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Two of the best-selling literary lots in a New York sale were copies of Jane Austen novels.

Lockdown restrictions mean the normal January and February international focus on US auctions and dealer events will be rather different in 2021, but plenty of opportunities are still on offer to buy art and antiques

The collection of Hester Diamond, a New York art dealer, interior designer and art collector, is one of the designated single-owner offerings in Sotheby’s Masters Week series.

A selection of period and vintage jewellery lots for sale in January, February and March.

Two auctions devoted to drawings and works on paper, one single-owner, one mixed-owner, form part of Sotheby’s Master Week sales, both staged on January 27.

Angela Short (previously Linstead), the well-known Tunbridge Wells dealer, passed away peacefully on December 5 aged 89.

An auctioneer has put his own name above the door after working for more than three decades in the same Winchester saleroom.

On Friday, January 15, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1853.85 / €1530.25 / £1357.57

Mounted in an autograph book that was compiled from 1937 onwards by Miss Joyce Cartmell, a sketch of Christopher Robin was a highlight of a Yorkshire sale.

There were, inevitably, a few copies of Charles Dickens’ much-loved tale, 'A Christmas Carol', on offer at auction as the big day approached.

“It was the first time I found myself in front of a glacier, alone in the infinite silence and solitude of the snow mountain, surrounded by the overwhelming majesty of nature…”

Reappearing in the same saleroom after a six-year interval, a landscape by Edmund Morison Wimperis (1835-1900) attracted attention at Halls (20% buyer’s premium) of Shrewsbury.

Christie’s Old Master and British drawings sale will take place as an online auction from January 14-28.

Cottone Auctions is holding a sale of Antiques and Design in Geneseo, New York, on January 21.

This Royal Doulton Art Nouveau twin-handled vase will be offered in the January 26-27 Collectors Auction at Lion and Unicorn of Hollywood, Florida.

The flagship event of Sotheby’s Masters Week sale series is the January 28 Master Paintings and Sculpture auction. Its highlight entries are Botticelli’s 'Portrait of a young man holding a roundel' (estimate in excess of $80m) and Rembrandt’s 'Abraham and the Angels' guided at $20m-30m.

Carl Moll (1861-1945) was one of the founding members of the Vienna Secession movement. On February 23 in its sale of European Art and Old Masters, Freeman’s of Philadelphia will offer a painting by him that has been in the same family since it was acquired in Germany in the early 1920s.

The 650-lot auction at Quinn’s Auction Galleries in Falls Church, Virginia, on January 30 features items from several local properties.

David was a well-known dealer in the antique ceramic world. He exhibited at the second ever Antiques for Everyone at the Birmingham NEC and every one after until his retirement. He became a vetter and remained so until his last fair.

Covid-19 has played havoc with the jewellery fairs and auction calendar but it has done little to dull the appetite for quality antique and vintage pieces.