In its day, Hepplewhite was often referred to as"city furniture." During a recent episode of Discovery Channel's TV show"Auction Kings,"I appraised a Federal period writing desk that was once ...

Australia's Perpetual will be broken up, with its name sold to global investment firm KKR & Co , in a deal worth over A$1.5 billion ($990 million), the Australian Financial Review reported on Tuesday.

Australia's Perpetual Ltd has terminated talks with KKR for the A$2.2 billion ($1.4 billion) sale of its wealth management and corporate trust units and said it would pursue a sale of its wealth ...

The deal comes 16 months after Perpetual acquired smaller fund manager Pendal in a deal worth $1.6 billion and is now being demerged with KKR buying the corporate and wealth management units.

A reproduction Hepplewhite sideboard will bring a few thousand dollars on the open market, but a good, original example of Hepplewhite furniture can bring $50,000 to $75,000 at auction.