North America

A set of 24 Art Deco Gallia animalier knife rests hammered for $8000 (£5950) against a guide of $3000-5000 at an Objet sale at Wright (28% buyer’s premium) in Chicago, Illinois.

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 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.

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

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

The top lot in Stair’s (31% buyer’s premium) Americana sale had a distinctly British profile.

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.

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.

'Rumsinterior', a signed, undated oil on canvas by Swiss-born Danish artist Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926), hammered for $24,000 (£17,900) at Stair (31% buyer’s premium).

Described as a “pair of Chinese porcelain candlesticks. Late 19th century” and bearing the modest guide of $600-800, a pair of iron red-decorated holy water vessels hammered for $85,000 (£63,375) at Tremont Auctions (19% 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.

Collotype portfolios by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) ranked first and second in a Prints & Multiples sale at Toomey & Co (28% buyer’s premium) in Chicago.

Full set of seasonal series from the 1840s stars as Californian collection of literature comes for sale in US

George Washington portrait was thought to be a copy of Gilbert Stuart work by Canton artist Foeiqua

Among the major dealers in portrait miniatures are Elle Shushan and Philip Mould & Company.