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A recent sale held by Stair Galleries (28% buyer’s premium) in Hudson, New York, was led by this oil on board by Auguste-Elysée Chabaud (1882-1955).

The ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair will take place in its charming and traditional location: Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road.

A rare presentation ship model, made to commemorate what Nelson called his ‘hardest fought battle’, sold at Doyle New York.

Crawford Bray is gallery manager for Karl Kemp which is exhibiting at the 13th Salon Art + Design in New York from November 7-11

When Marcel Duchamp was recruited in 1953 by New York gallerist Sidney Janis to create a retrospective of the Dada art movement, he rose to the challenge.

Its survival a mystery for years, a rare 1950s Meccano store display figure has surfaced in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Among the hundreds of new products launched at the Exposition Universelle in 1900 was the so-called eggshell porcelain, produced by the Rozenburg Royal Delftware Factory in the Hague.

Designed by George Tinworth, c.1885, this Doulton Lambeth spill vase commemorates the first transatlantic phone call between the UK and the US.

Broadside offered $100,000 reward in total for apprehension of president’s killer and accomplices

Relatively little is known about the German-born artist and designer Elsa Tennhardt (1899-1980).

A recent Vintage Posters sale at Swann Galleries (25/20/12% buyer’s premium), a summer staple of the New York auction house, was dominated by three large early 20th century magic posters, each hammering for $22,000 (£16,650).

Memorabilia collected by a founding father of modern computing makes for a remarkable auction