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When the (Louis) Marx toy company produced a friction-drive model Batmobile in the 1960s the plastic car that resulted was really a model of the 1951 General Motors Le Sabre concept show car designed by Harley Earl.

The first lot in Pook & Pook’s (25% buyer’s premium) May 4-5 sale was also the top result. And if you follow the toy boat market, it was also strangely familiar.

It is not just Star Wars figures or film posters bringing the big bucks.

Widely varying plans outlining a faraway harbour and a slice of rural Yorkshire bring saleroom surprises

The owners of an antiques centre in a large leisure and shopping village near Stowmarket in Suffolk are opening a second branch nearby just two years after the first one welcomed its first buyers.

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.

Asian Art in London’s summer edition returns this year for its second outing.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Combining scholarly, decorative and evocative appeal, cameos and intaglios are a highly collectable area of the antiquities market.

A stellar collection of rare Japanese robots and space toys featured in the Milestone (20% buyer’s premium) sale in Willoughby, Ohio.

Our selection of 13 upcoming auction lots

New organiser reveals strong trade interest and visitor pre-bookings for the eagerly awaited event

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a rare 17th century double portrait saved for the nation.

A new antiques centre has opened in a former Baptist chapel in Newark.

The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) is weighing up selling its investment property in London.

A medal awarded to Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood artist William Holman-Hunt (1827- 1910) has been purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from dealer Tregeagle Fine Art.

The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) has launched a new two-day premier book fair to take place in Preston this summer.

English architect and designer Owen Jones (1809-74) was no stranger to large decorative projects when he was hired to design the furniture and interiors for No 16 Carlton House Terrace in St James’s.

While the achievement of Manchester City players in winning three titles in consecutive seasons – with a treble – is certainly admirable, spare a thought for Tom Wilson, a footballer of a much earlier era.