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Pictured here is one of two very successful lots relating to the career of Houdini that were sold in a Chicago auction.

A good number of lots offered at Great Western Auctions (24% buyer’s premium) on June 17-18 demonstrated the demand that can emerge for works on paper pitched at attractive levels.

The queen’s menacing message to Protestant courtiers makes an auction appearance

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.

Thomas Sandby’s (1721-98) architectural drawings are significant part of the artist’s oeuvre.

An ancient Egyptian cartonnage Mummy mask was the top-selling lot in an auction of Antiquities held by Hindman (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) in Chicago.

Butterscotch in New York is holding its summer estates auction on July 17.

You reported on the front page of the ATG (No 2550) that Bonhams has added another auction house to its expanding stable.

BRAFA’s new Expo base hailed as a success as Belgian fair returns to face-to-face business

Ex-industrial premises have been brought back by firms relying on heritage interest

The US, UK, EU and other countries have directed a slew of sanctions and restrictive measures at Russia which have seen the closure, suspension or quietening down of operations in Russia by international banks and companies, including some major international auction houses.

Viewing the superb image, captured on video (ATG No 2550), one can almost hear Tom Holland shout, “Yesss!”, in abandoned ecstasy, on securing for £3500 his dinosaur – specifically, a Psittacosaurus skeleton – sold at Woolley & Wallis last month.

On Friday, July 8, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1737.05 / €1715.52 / £1454.08

Offered as part of a New York sale held by Swann (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) were the two imaginative aerial views reproduced here.

Among the 20th century works on paper generating demand at regional sales in the last few months was a Keith Vaughan (1912-77) study of a group of bathers.

An expert view on how post-Ukraine invasion restrictions are giving the art market plenty to think about

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

For collectors on a budget, works on paper can provide a more accessible route to acquiring works by key artists.

Single-owner group offers 007 toys and gadgets mainly from the Sean Connery era

This mid-20th century illusionist apparatus will feature in Potter & Potter’s latest Magic sale when it auctions the lifetime collection of Jim Deloach in Chicago on July 16.