Rather than the rich and famous it was this photograph of three haggard workers that caught the eye in a Cincinnati saleroom.

Our selection of lots from 15 upcoming UK and Irish auctions

Anyone sitting through a slideshow of images from an extraordinary photograph collection of Indian, south-east Asian, and Middle Eastern subjects sold in a US auction could be there for a long time.

Leica cameras of rather different dimensions to normal clicked into action at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

Recent advertising highlights from UK sales and an Italian auction

An early version of virtual reality, the Victorian craze of stereoscopes is firmly in focus this summer

A Cornish saleroom offered over 300 enamel signs, advertising memorabilia, pump globes, vehicle mascots and collectables from a single-owner collection.

This form of drinking vessel, with handles and lobed edges to the top of the bowl, would have been passed around the table.

Denis Pellerin, co-curator of the Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy (BMAS) and co-curator of the upcoming Watts Gallery exhibition, tells ATG about the collection

Looking more like a sale brochure when unopened, the embossed front cover shown below in fact conceals a rare 1906 stereoscopic viewer.

Just as stereoscope images became a Victorian collecting craze, another notable photographic fad of the era was the carte de visite

Our selection of eight lots from upcoming UK auctions.

Shown here is a copy in Latin of the 'Quirtii Horatii Flacci' opera, 1823, presented by Charles Dickens to his Latin tutor Richard Shiers (mentioned in a book titled 'The Life of Charles Dickens', p45).

Our selection of 13 lots from upcoming UK auctions

Almanacs became hugely popular as printing made them widely accessible

Tintin creator Hergé (1907-33) must have taken a shine to a Mr TL Ward, judging by a lot sold at an East Yorkshire auction.