Auctioneers

This 15th century gold ring, set with a rhomb-shaped table-cut sapphire, is engraved with lilies and other flowers issuing from a crescent bowl.

Heritage Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Dallas broke the record again for what it terms “the most valuable original work of comic book or fantasy art” during its four-day Comics & Comic Art sale held on June 22-25.

A Tennis Match at Manchester is a very rare print marking one of the first British tennis tournaments.

Underwear soars above estimate at a Richard Winterton auction

Another tranche of items from the Dudley Ollis collection of playing cards was offered at a recent Dominic Winter auction.

Three auctions follow on from the October series to offer items from the collectors’ Californian residence

A chance purchase at auction during lockdown inspired a whole book on a single day of the Tour de France 100 years ago

Needing work but with an impeccable pedigree, this striking drop-dial wall clock topped the day at Bellmans (25% buyer’s premium).

Works by Reginald Pepper (fl.1970s-90s) are not very common at auction – and this is not just because he doesn’t exist.

An early career in London led Chris Ewbank, who died on June 25 aged 78, to the auction business at the Cubitt & West salerooms in Guildford – a few miles west of his childhood home in Mayfield, Sussex, where his father was an estate agent-cum-auctioneer.

Buffy Parker is celebrating 50 years in the art market.

Auctioneer Chris Ewbank, who launched the Ewbank’s saleroom in Send, Surrey, has died.

The June 8 sale at Toovey’s (24.5% buyer’s premium) in Washington, West Sussex included a fine example of Meiji cloisonné by Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845-1927).

Vendor finds glass marbles are worth more than expected as they make surprise four-figure sums in Bury St Edmunds

Pieces from two single-owner collections of silver by Stuart Devlin (1931-2018) and the partnership of Omar Ramsden (1873-1939) and Alwyn Carr (1872-1940) focused specialist eyes on Murray’s (20% buyer’s premium) in Douglas, Isle of Man.

Painting of an Indian Mutiny scene smashes the record thanks to bidding from the sub-continent