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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

When bad weather made the Upton Park pitch unfit for play on Saturday, January 17, 1959, it must have seemed fairly unremarkable.

Two Cartier brooches commissioned by Sir Stephen Courtauld for his wife have gone on display at Eltham Palace, eight months after they were sold at auction by Dreweatts in Newbury.

An atypical entry to the March 4-9 sale at the Harwich antiquities specialist TimeLine is this gold medal struck in Philadelphia following the sinking of American steamship Casper, on December 23, 1928.

Edward Curtis is famed for his photographs documenting the disappearing world of Native Americans

Two excellent examples of the highest British awards for courage are coming up in the same London auction on March 11.

A British airborne forces smock offered in the C&T (22% buyer’s premium) February 12-13 auction told its own tale thanks to a remarkable discovery concealed within.

A rare visitor to the auction room came in the form of this pocket-sized Victorian sand picture book.

Lieutenant General John Burgoyne (1722-92) was put in command of the British forces in Canada in 1777 after outlining the shortcomings of his own commanding officer.

Although much less well known than many ‘last stands’, medals for the Wilson’s Patrol in 1893 are prized by collectors

Cellars and attics at famous Norfolk estate are cleared out as part of ‘housework’ to allow guided tours

Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805-71) began to develop the very first mystery clocks in c.1830.

De’ Conti and Tintoretto works shine as part of the Old Master sales in New York

A first edition copy of a book documenting the sinking of a ship by a sperm whale in 1820 went under the hammer at Potter & Potter (25% buyer’s premium).

John Smart (1838-99) was one of the first artists to focus on golf courses themselves rather than the actual players.

A series of British portraits offered across two different Dreweatts (26/25% buyer’s premium) sales got the new year off to a good start at the Newbury saleroom.

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Victorian arts journal was first to be illustrated with a photograph to promote Fox Talbot book