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A leading art market lawyer is among more than 300 US business chiefs, legal experts and trade bodies attending hearings in Washington, DC this week to argue against the Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on Chinese imports into the US.

A BBC Panorama investigation, due to broadcast tonight, details how legal antique guns can be used by criminals who illegally obtain ammunition to commit crime.

Award-winning designer and silversmith Wayne V Meeten is appealing to the trade to help him find his stolen silver truffle box.

A 1940s cine camera estimated at £200-300 was knocked down for £7800 at Batemans Auctions in Lincolnshire earlier this month.

The second winter edition of London Art Week, a biannual festival that celebrates galleries and auction houses around Mayfair and St James’s, features a series of new salon-style events.

“At that moment, the urge to buy some of his work was born…” In this edition of our weekly roundup of art and antiques quotes, a collector recalls his beginnings as he prepares to sell. Also, experts give their opinions on modern British paintings and an important Chinese vase comes to auction.

More than 200 lots of Moorcroft pottery, many of them sourced from a single-owner collection, are up for sale at the Suffolk auction house Lacy Scott & Knight next month.