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Top-seller when a collection of antiques from the estate of a descendant of one of Britain’s longest-serving chancellors of the exchequer went to auction in the Cotswolds was an oil painting “in the manner of 17th century royal portraitist Peter Lely”.

Kali shaped from local hardwoods, typically ironwood, were traditionally made by canoe-builders in the South Sea islands.

Two of London’s salerooms sold Georgian pocket globes on March 12. Both hammered well above what proved modest estimates.

Two years after a Wiltshire auction house set a record for Titanic memorabilia with “the watch recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor”, another timekeeper making precisely the same claim is coming to market.

Alice Liddell was just a 10-year-old living in Oxford in the 1860s when Charles Dodgson – better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll – spun a fantastical tale to her and her two sisters Edith and Lorina on a summer afternoon by the Thames.

Antiques dealership John Bly is celebrating its 135th year in business with an exhibition.

South Queensferry, west of Edinburgh, was named last year by The Telegraph as the most beautiful town in Scotland.

This vintage duck model is on advertising duties for the annual Beccles Antiques Market run since 2009 by dealer Kate Lee.

A remarkable assortment of jewellery is on offer at this spring’s Classic Antique Fairs.

Every spring and autumn for the past 10 years Francophile dealer Sharon Dallas turns her home into an antiques shop .

Second Llandudno business gets off the ground

Lake District cabinetmaker and woodcarver Ernest John Oldcorn trained at Gillows of Lancaster but he found his niche after joining the Arthur W Simpson workshop.

Sales abound as annual event run by Cotswold dealers association returns to Chelsea

LAPADA has confirmed details and early exhibitor names for its autumn fair.

The March 3-4 sale at Chorley’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire, was topped by a good example of Qing imperial needlework: a yellow ground silk and metal thread cushion cover.

Building work is under way to create a 1000sq ft saleroom at Thomson Roddick Callan’s Auction Centre in Rosewell, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

Bidding competition breaks out in south London for Mannerist work discovered in a west London house