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Busy 2022 for Arthur Swallow Fairs

Popular antiques, vintage and salvage events organiser, Arthur Swallow Fairs, has released its dates for the coming year, taking place

An intriguing signature written by legendary escape artist Harry Houdini when he performed in the Huddersfield Hippodrome is coming up

One of only 250 violins ever created by leading Turin maker Carlo Giuseppe Oddone (1866-1935) is expected to fetch up

A rare uncorrected proof of the first Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling, is

A Bank of England £5 note issued in Newcastle on Tyne – one of only two known examples in private hands

Beloved by royalty and the rich for furnishing their great houses during the Victorian era, Richard Ginger discovers why furniture by Howard

A lifelong friendship borne out of the shared experience as two of the youngest pilots serving during World War II,

A Kangxi period (1662-1722) blue and white brush pot was the top seller at an Essex auctioneer’s recent Asia Art

Rare Staffordshire pottery collected over 50 years by a headmaster from one of England’s oldest schools could sell for tens

Suffolk auctioneers Bishop & Miller Auctioneers have expanded their team of specialist valuers with the appointment of a period oak