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Rowling, Hammett and Herbert take notable prices in Dallas – along with a rather older New Testament

This sterling silver and enamel vase is a rare beast.

The latest Rare Books, Manuscripts, & Ephemera sale at Quinn’s Auction Galleries (27% buyer’s premium) contained a bound manuscript that captured an episode of Anglo-Indian history.

New York saleroom Auctions at Showplace (23% buyer’s premium) offered a well-documented Turner watercolour on October 8.

Sojourner Truth (c.1797-1883) was among the most effective US abolitionists of the 19th century.

There are collectors, and then there is Eddi Van Auken (1946-2024). She liked Old Master prints, German papier-mâché botanical models, wooden artist’s models, silver, weathervanes and kitchenalia.

Among the top lots on the first day of a recent sale at Brunk Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Asheville, North Carolina, was a typical Federal mahogany bracket clock.

Two highlights from the autumn Asia Week sales in the US appeared in New York at Freeman’s (28% buyer’s premium) and in Dallas at Heritage Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

Two Continental Old Master drawings hammered for five-figure sums on subsequent days at two different US auction houses.

The September 25 Boston Collects sale at the Massachusetts branch of Doyle (28% buyer’s premium) included items deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, for the benefit of its collection.

Eugene de Blaas (1843-1931) made his reputation painting genre scenes that captured beautiful young women chatting, flirting and working in his native Italy.

During a summer walk-through of a home in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, Frank Kaminski saw something that compelled his attention. Emerging from beneath a pile of boxes and blankets was a highly detailed carved paw foot.

The Cybis company, founded in 1940 in Astoria, New York, by Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957) and his wife Marja (1905-58) produced porcelain figures for almost 80 years before it closed in 2019. Among its best-known models is a chess set.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including The Charleston Museum acquiring a 1711 silver chalice