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Mother-and-daughter team start new event in Ireland with hopes for several others across the island

The first American Civil War playset produced by Marx came in 1958 but in 1961 a real blockbuster version appeared: the Giant Blue and Gray Battle Set.

Eminent artist stepped aside once he saw the monumental figure by younger colleague Maillol

Classical Chinese furniture deaccessioned from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts produced some sensational results at a dedicated Asian Art sale held by Brunk Auctions (23% buyer’s premium) in Asheville, North Carolina on October 19.

This Roman marble bust hammered for $47,500 (£39,100) against an estimate of $2000-3000 at Wiederseim Associates (25% buyer’s premium) in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania on October 20.

Dispersal of renowned collection launches with the first auctions including Aldine ‘crown jewels’

In the Mid-century market, the devil is in the detail.

An ancient Egyptian sculptural fragment was the most eagerly contested lot in Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ (20% buyer’s premium) Autumn Majestic sale on November 10-12.

In September 2020, Soulis Auctions knocked down record prices at a sale of the Richard and Valerie Tucker collection of carnival shooting gallery targets.

Material Culture, Philadelphia specialists in ethnographic art, is selling the Russell S Fling collection of rugs and textiles on December 4.

Works by the Doulton dominate the two-day British Ceramics and Pottery Auction at Lion and Unicorn in Hollywood, Florida.

Line Vautrin (1913-97) began her career selling her cast metal jewellery door-to-door.

Raymond Templier (1891-1968) came from a traditional Parisian jewellery family but became one of a small group of designers dubbed ‘bijoutiers-artistes’ or artist jewellers.

On November 1, Rago and Toomey & Co in Lambertville, New Jersey sold property from the “duke and duchess of the North American antiques world”, Ralph and Terry Kovel. In the US, the Kovels are renowned as authors and experts who published over 100 books on collecting.

Spanning two sessions at Leitz Photographica in Vienna on November 24-25 are consignments from the personal collection of the late Yul Brynner (1920-1985) via his daughter Victoria.

The first day of the Annual Thanksgiving Auction at Kaminski Auctions in Beverly, Massachusetts on November 25-26 is devoted to the collection of Robert ‘Bob’ Eigelberger.

Top prices set for majolica by the French Massier factory at auction in Belgium

A portrait miniature previously bought on eBay has been knocked down at an Australian auction for 30-times more than the original price.

A good crop of top-end Impressionist and Modern pictures lifted the latest flagship series of auctions in New York.

Lynn Chadwick’s (1914-2003) figure sculptures of the 1960s-80s consist largely of angular male and female couples – standing, sitting, walking or lying together.