The most viewed stories on this website over 2025 included news of tributes being paid to Flog It! specialist and silver expert Michael Baggott who died in January ...

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 ...

Three photographs of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace (1815-52) have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in a private treaty sale. The images, the only known photographs of the mathematician ...

Veteran Portobello Road Market dealer Anne Swift and her son Phil were the victims of a theft from their market stall. They are now issuing a call to fellow dealers and auction houses in case they are ...

The top pictures sold at regional salerooms in 2025 included an Old Master, a Lavery double portrait and a John Constable sketch. Here we pick out five of the best results which were covered in ATG ...

Antiques dealers in bladed items are hoping to encourage collectors to respond to the latest consultation. The Home Office consultation, led by the Firearms & Weapons Policy Unit, asks for views on ...

Many dealers mark the closing days of the year with a specially curated holiday edit. These lists sometimes include more affordable works. They can also feature items of specialist inter… ...

ATG wishes all our readers a very happy Christmas. If you're keen to brush up on your art and antiques knowledge over the festive season, you'll find p… ...

They did this to avoid the perils of travel and (after 1784) to escape paying duty in a region where a heathy distain for the Hanoverians persisted well into the 19 th century. Currently some 30 ...

British awards and decorations have many fascinating stories. There are two major categories: campaign medals and gallantry medals. Campaign medals are awarded to members of the British Armed Forces, ...

"In their view, we Londoners know little about God, and nothing about pottery". Royal Doulton's rise from London makers of domestic stonewares to an internationally-recognised Staffordshire Potteries ...

Up to the mid-1670s, English glasses, like their Continental counterparts, were made of soda glass producing thinly constructed, lightweight vessels of fluid design. The patenting by George ...