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The sale at Minster Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Leominster on November 24 included a copy of an important work on neoclassical interiors.

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

Found in a cigar box during an attic clearance and taken to Exeter auction house Bearnes, Hampton & Littlewood (25% buyer’s premium), seven framed daguerreotypes in poor condition provided one of the better sleepers of the year on November 22-23.

Found by head of department Catriona Smith in a box of mixed jewellery, this rare 16th or 17th century gold ‘toadstone’ ring came for sale at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium).

The philanthropist, retired businessman and one-time Olympian bobsledder for Canada, Sir Christopher Ondaatje, chose a good time to sell a painting depicting a young 19th century black woman.

Anthony Bernbaum runs The Peartree Collection specialising in Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau silver.

Terracotta Virgin and Child joined a handful of other known works after 2010 attribution

This youthful work by Edouard Manet (1832-83) was the top-seller in the Modern and Contemporary auction at Tajan (26/21/14% buyer’s premium) in Paris.

Over 17,000 visitors including representatives from French and foreign museums, major collectors and decorators attended the first staging of the newly merged fair Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a newly appointed global managing director for TEFAF.

Commissioned by the 'Illustrated London Times' to document the construction of the mighty Great Eastern, the young photographer Robert Howlett (1831-58) took some of the most famous images of ship’s designer Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59).

Group of works by the uncle and nephew attracts significant Indian bidder interest

Illuminated manuscript c.1470 is a highlight in Gloucestershire saleroom

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

A portrait of art dealer Algernon Moses Marsden (1847-1920) by Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902) has been purchased for the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery with funding from descendants of the sitter.

On Friday, December 9, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1801.13 / €1697.02 / £1464.34

Portrait now firmly credited to a Northern Renaissance master stars in Old Masters show

The year ended on a sombre note: after a near unbroken 40-year run of antiques fairs at Alexandra Palace in north London, the much-loved fair will no longer be held at this most special of venues.

This oil on canvas of 'Royal Dorset Yawl at the Needles' is the work of Charles Gregory (1849-1920) and is included in a single-owner collection on offer at John Mitchell Fine Paintings.

I read in ATG Letters Nos 2564 and 2560 about the problem relating to VAT calculation from eBay.