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TIM Hirsch, managing director of Spink, has succeeded in leading a management buy-out of the firm from Christie’s.

THE trade will soon be able to scour museum collections all around the country from the comfort of their own homes.

One of the greatest public works that Sir Edwin Lutyens undertook was the erection of a doll’s house for Queen Mary in 1923. A miniature palace inside Windsor Castle, Mary’s doll’s house was more opulently decorated than the humble abodes of her loyal, grown-up subjects.

The Fine Art Valuation degree course at Southampton Institute has lost almost half its teaching staff in the past year with the student intake dropping 60 per cent since 1998.

This bright red Dinky Holland Coachcraft streamlined van was one of only a few thousand, which in terms of Dinky’s prolific production rate is very few, to be made during their single year of production in 1935.

A NEW auctions group have unveiled plans to establish a UK network of salerooms, but say their ambitions remain strictly provincial.

The Italian art market is in shock at the arrest of one of its major players for the sale of fake works of art and other crimes.