Auctions

For over 300 years, 12 generations of the Liechti family in the northern Swiss town of Winterthur built clocks.

Neumeister (25% buyer’s premium), a stalwart of the German auction market, held its last auction in Munich this summer.

Portrait miniatures by the renowned British artist face a different and difficult modern mindset

In retrospect, it was a blessing for Victor-Gabriel Gilbert (1847-1935) that his parents did not have the money to finance his training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

The auction titled The Collection of a Florida Bibliophile held at Doyle (28% buyer’s premium) included a collection of 18th century peepshows and an original oak viewing box.

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

Film scholars have described Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon as “the greatest movie never made”.

Toy specialist Lankes (25% buyer’s premium) in the small Bavarian town of Döhlau could harvest a bumper crop of good results during its sale of July 20-24.

A rare Edwardian silver and enamel cigarette case was the unexpected highlight of a timed online sale held by Bushey Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Hertfordshire.

Lots from the extraordinary collection constructed by the McAlpines come to auction in Berkshire

Hargesheimer (25% buyer’s premium) in Düsseldorf devoted an auction to the sale of 61 works of art from the collection of a couple from Wiesbaden who had spent many decades amassing sculptures and old master paintings.

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

A recent sale at Moore Allen & Innocent (21% buyer’s premium) in Cirencester included a massive Victorian silver tray or salver by the prominent silversmith Edward Kerr Read (London 1873).

Sale of 14th amendment document from 1867 coincides with Supreme Court case, happily for vendor

Scheublein (27% buyer’s premium) offered 1000 lots from the collection of a branch of the Bavarian royal family this summer.

Bidders from as far afield as Saudi Arabia vied for an ancient Egyptian bronze of the deity Osiris at Kunst & Kuriosa (21% buyer’s premium) in Heidelberg.