International

Although John Webber’s (1752-93) engraved plates emerge on the market with some regularity, his original works are much rarer.

The latest Australian and international art sale at Menzies (25% buyer’s premium including GST) in Melbourne compared well to previous auctions in terms of sell-through rates, even if the overall total was slightly lower than its previous two auctions – something the saleroom said was not uncommon for a winter sale.

At last, the US version of Antiques Roadshow has won its first Emmy award.

Weighing in at over 40kg, a toy showpiece was not so Dinky after all.

The market in Australia remains steady, maintaining good selling rates and some strong key areas

Portrait miniatures by the renowned British artist face a different and difficult modern mindset

Neumeister (25% buyer’s premium), a stalwart of the German auction market, held its last auction in Munich this summer.

For over 300 years, 12 generations of the Liechti family in the northern Swiss town of Winterthur built clocks.

The auction titled The Collection of a Florida Bibliophile held at Doyle (28% buyer’s premium) included a collection of 18th century peepshows and an original oak viewing box.

In retrospect, it was a blessing for Victor-Gabriel Gilbert (1847-1935) that his parents did not have the money to finance his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Film scholars have described Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon as “the greatest movie never made”.

Toy specialist Lankes (25% buyer’s premium) in the small Bavarian town of Döhlau could harvest a bumper crop of good results during its sale of July 20-24.

Hargesheimer (25% buyer’s premium) in Düsseldorf devoted an auction to the sale of 61 works of art from the collection of a couple from Wiesbaden who had spent many decades amassing sculptures and old master paintings.

Sale of 14th amendment document from 1867 coincides with Supreme Court case, happily for vendor

Scheublein (27% buyer’s premium) offered 1000 lots from the collection of a branch of the Bavarian royal family this summer.

Bidders from as far afield as Saudi Arabia vied for an ancient Egyptian bronze of the deity Osiris at Kunst & Kuriosa (21% buyer’s premium) in Heidelberg.

The prosaic description ‘flute stopper’ hardly does justice to the function and ritual importance of the carved wooden artefact sold by Lempertz (27% buyer’s premium).

When it was introduced to the public in 1956 by the electronics company Braun, the compact stereo system Phonosuper was a spectacular design innovation.