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THE British Antique Dealers’ Association have called off plans for their much-debated January fair in New York.

Auction house acquire leading Old Master dealer with debts of $26m

Cadogan Tate Fine Art have launched a new weekly transport service from London and Paris to Switzerland to meet the growing demand for discreet fine art transport.

As if they will need it, some of the lots included in Christie’s June 13-14 sale of items from the collection of HRH The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930-2002) have received a little posthumous pepping up.

Southampton Solent University will officially launch their new Art, Design and Society Scheme on Friday June 23.

Rare and significant works of art from the Old World will just occasionally surface, unrecorded, in the New.

This very fine early Regency period drum table c.1805 in a faded honey-coloured rosewood prompted an extraordinary bidding battle at Clevedon Salerooms near Bristol on June 1. Estimated at £4000-6000, it sold at a house record £200,000 (plus 15% buyer’s premium) to a member of the London trade. The underbidder was also a London dealer.