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Guided at $60,000-80,000, a Yixing stoneware ‘aubergine’ cup was the breakout star of Freeman’s Hindman (26% buyer’s premium) Asian Works of Art sale in New York, held during the Spring 2025 Asia Week.

Series of three sales at Stair followed four ‘tough act to follow’ auctions held at Sotheby’s also in the US

All too often kind words are expressed about someone only when one learns of their sad demise.

With golfers looking forward to the US Open in June and the British Open in July, as well as the Wimbledon Tennis Championships running for two weeks from June 30, these sports are about to hit the headlines.

One-off football ‘super cup’ style ties are nothing new, as a very much in demand programme offered at Telford saleroom Mullock Jones (20.5% buyer’s premium) demonstrated.

Some ‘prisoner of war’ productions are now thought to have been made by skilled craftsmen

The earliest-known painted work by the Indian sculptor Ganpatrao Mhatre (1879-1947) drew international interest at Chiswick Auctions (26% buyer’s premium).

Now celebrating on-the-field success thanks to a 1-0 victory against Manchester United in the Europa League final on May 21, Spurs also came top in the saleroom seven days earlier.

It is perhaps fitting that the shirt belonging to a player who scored two goals successively in the quarter, semi final and final of the 1975 FA Cup would double its top estimate at Stacey’s (25% buyer’s premium) on April 28.

Important mathematical work by young German genius Gauss makes a rare appearance at auction

PBA Galleries (25% buyer’s premium) cataloguer Bill Taylor discovered a poster for a 'Jazz Poetry Trio' event in Greenwich Village in a group of flyers relating to the San Francisco poet Philip Lamantia (1927-2005).

Ohio auction specialist Bridget McWilliams was on site at a Cleveland estate when a pair of tarnished metal centrepieces with fanciful curlicued handles caught her eye.

Vanessa Bell submitted two designs for the 1934 Modern Art for the Table exhibition at Harrods.

The fierce football rivalry between the Sky Blues and Red Devils led to a competition not on the pitch but on the rostrum thanks to the Graham Budd (24% buyer’s premium) two-day sale dubbed An Auction of Two Halves.

You’ve got your head around the changes, but how can you nail down the detail?

Latest sales suggest a wider collector base targeting history and topography

Firm specialising in Mid-century items can now offer two floors of furniture and interiors browsing

Archives Fine Books was established in 1985, but since 2008 has been the baby of owners Hamish Alcorn and Dawn Albinger (Dawn is interviewed here).

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Terence Cuneo’s 'Giants Refreshed' poster for the LNER showing Pacific steam locomotives 'In the Doncaster Locomotive Works' is a well-known work.