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Potter & Potter in Chicago will sell more items from the collection of magician Ricky Jay on February 25.

This 4ft 7in (1.4m) Victorian painted mahogany shop display sign promotes the merits of guns by Holland & Holland.

An important George II console table emerged for sale at The Auction Room London on January 31.

A 15th century first edition of a pioneering work by Johannes Gallensis surfaced at auction late last month.

The completion of the US transcontinental railroad in 1869 was the marvel of its age.

Clock formed as memorial to Napoleonic general stars among contents of d’Estaing family home

Extraordinary collection generates £64,000 bid for collaborative works by the playwright and poet

Lot sold for multiple-estimate sum in Cumbrian sale relates to a notorious election in Northumberland

The Shanghai Jubilee Medal was instituted in 1893 to mark the 50th anniversary of the first British consul created after the Treaty of Nanking in 1843.

A group of watercolours from the collection of the renowned botanist, entomologist William Curtis (1746-99), drew attention in a Surrey sale.

Included in Potter & Potter’s latest sale of Books and Manuscripts is a rare first edition limited issue of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest.

Wife describes how collector husband Chris Hancock’s latest artworks had to fight for space in a family home

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

Works by the married artists both feature in Philadelphia saleroom Freeman's

This brass and iron ecclesiastic chandelier or corona lucis is by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52), the most famous name in the Gothic Revival.

The market for ‘after’ or ‘attributed to’ works is often rather unpredictable. While some works will inevitably fall flat at auction, others sometimes take off.