Auctions

Whether it was holding live sales in the garden or in the front room – or with a parrot for company – auctioneers who were determined that the show must go on found a way to make it happen during the early weeks of the first lockdown (see photos).

A rare complete copy of a famous Arabic medical text sold for £30,000 in a sale of manuscripts and other works on paper from the Islamic and Near Eastern worlds.

Poster auction in New York includes fine examples of British Art Deco rail travel designs

Model produced for pilgrims and tourists to Jerusalem in mind is a highlight as specialist sales launch

Quaintly titled book about Great Yarmouth was one of the varied attractions in Cambridge auction.

A new auction firm has launched in the market town of Leominster in Herefordshire.

Clothes, letters and photographs of the last queen of Madagascar are to return home after the Madagascan government bought the collection at a south London auction.

The latest Specialist Collectors’ Sale at Cuttlestones in Wolverhampton included a little bit of 20th century ceramics history.

The Anschluss of 1938 between Nazi Germany and Austria had a devastating effect on Vienna’s Jewish population.

This pair of life-size bronze busts depict the tragic young figures Publius Septimus Geta, son of emperor Septimus Severus, and his sister-in-law Plautilla.

One of the last Georges de la Tour (1593-1652) paintings in private hands was sold by Cologne auction house Lempertz on December 8.

A propellor hauled up by a fisherman proved to have an important link to Dambusters leader Guy Gibson and is now coming up at auction, as ATG reports in a wider look at the militaria market

A selection of nine upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK and Ireland.

Sixteenth century book-maker’s creativity makes maths and astronomy more accessible

This original oil painting of a California grey squirrel is by John Woodhouse Audubon, younger son of John James Audubon of Birds of America fame.

Two-sided picture now heading to Dijon museum after being given definite attribution