Prices, auction results, and the regulations shaping the antiques trade.
Analysis of what's rising and falling in value across the antiques market.
Two collecting categories are moving in opposite directions this year, and dealers who read the signals early stand to gain the most.
From Parisian silver to Machine Age chrome, Art Deco is enjoying its strongest pricing run in a generation, and dealers should understand why.
When spot silver moves sharply, antique silver dealers feel it twice — once in melt value, and once in buyer psychology.
A category-by-category look at where porcelain and ceramics prices are climbing, where they've stalled, and what's driving the divide.
Vintage turntables, tube amplifiers, and mid-century speaker cabinets have become one of the antiques trade's most reliable growth categories.
After two decades of decline, traditional wooden antique furniture is showing real, if uneven, signs of renewed buyer interest.
As bullion prices climb, dealers are having to untangle metal value from craftsmanship value across every era of antique jewelry they handle.
Recaps of major sales from Sotheby's, Christie's, and regional auction houses.
A season-defining furniture sale offered a clear read on where connoisseur demand is concentrating, and where even famous names failed to move the room.
A recent design-focused sale produced both eye-popping records and quiet steals, and the split between the two tells dealers exactly where to focus.
Away from the marquee sales, regional auction houses are quietly outperforming, and their results say more about the trade's actual health than any headline lot.
A recent silver-specialist sale offered a clear read on where collector demand is concentrated across three centuries of English and Continental work.
Bidding paddles have given way to browser tabs, and the shift is changing who buys antiques, what they pay, and how houses run their rooms.
A composite look at how a lifetime collection becomes an auction event, from the first appraisal visit to the gavel falling on the final lot.
Estimates, reserves, and buyer's premiums are not the plain-English figures they appear to be, and misreading them costs bidders real money.
Updates on laws affecting the trade, from wildlife material bans to import/export rules.
Ivory regulation has grown genuinely complex, and the cost of getting it wrong now includes seizure, fines, and lasting reputational damage.
Tortoiseshell sits in a regulatory gray zone many dealers underestimate, and cross-border sales are where the real risk concentrates.
The paperwork that protects an international antiques transaction is rarely glamorous, but its absence is the single most common cause of cross-border deals gone wrong.
Antique inventory rarely respects national borders, and neither, unfortunately, does the patchwork of tax rules a dealer has to navigate to sell it legally.
The provenance gap on an object's paperwork isn't just a cataloging nuisance anymore; it can become a legal claim decades after a sale closes.
Selling online means selling under distance-selling rules built for mass retail, and antiques dealers are still catching up to what that actually requires.
Age alone doesn't settle whether a weapon is legally an antique, and dealers who assume it does are the ones who end up in genuine legal trouble.