Heritage Auctions has recorded sales of $1.87bn (£1.5bn) for 2024 – its highest ever total.

Gurr Johns, the art advisory and appraisals firm, has appointed Maarten ten Holder as chief executive of the group’s North American operation. Based in New York, ten Holder, who has experience in the ...

The UK’s ban on the trade in antique scrimshaw and narwhal tusks will come into force on January 28.

Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...

Silver spoons for the dining table have been around since antiquity - a much longer history than the table fork, which did not come into general use until the 18 th century. By this time spoons had ...

The earliest collectors of firearms were probably monarchs intent on amassing armouries to demonstrate their wealth and power. They also became patrons, employing expert craftsmen to create better and ...

After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares. Long admired for ...

It has taken just over a month for the Art Fund’s £2.74m appeal to save the Wedgwood Collection to reach its target. It will now be gifted to the V&A but will stay in situ at the Wedgwood Museum in ...

An American beer can achieved a record $80,000 (£63,850) at Morean Auctions in Brimfield, Massachusetts, at the end of last year. Made from heavy-gauge steel c.1935, the 12oz flat top can once ...

EBay has effectively placed a buyer’s premium on sales from private vendors with the introduction of its Buyer Protection scheme. The online selling platform, that recently made selling free for ...

Among the Modern British pictures generating bidding at the end of last year was a portrait by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) that was lifted to an above-estimate sum thanks to a combination of ...

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