Check the fine prints

The British Antique Dealers’ Association is finalising plans for its annual palooza in Chelsea, with 98 dealers lined-up to tout some thoroughly-vetted wares to the well-of-heel and fat-of-wallet.

Online retail behemoth Amazon is getting classy, launching a fine art division with works ranging from a $44 cat portrait up to a $4.85m Norman Rockwell oil on canvas and a Monet for $1.45m.

Pomp and circumstance are never in short supply on The Mall, and this summer will be no different, as fans of fine art and antiques get ready to march along the famous thoroughfare in search of a deal…