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Trying to set a water-speed record is one of sport’s most hazardous competitions – with a high fatality rate as a result.

Based on a slightly earlier American original called The Landlords Game, this example of Brer Fox an’ Brer Rabbit dates to 1913.

The Travellers Tour through the United States of 1822 was once described as the first American board game.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of a Bonhams auction of items from dealers Lorfords in Tetbury.

This panel painting of The Annunciation is on offer at the sale of Old Master paintings at Aguttes on June 17.

Captain EF Hunter’s 'Map of Arabia and The Persian Gulf' was one of the lots fetching sums considerably in advance of what looked to be quite modest estimates in an Oxford book sale.

Christie’s sale in Paris on June 16 includes this portrait of a young woman writing a letter by the artist known as The Master of the Female Half Lengths.

A combination cigarette case and lighter given to Elvis Presley by the king of Thailand sold for six times its top estimate.

Shown here are two highlights from sales of Islamic & Indian art held by London salerooms recently.

Peter Selley, senior director and senior specialist in English literature and history at Sotheby’s in London, died on April 28.

This huge porcelain breakfast service was made to welcome Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their first visit to Scotland in 1842.

Sixteenth century Limoges work depicts underworld scene from Virgil’s The Aeneid

Painting was reoffered without the original vendor being kept in the loop

Sotheby’s Paris sale of Old Masters on June 15 offers a selection of paintings and sculpture spanning the Middle Ages through to the 19th century.

The 'Oath of a Freeman', one of the most infamous forgeries in US history, heads to auction at Heritage this month. It comes for sale from Justin Schiller, the antiquarian bookseller who in 1985 attempted to broker its sale for $1.5m.

The Brontë museum hopes to raise funds to buy rare manuscripts from a rediscovered library collection coming up for sale at Sotheby’s.