The price of silver has effectively doubled over the last six months. While many pieces of Victorian silver such as flatware, ...

Despite suffering from water damage, wear and loss to the sheet as well as chips and cracks to the later 1950s-style frame, a head study of a bearded man brought intense competition at a recent sale ...

A first glimpse of the now instantly recognisable trophy from the oldest national football competition in the world came courtesy of this proposal. Fattorini & Sons, along with approximately 150 ...

Geoffrey Whitaker, entrepreneur, dealer and founder of the International Antiques & Collectors Fairs (IACF), died over the Christmas holiday aged 82, after a period of illness. Born in Newark in 1943 ...

Auction house and dealer hires among the latest recruitment round up. The latest Movers & Shakers in the UK and overseas ...

Two dealers are celebrating the New Year by taking on the ownership of antiques centres in the Lake District and Glasgow. Book dealer Roger Treglown, a past president of the Antiquarian Booksellers ...

Wartime scenes by Paul Nash (1889-1946) are a seminal part of his oeuvre, especially his famous series of paintings from 1917-19 showing the blasted landscape of the Western Front. Wartime scenes by ...

A sketch believed to be the work of Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), and which contains a distinctive second face, is to be offered at BRAFA this month.

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of dealer Matthew Upham disappearing at sea during a Christmas Day swim ...

A bust of 18th century politician and landowner John Gordon of Invergordon (1707-83) has been blocked from export by the UK government in the hope a museum will raise the £3.1m needed to keep it in ...

A huge single-owner collection of Oscar Wilde letters, books and portraits are going under the hammer at Bonhams next month.

Antiques dealers and singer Kate Bush were among those paying tribute to Matthew Upham, 64, following his tragic disappearance at sea. The antiques dealer was one of two swimmers who went missing ...