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Looking more like a sale brochure when unopened, the embossed front cover shown below in fact conceals a rare 1906 stereoscopic viewer.

Victorian and Edwardian pottery butcher’s slabs made to display lard, butter and margarine are relatively frequent visitors to UK salerooms.

Like his father of the same name, Thomas Miles Richardson Jnr (1813-90) began his career in Newcastle but he moved to London in 1846.

Among the sales at 'An Eye into the Ancient Past', the collaborative exhibition from Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch and Claire Brown Art, was this attic black-figure amphora, dated to 500BC.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions held on thesaleroom.com

Anyone sitting through a slideshow of images from an extraordinary photograph collection of Indian, south-east Asian, and Middle Eastern subjects sold in a US auction could be there for a long time.

Rare works on offer in Swiss saleroom were by artist most familiar for his Fauvist fine art creations

Previously unrecorded view by the Italian scenic painter now joins six others of Naples already known

Collecting genre is being boosted by fresh bidders with deep pockets who work in the technology sector

An early 17th century pen and ink drawing of Euterpe, the muse of lyrical music, caused the biggest surprise at Karl & Faber (27% buyer’s premium).

Leica cameras of rather different dimensions to normal clicked into action at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

A group of drawings which helped develop the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have been temporarily blocked from export in the hope a UK buyer can step in.

African-American artists and makers from the Deep South of the US are the focus for The Gallery of Everything’s summer show.

Recent sales of Asian art achieved some memorable prices, paid not surprisingly by Asian buyers.

Just as stereoscope images became a Victorian collecting craze, another notable photographic fad of the era was the carte de visite

A canvas by the Romantic painter Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) went for many times the guide at Kinsky (28% buyer’s premium) in Vienna.