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As a reminder that merchandise is nothing new, take a look at this board game offered at North Yorkshire saleroom Tennants (24% buyer’s premium).

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.

Olympia Auctions is holding a timed online sale that starts to end on October 20 titled Looking Back at John Osborne: Pictures and Possessions from his Estate, The Hurst, Shropshire.

The maker was not indicated in the cataloguing but a “late 19th/early 20th century dapple grey rocking horse, with leather tack” galloped away from a £200-300 estimate.

Brexit, global conflicts and climate change have served shipping companies with a series of tricky problems. ATG reports on how they are adapting

It may be a “small” collection according to Daniel Agnew, but the array of teddy bears coming up at Special Auction Services on December 3 is also “perfectly curated” and “by far the finest and most exciting collection of teddy bears ever to come to auction”.

An Adelaide Huret bisque shoulder head fashion doll with accessories hammered for £16,000 at Cheffins’ (25% buyer’s premium) teddy dolls and bears timed online sale on September 5, four times the high estimate.

Despite his pioneering aesthetic, many of Christopher Dresser’s designs were too complex and costly to be easily mass-produced.

ATG asked three shippers what was the most unusual items they were asked to transport

The Heyde Ernest Shackleton 1908 Antarctic Exploration Set is one of the rarest and sought-after productions from the German toy maker.

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

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.

Michael Ramsey (1904-88) who served as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury from 1961-74, curated his own personal visitor book that tracked his career from 1942-87.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of auction house Fellows selling the collection from Joseph Bonnar Jewellers in Edinburgh

Views of Exmoor form a notable niche in the market for works by Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959).

Portraits consigned from the family of two artists feature intriguing stories of those depicted

Despite the catalogue note “would benefit from sympathetic restoration to exterior”, the overall appeal of a rare 19th century folk art dolls’ diorama of a kitchen was enough to take the hammer price to £7000.

Our selection of lots from 12 upcoming auctions

Our selection of lots from five sales taking place in Germany this season

An early clockwork model wheeled into a Buckinghamshire saleroom to get bidders into gear for an estimate-busting result