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London gallery holds its second exhibition since it started to represent the artist’s estate six years ago

From an elephant gun team to a double-decker and general on a hobby horse, good prices are still paid for collectable toys.

Kosuge (Kosuge Toy Industrial Co Ltd), with the trademark KSG in a diamond, was Matsuzo Kosuge.

It is now 10 years since we started Forum Auctions.

Ahead of a very busy period for the trade, we kick off our guide to the events coming up with a London fair marking the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence.

Gustave Vichy was born in 1839 to a Parisian watch and clock maker Antoine Michel who, along with his wife, set up the Vichy company in 1862 with the aim of building and selling clocks, mechanical objects and toys.

The association of native American and Scottish Highlander advertising figures with tobacconists began in England and Holland in the 17th century and later spread to America.

An early 19th century wooden peg doll featuring the original costume of a straw bonnet and cream silk dress with a mother of pearl belt, and red leather shoes, has sold for £3000 to a UK collector.

Callum White, a young book collector from Birmingham, won last year’s ABA National Book Collecting Prize awarded in December for his collection Splitting the world: The atomic scientists and their second acts. He told ATG about his background, how he started the collection and his plans for it

A round up of new developments from around the art trade

How about this for a special deal?

Back in October 2024 Lewes saleroom Wallis & Wallis made what was thought to be a record price for Scalextric, taking £7750 for a C70 Type 59 Bugatti.

A new dealership has joined the ranks of the art, antiques and interior specialists of Fulham’s Lillie Road.