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Few will be unaware that 2005 is the bicentenary of Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar, given the number of celebrations and exhibitions commemorating the event.

Never was an event more aptly named than Brian and Anna Haughton’s International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, the veteran ceramics fest which celebrated its 24th staging from June 16-19.

LIKE so much material where the name is so much part of the game, the exquisite objets d’art fashioned in the Russian workshops of Carl Fabergé have attracted copyists, repro-producers and outright forgers.

THE Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers welcomed six new Honorary Associate Members at their biannual dinner in London last week.

THIEVES escaped with £10,000 worth of furniture and antiques in a raid on a dealer in Staffordshire.

English folk art with an American accent. Not only did the pair of child portraits seen at the Athenaeum in Bury St Edmunds on June 15 represent charming examples of early 19th century folk art, they also carried the name of an artist who would move to America shortly after they were painted.

IT was just three weeks into the First World War when British destroyers engaged the enemy off the Heligoland Bight near Denmark.