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Ebay is looking at changing its traditional auction model by trialling ‘soft close’ bidding.

A 16th century Renaissance astronomical table clock was among the stand-out lots at Dreweatts recent clocks sale.

Works from the collection of British fashion magnate Peter Simon, the founder of the Monsoon fashion chain, could set a house record for a single-owner collection sold in London when they appear at Christie’s in October.

New York saleroom Auctions at Showplace is offering a well-documented Turner watercolour on October 8.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including highlights from the Allan and Sondra Gotlieb collection being exhibited at Kelmscott House in Hammersmith ahead of an auction at Kinghams.

An unconventional creator who influenced Mondrian finally gets her moment in the limelight with a new London show.

Coinex returns to Grosvenor Square this month with 50 exhibitors and a raft of auctions.

Eminent Georgian instrument maker George Adams (c.1709-72) first described his ‘variable’ microscope in 1771 in the fourth edition of his Micrographia Illastrata.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

Portland Gallery of St James’s, London, holds an exhibition of all its artists to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

Cartier debuted the Coccinelle ladybug brooch in 1935, and the design – a whimsical and colourful symbol of good fortune – was popular into the 1940s.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Such messages from second-class passengers on the liner are some of the rarest to be offered at auction