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Our pick of 12 monthly highlights sold at auction across 2020

A gap in many collections of 1960s James Bond posters often involves rarities to promote On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) starring George Lazenby.

Our regular listing of British and Irish book auctions.

A 1930s kilim hand-made in the Antalya region is offered for £2500 at Phil Taylor’s Cool Stuff’s New Year exhibition of Turkish rugs and pottery.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of stolen gold pocket watch taken from a gallery in Camden Passage, Islington, London.

Whether it was holding live sales in the garden or in the front room – or with a parrot for company – auctioneers who were determined that the show must go on found a way to make it happen during the early weeks of the first lockdown (see photos).

A rare complete copy of a famous Arabic medical text sold for £30,000 in a sale of manuscripts and other works on paper from the Islamic and Near Eastern worlds.

Poster auction in New York includes fine examples of British Art Deco rail travel designs

Model produced for pilgrims and tourists to Jerusalem in mind is a highlight as specialist sales launch

Quaintly titled book about Great Yarmouth was one of the varied attractions in Cambridge auction.

A bonkers year like no other did nevertheless have its highlights as the trade battled back

It’s time to pit your art and antiques brains against the ATG giant prize crossword.

A spate of thefts from central London shops has put the antiquarian book trade on high alert.

A new auction firm has launched in the market town of Leominster in Herefordshire.

Clothes, letters and photographs of the last queen of Madagascar are to return home after the Madagascan government bought the collection at a south London auction.

The latest Specialist Collectors’ Sale at Cuttlestones in Wolverhampton included a little bit of 20th century ceramics history.

The Anschluss of 1938 between Nazi Germany and Austria had a devastating effect on Vienna’s Jewish population.

This pair of life-size bronze busts depict the tragic young figures Publius Septimus Geta, son of emperor Septimus Severus, and his sister-in-law Plautilla.

One of the last Georges de la Tour (1593-1652) paintings in private hands was sold by Cologne auction house Lempertz on December 8.

A group of four Roman glass vessels dating from the late 1st to 3rd century AD are offered at prices ranging from £500-2000 in Claire Brown Art’s catalogue Inspiration.