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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.

On Friday, May 13, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1824.20 / €1758.28 / £1497.30

Can you tell your foxing from your deckle edge? Or quire from collation? Here is a handy guide to some of the terms used in the books and works on paper collecting field.

Two upcoming lots at US book auctions.

Exhibition devoted to skilled ‘old-fashioned’ painter reveals a particular interest in horses

Event launched at end of last year a goal kick away from the stadium is gaining many fans

Try original advertising artwork if you want to capture the atmosphere of an era.

In what was the auction house’s most successful sale ever in financial terms, and one that boasted a 97% selling rate, a March 4 sale at Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) was led at $65,000 (£49,240) by a 'Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen’s Captivity from the Time of his Being Taken by the British, near Montreal… in 1775, to the Time of his Exchange…in May 1778'.

A selection of 14 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK and overseas.

Three upcoming UK book auctions

Crowds descend on first event under new ownership in Welsh town

Dealer Tim Bryars previews this year’s London Map Fair with an eye on current collecting trends

Though it is the pineapple that is most prominent, it is the assortment of creatures that flutter around, climb or emerge from its leaves that are the principal attraction of this coloured plate, below.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news that Ronati has partnered with LAPADA on its 2022 marketplace guide.

Works offered in Essex saleroom belonged to ‘capable, colourful and forceful’ professor

If social media makes you feel like Big Brother is watching you, and if truth occasionally feels stranger than fiction, then like many bibliophiles you might be exploring books that suggest models for society and the role of the individual.

The six lots described here are drawn from a hugely successful sale of comics and comic art held in Dallas by Heritage (20% buyer’s premium) over four days, from April 7-10.

This Victorian ‘Language of Flowers’ fan was published by Robert Canton c.1875 and is on offer at The Ephemera Society Summer Fair.

Typically, the work of studio potter Joanna Constantinidis (1927-2000), for nearly 40 years a lecturer in ceramics at Chelmsford Technical College and School of Art, has tended to occupy the second tier of the burgeoning contemporary ceramics market.

But Brexit red tape is the talk of the trade as favourite fair returns to Old Town Hall