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Its survival a mystery for years, a rare 1950s Meccano store display figure has surfaced in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Among the hundreds of new products launched at the Exposition Universelle in 1900 was the so-called eggshell porcelain, produced by the Rozenburg Royal Delftware Factory in the Hague.

Designed by George Tinworth, c.1885, this Doulton Lambeth spill vase commemorates the first transatlantic phone call between the UK and the US.

Broadside offered $100,000 reward in total for apprehension of president’s killer and accomplices

Relatively little is known about the German-born artist and designer Elsa Tennhardt (1899-1980).

A recent Vintage Posters sale at Swann Galleries (25/20/12% buyer’s premium), a summer staple of the New York auction house, was dominated by three large early 20th century magic posters, each hammering for $22,000 (£16,650).

Memorabilia collected by a founding father of modern computing makes for a remarkable auction

In October Christie’s conducts a timed online sales series titled Collections.

Christie’s posted a spate of record prices at three New York sales from September 10-12 offering Paul Allen’s extraordinary collection of scientific and technological items.

Leading a recent sale at Vogt Auction Texas (25% buyer’s premium) was this portrait of an early 20th century champion homing pigeon.

The vulture and serpent teapot designed for Minton by the Victorian soldier, artist and writer Colonel Henry Hope Crealock in 1874, is considered the most coveted of all majolica teapots.

A recent sale held by Auctions at Showplace (20% buyer’s premium) included an early work from the Panamanian National Pottery School.

Intaglio had been part of the ‘peerless collection’ which created one of the biggest art scandals of its day