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Australian auction house Mossgreen is in administration and a creditors’ meeting will be held this week.

The government received more than 60,000 responses to the public consultation on the banning of the ivory trade in the UK - making it one of Defra’s most popular ever.

Two C’s Antiques Fairs has taken over the management of the January London Ceramics Fair, which has been renamed the Kensington Glass and Ceramics Fair.

On January 15 Lawrences of Crewkerne will sell the second half of a remarkable collection of vesta cases or match safes pieced together over a 50 year period by the late John and Patricia McKenzie.

Antiques Trade Gazette wishes all our readers a very Happy New Year.

London dealers Agnews and Rafael Valls have jointly sold a 17th century portrait of a woman who suffered from a rare congenital condition to the Wellcome Collection.

Charles Hanson, the indefatigable Derbyshire auctioneer, is making his first move into the London market, with the launch of Hansons London in January. Here he tells ATG why the time is right for his expansion down south and how he'll differentiate the business from London rivals