Multi-estimate results greeted the Joyce Paretti collection of perfume bottles sold by John Nicholson’s of Fernhurst in two instalments.

A previously unrecorded teapot attributed to a pioneering American porcelain factory sold at a Woolley & Wallis auction today for £460,000. The vendor of the teapot, a private collector from south-west of England, had bought it recently in the Midlands for just £15.

A saleroom that sold a selection of items related to the Dambusters has moved on about 30 years for its latest aviation lot: a nose cone from Concorde.

The British Museum is to hold an exhibition on money and medals in a tie-up with specialist London coin and stamp auction Spink.

What could become the most valuable collection ever auctioned is going on show in London this week.

Among the leading sellers at Batemans’ recent auction was this portrait of a small terrier.