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Auction houses selling wine, whisky and other alcoholic drinks to other businesses face criminal convictions and fines up to £10,000 if they fail to register for a new HMRC scheme that aims to police the sale of alcohol to retailers and capture an estimated £1.2bn in unpaid tax. /news/2016/auctioneers-selling-alcohol-told-to-register-with-hmrc-by-march-31-or-face-fines/

Caryl Tincknell of Violet Grey Decorative Gardens specialises in antique garden furniture and vintage garden antiques. She is among the exhibitors at the spring Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair (April 9-14) in Battersea. /print-edition/2019/april/2387/dealers-diary/5-questions-caryl-tincknell-of-violet-grey-decorative-gardens/

MADAM – We have read, with great interest, your reports about the problems encountered by so many antiques dealers since the start of the Covid-19 crisis. /print-edition/2020/july/2452/letters/our-thanks-to-bennie-gray/

Mark Jerram specialises in contemporary figurative pictures and sculpture by Contemporary British artists at his business The Jerram Gallery in Dorset. /print-edition/2020/november/2468/special-report/5-questions-contemporary-british-art-dealer-mark-jerram/

A quill and paint brush belonging to William Morris drew significant interest at Duke’s latest Art and Design sale in Dorchester. /news/2018/william-morris-pen-and-paint-brush-sell-for-2200-at-dorset-auction/

Toy fairs duo takes on long-running Bristol event with a view to broadening its appeal /print-edition/2017/january/2276/fairs-markets/retro-ronnie-heads-to-the-west/

Adrian Gilmour, co-owner of the Hungerford Arcade, is thrilled at news that non-essential retail can reopen in April. /print-edition/2021/march/2483/fairs-markets-centres/antiques-centres-look-ahead-to-reopening/

Renowned classic car auctioneer Max Girardo has left RM Sotheby’s to set up his own London-based brokerage, Girardo & Co, which will deal “in only the highest quality cars available to the market”. /news/2016/new-classic-car-brokerage-to-open/

A Warrington auction house has moved into new premises as a first step towards expansion. /news/2017/new-premises-for-auctioneer-that-sold-john-lennon-s-glasses/

HMRC has warned the art market to be on alert for money laundering attempts during the coronavirus pandemic. /print-edition/2020/may/2440/news/be-alert-to-money-laundering-activity-during-lockdown-says-hmrc/

Eighteen months ago, dealer Lydia Wood launched an antiques trail in the small town of Ashburton on the edge of the Dartmoor National Park in south Devon. /print-edition/2020/july/2451/fairs-markets-centres/ashburton-gets-back-on-the-antiques-trail/

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of TEFAF Maastricht being postponed until September. /print-edition/2021/february/2478/news-digest/news-in-brief-including-news-of-a-date-change-for-tefaf-maastricht/

A sculpture by French artist Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) caught the eye of an American collector at the recent Mayfair Antiques & Fine Art Fair. /print-edition/2023/february/2578/dealers-diary/fair-report-sculpture-bought-by-us-visitor-is-among-highlights-as-mayfair-event-returns/

Battle saleroom Burstow & Hewett (20% buyer’s premium) recently sold the ‘contents of a Sussex manor house’ – the lifetime collection of a local antiques collector and dealer. /print-edition/2025/july/2702/auction-reports/dealers-collection-yields-white-glove-sale-in-sussex/

Fitting delivery vans with showers and toilets was just one of the innovative solutions that haulage and logistics firms had to improvise to keep their vital services running for the art and antiques trade. /print-edition/2020/july/2450/delivery/lock-and-load-up-how-delivery-firms-have-adapted-their-services-to-the-art-and-antiques-trade-during-the-lockdown/

Silverware with connections to key figures from the famous French firm of Puiforcat proved to be a major component in a sale of items from a Parisian family collection held by Beaussant Lefèvre (28% buyer’s premium). /print-edition/2025/may/2694/international/silver-caster-sprinkles-sale-magic-at-a-sensational-88-000-hammer-price/

MALLETT, one of Bond Street’s most famous names, are to expand their New York branch, with work hopefully starting in November. /news/2005/mallett-to-expand-further-in-new-york/

The historic collection of pottery manufacturer Moorcroft could soon be heading to auction following the collapse of the company. /print-edition/2025/may/2694/news/historical-moorcroft-archive-could-be-auctioned/

Stanley Gibbons and Baldwin’s have been cornerstones of the philatelic, numismatic and wider collectables community for a combined 300 years. Victoria Lajer is the current CEO, and began working in the world of philately in 2007. /print-edition/2024/november/2669/dealers-diary/five-questions-with-stanley-gibbons-chief-executive-victoria-lajer/