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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.

Most watercolours by Violet Esther Drury Clutterbuck (1869-1960) tend to fetch a few hundred pounds or less at auction.

Sections catering to primary market Contemporary art are launching at the British Art Fair and the Decorative Fair.

The autumn season will bring a number of English Golden Age clocks by top makers to auction.

Heritage is holding a Beatles memorabilia sale in Dallas on September 24.

Hemswell Antique Centres is now completely full with 400 dealers trading out of the four centres on the Hemswell Cliff site in Lincolnshire.

I am a lifelong Henry Scott Tuke historian and the buyer of the chalice featured in ATG No 2558.

Regarding your request for memories of HM The Queen, I wanted to bring to your attention this photo published on the front page of ATG in March 1988.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the search for a UK buyer for a rare conjoined roundel manuscript given by the Archbishop of Canterbury to Elizabeth I.

Doubling its mid-estimate to sell at £50,000, one of the top lots in a sale of September 7 was Paulo Forlani’s Il Disegno del discoperto della nova Franza…

A 1731 panorama of York listing 45 places of interest is a highlight at the Northern Antiques Fair.

International trade converge at the Palazzo Corsini on the banks of the Arno for BIAF.

Jennifer Titmuss of Corky Events, who runs monthly antiques markets in St Albans and on Chiswick High Road, is on the move again as she launches a market in the E17 London Borough of Walthamstow with the first on Sunday, September 25.

This camera script produced for the ‘Waldorf Salad’ episode from the second series of Fawlty Towers was offered by East Bristol Auctions (19% buyer’s premium) in a timed online sale that ended on August 23,

I write concerning eBay’s practice of charging the incorrect import duty of 20% on some items that are over 100 years old; UK law is 5%.

Proving that not all clocks need to sell for thousands to attract interest, this 19th century circular mantel clock sold at Stamford Auction Rooms (20% buyer’s premium) in Lincolnshire for £500 with an estimate of £50-£80.

In 1902 the author Booker T Washington sent a typed and handwritten letter to the Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie regarding his recently published work.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.

Neil Honor of Catesbys specialises in Modern British and contemporary paintings, prints, sculpture and ceramics, mixed with Danish furniture and artisan home goods.

Woody Auctions in Kansas is selling the collection of Van and Karen Turner from Oklahoma on September 24.