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Atlantique founder launches new show in Philadelphia

16 August 2010

The man behind the Atlantique City Fair, once dubbed the largest indoor antiques and collectables fair in the world, is to launch a new event in Pennsylvania.

Wedgwood Museum under threat after £134m pension shortfall

09 August 2010

AN extraordinary legal loophole threatens to decimate the unique collection of the award-winning Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent.

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Brought to heel for £8800

09 August 2010

EXCITING plenty of bidding against its £500-800 estimate at Ely-based saleroom Rowley's was this rare 9in (22.5cm) early 17th century engraved horn shoehorn.

Scam guides target trade yet again

09 August 2010

AFTER more than a decade of targeting unsuspecting dealers, scam advertising company European City Guide have struck again.

Resolving the Lester question

09 August 2010

IS David Lester co-owner of the Olympia summer fair or not?

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Early Millais drawings found inside Led Zeppelin LP

09 August 2010

Led Zeppelin, Robert Burns and a 14-year-old John Everett Millais might seem unlikely bedfellows. But a group of four pencil drawings which have surfaced at the Devon auctioneers Chilcotts of Tiverton appear to link the three.

New review for export service

09 August 2010

THE future of the Export Review Licensing service is under review again after Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced the scrapping of the Museums and Libraries Association (MLA) which administers it.