Auctioneers

Auctioneers and dealers will have to provide proof that antique ivory is aged 70 years and older, according to media reports this morning.

SPECTACULAR sums were paid for Chinese ceramics devoted to tea drinking during last week’s Asian works of art sales in New York.

A pair of Queen Victoria's drawers sold for a record-breaking £16,250 at Christie’s South Kensington on September 14.

A Fijian cannibal fork was sold at Duke’s in Dorchester for £7500 on September 16.

Two fresh to the market Edvard Munch prints are coming up for sale at Sotheby’s Prints & Multiples sale in London on September 27.

Chrisite’s New York hope match the record they set for Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) four years ago with a painting that comes to the market for the first time in 50 years.

Lord and Lady Attenborough’s collection of Pablo Picasso ceramics will be up for auction in November at Sotheby’s in London.

Film buffs take note, auctioneers Thomas Plant and Neil Shuttleworth of Special Auction Services are to preside over a movie memorabilia auction on September 27 totalling nearly 600 lots.

The Osbourne family have snapped up Black Sabbath memorabilia ahead of a planned auction in Sheffield.

A 19th century singing bird box is a starring lot at an upcoming County Durham auction that features several animal-themed lots.

Auction house Bonhams are to host an exhibition titled The Colony Room: Masterpieces from Pallant House Gallery, celebrating the fabled London drinking den beloved of artists.

Derbyshire based Hansons Auctioneers are expanding into coins and antiquities with a new department called Historica.

Pall Mall is known for its members clubs but The Fine Art Auction Group, parent company of Dreweatts-Bloomsbury and Mallett, are to set up a London hub on the street in a bid to relaunch their interiors business.

High Road Auctions will be relaunched as London Auctions after a refurbishment by the new owner of the Chiswick based saleroom.

The majority of a collection that was previously part of a long-running public exhibition of The Jam memorabilia comes to auction in Liverpool this October.

It may have been their debut appearance at the 14th annual fine art auctioneers vs dealers five-a-side football tournament, but Capital Fine Art Removals carried all before them to lift the trophy.

West Sussex auction house Bellmans have expanded over the border to Hampshire and will hold their first sale in their new home tomorrow.

Coin dealers and auctioneers AH Baldwin & Sons have appointed Neil Paisley as managing director.

A gold watch given by The Who drummer Keith Moon and John Entwistle’s Anello & Davide tan suede heeled boots are among the lots up for sale in the Film & Music Memorabilia Auction at Aston’s Auctioneers on September 15.

The sentencing of former porters and auctioneers in Paris this week for the organised theft of thousands of artworks means the affair “belongs in the past”, the head of France’s auctioneering body told ATG.