Auctions

John Cumming (1930-2008) is regarded as one of the greatest players in Heart of Midlothian FC’s history.

Top-lot honours in a summer sale of European furniture and decorative arts at Freeman’s (28% buyer’s premium) in Chicago went to a 1903 showpiece Martelé silver punch bowl by Gorham.

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

How an online-only auction house is taking its biggest consignment to a global audience.

An oversize 1881 albumen photograph of Thomas Hill’s painting 'The Last Spike', depicting the instant of the creation of the first continental railroad in the US, rolled to a five-figure sum at Freeman’s (28% buyer’s premium) in Chicago.

Auctioneer and valuer Colin Young is celebrating a 40-year career in auctioneering in Lincolnshire this month.

'Rumsinterior', a signed, undated oil on canvas by Swiss-born Danish artist Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926), hammered for $24,000 (£17,900) at Stair (31% 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

A small landscape by Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944) depicting a scene near Lyme Regis in Dorset was among the lots attracting interest at the sale of the Simon Hilton collection at Sworders (27% buyer’s premium).

Described as a “pair of Chinese porcelain candlesticks. Late 19th century” and bearing the modest guide of $600-800, a pair of iron red-decorated holy water vessels hammered for $85,000 (£63,375) at Tremont Auctions (19% buyer’s premium).

The latest sale of Art Nouveau and Art Deco at Rago (28% buyer’s premium) in Lambertville, New Jersey yielded impressive results, totalling $953,938 (£781,450), selling 97% by lot and 165% by value.

Collotype portfolios by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) ranked first and second in a Prints & Multiples sale at Toomey & Co (28% buyer’s premium) in Chicago.

It was a long, long summer of football – both in terms of the World Cup and the auctions that ran alongside the exhausting, extended extravaganza with a deeply disappointing final game.

Thomas Annan’s Photographs of The Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow is the earliest and most famous photographic record of the city’s slums.

Full set of seasonal series from the 1840s stars as Californian collection of literature comes for sale in US

Our selection of lots from 12 upcoming auctions

It is not often that a rugby shirt survives for almost a century.

Sport specialist auction house offers collections from trailblazing female player and renowned umpire

George Washington portrait was thought to be a copy of Gilbert Stuart work by Canton artist Foeiqua