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On a summer’s day earlier this year, Evan McPherson, senior valuer at Auctioneum, was carrying out a standard valuation at a house clearance in Bristol. Inside, he found the usual collection of furnit

Over six decades, the American financier and businessman T Kimball Brooker assembled one of the finest rare book libraries ever to come to auction. Dubbed ‘Bibliotheca Brookeriana’, it comprised over

Even today, when prices for a good Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow have risen to a level vaguely commensurate with their stunning quality, these are still hugely undervalued cars – victims of their own succ

Orlando Whitfield wades into the murky backwaters of the multibillion-pound art market to tell the true stories of the world’s most thrilling frauds, forgeries and heists

Pierre d’Alancaisez on Art

A writer unimpressed by George Orwell