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This Victorian dirk – with ensuite knife and fork – sold for 10 times the top estimate, £2000, at McTear’s (24% buyer’s premium) in Glasgow on January 21.

Sold for €160,000 (£144,145) was a letter sent by Félix Régamy to his brother Frédéric including a drawing of Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine in England.

It can be a long, lonely time on the rostrum when you have 1000 lots to offer for sale over two days in an empty Grantham saleroom, save for staff members taking phone bids.

Such was the demand for suits of armour from late 19th and early 20th century collectors that European master armourers were kept hard at work long after the practical need for such protective wear had passed.

Krupp mountain guns made in Nanjing as China modernised come up at Thomas Del Mar auction.

First edition of Napoleon Hill’s 'Think and Grow Rich' sells at auction

MADAM – I am curating an exhibition being held by the Garden Museum, London, this year which will celebrate the life and achievements of Constance Spry (1886-1960), florist and gardener.

Signed by the author and all members of the cast, the stage manager and the props manager, a 1943, Heinemann first of 'Present Laughter' was one of two Noel Coward plays that made up a lot sold for £1600 via thesaleroom.com in a Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) auction.

MADAM – I would like to pay an (overdue) tribute to Antiques Trade Gazette.

Even the composite parts of weapons now long lost have a value at auction.

Theodolite and telescope made to high standards measure up in two salerooms

Signed and inscribed Marilyn Monroe photo to 'Joe' poses an auction puzzler

Running to 600 lots, a sale held by Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) included a great many maps and prints alongside books.

The market for antique furniture received a welcome boost last week with Christie’s sale titled Apter-Fredericks 75 Years of Important English Furniture.

Some of the most eagerly contested lots in the Aynhoe Park: The Celebration of a Modern Grand Tour sale held by Dreweatts in Oxfordshire on January 20-21 were those created by the owner of the property himself.

Bermondsey Antiques Market is under new management and will return to trading once lockdown restrictions ease.

The heads of three associations say dealers need to rise to the challenges during the toughest trading period for decades

News of the Supreme Court ruling that will allow thousands of small businesses to receive insurance payouts covering losses from the first national coronavirus lockdown has been largely welcomed within the art and antiques trade.