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A shake-up of the art lending market has been proposed by the Law Commission with eventual plans for an art assets register.

A pair of Queen Victoria's drawers sold for a record-breaking £16,250 at Christie’s South Kensington on September 14.

A Fijian cannibal fork was sold at Duke’s in Dorchester for £7500 on September 16.

Two fresh to the market Edvard Munch prints are coming up for sale at Sotheby’s Prints & Multiples sale in London on September 27.

A new London book fair organised by a pair of dealers debuts this autumn and features some of the trade’s most familiar names in a three-day luxury event.

Lord and Lady Attenborough’s collection of Pablo Picasso ceramics will be up for auction in November at Sotheby’s in London.

Film buffs take note, auctioneers Thomas Plant and Neil Shuttleworth of Special Auction Services are to preside over a movie memorabilia auction on September 27 totalling nearly 600 lots.

Paintings by the intensely private artist Keith Cunningham are to be reintroduced to the public during an upcoming exhibition in Hoxton.

The Osbourne family have snapped up Black Sabbath memorabilia ahead of a planned auction in Sheffield.

A 19th century singing bird box is a starring lot at an upcoming County Durham auction that features several animal-themed lots.

Auction house Bonhams are to host an exhibition titled The Colony Room: Masterpieces from Pallant House Gallery, celebrating the fabled London drinking den beloved of artists.

Derbyshire based Hansons Auctioneers are expanding into coins and antiquities with a new department called Historica.

Dealer John Bird was long established in Petworth when the tenure of his old shop came to an end, but this did not spell and end for the West Sussex furniture specialist.

A forthcoming Fine Art Society exhibition will feature over 70 works by leading British Pop artist Gerald Laing

Pall Mall is known for its members clubs but The Fine Art Auction Group, parent company of Dreweatts-Bloomsbury and Mallett, are to set up a London hub on the street in a bid to relaunch their interiors business.

High Road Auctions will be relaunched as London Auctions after a refurbishment by the new owner of the Chiswick based saleroom.

The majority of a collection that was previously part of a long-running public exhibition of The Jam memorabilia comes to auction in Liverpool this October.

We meet the imaginative designer who makes wedding dresses from repurposed silk 'escape and evade' war maps.

As London sizzled in a late summer heatwave, the antiques industry cooled off by raising a glass to 45 years of the Antiques Trade Gazette. Next generation mingled with more seasoned players at the party hosted in the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair pavilion.

A collection of Lowry prints and a painting by Andrew Vicari, previously known as one of the richest living artists, are up for auction at Grand Auctions in Folkestone next week.