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The highlight of Tajan’s (25/20/12%buyer’s premium) Old Masters auction held on June 22 was an impressive large-scale modello created by the Italian artist Francesco Solimena (1657-1747) in preparation for his painting for the ceiling of San Domenico Maggiore, in Naples.

Aboriginal art from the collection of Richard Kelton (1929-2019) will be offered by Abell of Los Angeles in an auction on July 28.

The reference 3330 antimagnetic is one of the rarest pre-Oyster chronographs made by Rolex.

After a world-wide pre-sale tour that took in three continents, a five-day public viewing in Paris and over two weeks of live and online sales, on June 23 the curtain finally came down on Christie’s Paris (26/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) summer auction series of the collection of Hubert de Givenchy (1927-2018).

The Map of Florida shown here was issued in 1829 to encourage settlement following its still recent acquisition from Spain.

Pictured here is one of two very successful lots relating to the career of Houdini that were sold in a Chicago auction.

An ancient Egyptian cartonnage Mummy mask was the top-selling lot in an auction of Antiquities held by Hindman (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) in Chicago.

Butterscotch in New York is holding its summer estates auction on July 17.

BRAFA’s new Expo base hailed as a success as Belgian fair returns to face-to-face business

Offered as part of a New York sale held by Swann (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) were the two imaginative aerial views reproduced here.

Single-owner group offers 007 toys and gadgets mainly from the Sean Connery era

This mid-20th century illusionist apparatus will feature in Potter & Potter’s latest Magic sale when it auctions the lifetime collection of Jim Deloach in Chicago on July 16.

Swann Auction Galleries is holding a sale of vintage posters in New York on August 4.

The third sale from the eclectic collection of Jim Dixon was held online by Bonhams Skinner (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).