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A copy of 'The Island of Adventure' offered in a Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) sale of June 19-20 sold for £360 – just £10 short of the auction record set for a copy it had offered back in 2006.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

One the most productive Bauhaus furniture designers was the Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer (1902-81). From 1925-28 he was in charge of the so-called interior workshop at the design school.

Well-known dealers Ruth and Paul Thurman were the long-term organisers of Field Dog Fairs, running antiques and collectors’ events across the East Midlands, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northants.

On Friday, August 2, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1436.05 / €1301.28 / £1184.17

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the court award in a long-running legal battle over copyright between Heritage Auctions and Christie’s-owned Collectrium.

While the vast majority of works at Old Master sales are by European artists, an unusual offering at Bonhams’ sale on July 3 was a Latin American work by a painter with Afro-Caribbean ancestry.

Martyn Fowler (answering 5Qs below) and his mother Jackie Harris run Puckhaber Decorative Antiques in Lillie Road, London. The firm has been showing at the Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair in Battersea for more than 10 years and launched a second shop on the High Street in Rye, East Sussex, in May.

Paris may have largely shut its saleroom doors for the summer months but beyond the capital, particularly around the French coast, auctions still take place throughout July and August.

An English travelling doll’s house, made in 1810 to entertain children on long journeys, sold for €48,000/£42,800 (plus 22% buyer’s premium) at Fonsie Mealy in Kilkenny, writes Noelle McElhatton.

The market for European ‘decorative arts’ – the wealth of late 19th and early 20th century ceramics, metalwork and design – has been in a constant state of flux since it first entered mainstream collecting in the late 1960s. As tastes evolve, so does pricing.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.

There’s no doubt that items from some of the ‘eureka’ moments in Victorian design are falling away from the collecting zeitgeist. The current fashion is undoubtedly towards the creative ideas of the second half of the 20th century.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.

Second-hand goods including antiques have helped boost retail sales in June according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics.

Under forthcoming UK ivory legislation, there will be no legitimate market for bronze and ivory Art Deco figures.

Pioneering astronomical works which appeared many centuries before the moon landing sell at auction.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.