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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.

Our selection of lots from seven upcoming auctions

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab is perhaps the most notorious of all mid-century toys.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of a star-studded coming to auction

US bidders show great appetite for early 20th century display slabs hailing from the UK

A pair of 7in (17cm) Sèvres porcelain bottle coolers (seau à bouteille) sold for £6000 as part of Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) recent Country House Sale.

When the Folk Art dealer Robert Young first met Tif Hunter over 30 years ago, he was instantly drawn to the photographer’s work.

The owner of an antiques shop in a seaside town on Northern Ireland’s north coast is retiring next year and closing her business in May after nearly 50 years in the trade.

London jeweller Wartski has the perfect gift for Halloween: a late 17th century pendant fashioned from a lizard’s leg.

This English mahogany hall bench dating from the first quarter of the 19th century sailed well above estimate at a sale in New Milford, Connecticut.

The Scottish sculptor William Brodie (1825-81) began his working life as a plumber’s apprentice in Aberdeen.