Auctioneers

A 20in (51cm) transfer printed pearlware dish picturing the Durham Ox sold for £3000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at an Antiques & Interiors sale at Bellmans in Billingshurst, West Sussex, on September 1-2.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including auction houses Budds and Spink announcing a collaboration

For the Bed at Kelmscott was written by William Morris in 1891 as an ode to the oak four-poster at his country home in the Thames Valley.

One of the most renowned names in cricket history scored a high auction result at Knights (20% buyer’s premium) on August 6-9.

The dedicated sale Constructing a Legacy: The Collection of Sir William & Lady McAlpine held by Dreweatts (27/26/20% buyer’ s premium) on August 12 included an intriguing bit of football history.

John Cumming (1930-2008) is regarded as one of the greatest players in Heart of Midlothian FC’s history.

Top-lot honours in a summer sale of European furniture and decorative arts at Freeman’s (28% buyer’s premium) in Chicago went to a 1903 showpiece Martelé silver punch bowl by Gorham.

How an online-only auction house is taking its biggest consignment to a global audience.

An oversize 1881 albumen photograph of Thomas Hill’s painting 'The Last Spike', depicting the instant of the creation of the first continental railroad in the US, rolled to a five-figure sum at Freeman’s (28% buyer’s premium) in Chicago.

Auctioneer and valuer Colin Young is celebrating a 40-year career in auctioneering in Lincolnshire this month.

Anderson & Garland is marking the retirement of its much-loved porter Tony Gilroy after 50 years with the firm.

A small landscape by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944) depicting a scene near Lyme Regis in Dorset was among the lots attracting interest at the sale of the Simon Hilton collection at Sworders (27% buyer’s premium).

The latest sale of Art Nouveau and Art Deco at Rago (28% buyer’s premium) in Lambertville, New Jersey yielded impressive results, totalling $953,938 (£781,450), selling 97% by lot and 165% by value.

It was a long, long summer of football – both in terms of the World Cup and the auctions that ran alongside the exhausting, extended extravaganza with a deeply disappointing final game.

Thomas Annan’s Photographs of The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow is the earliest and most famous photographic record of the city’s slums.