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A signed memorandum letter sent by Nelson from HMS Victory to one of his captains sold for a mid-estimate £3200 at a recent TW Gaze (18% buyer’s premium) auction in Diss in Norfolk.

A Zulu War medal awarded to a Victorian soldier severely wounded while fighting in the hospital building at Rorke’s Drift has been bought at auction – by a doctor.

Fifteen upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.

On Friday, June 19, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1728.55 / €1540.99 / £1392.17.

The two most expensive lots in an online London books sale of just 100 lots could hardly have been more different.

This Danish silver, amber and agate brooch from c.1915 by Georg Jensen will feature in the art and design sale to be held by Freeman’s of Philadelphia on June 26.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period June 11-17, 2020. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

The 80th anniversary of Operation Dynamo, aka the Dunkirk evacuation in May-June 1940, has been in the headlines recently. However, less well known is the fate of the British 51st Highland Division almost 100 miles further along the French coast.

Harry Potter first deemed too scruffy by a public library brings a spellbinding result

Unofficial theme of event this year reflects a few months cooped up at home

We enjoy reading letters sent to us by our readers both via email and more traditional methods.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the sale of a letter by Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin in Paris.

The move towards online auctions during the lockdown has not led to the disappearance of intense bidding battles, as witnessed with a number of works at the Daniel Katz auction (see main report) and earlier at the Rafael Valls sale (see ATG No 2440).

MADAM – With the list of auctions increasing in every issue, it gives me hope that normality is on the way and soon we should be acting as normal albeit online for a while instead of bidding in person at these auctions.

The weighty three-dimensional forms for which Henry Moore (1898-1986) is best known are the subject of his 1940s lithograph, Sculptural Objects, offered in an exhibition at Eames Fine Art.

US auction house Skinner (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) reported record levels of participation at its latest American & European Works of Art sale.

Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Maine will be holding a two-day weekend auction of more than 1000 lots on July 18-19.

MADAM – Re: the crayon drawing of Churchill.

An American collector bought this original Second World War RAF ensign flag at a recent East Bristol Auctions (18% buyer’s premium).

Our regular listing of books and works on paper auctions the UK and Ireland.