International

An extensive selection of Beatles memorabilia sold by Propstore (26% buyer’s premium) on October 23 included a 1963 poster promoting their first tour outside the UK.

This hand-coloured daguerreotype was taken in 1856 by Rufus Anson, a New York photographer who operated a studio on Broadway from about 1851 to 1867. His address is cut into the velvet interior of the case.

Drawing for mural design was first thought to be a lithograph

A sale at Leland Little (25% buyer's premium) in Hillsborough, North Carolina, included a once well-known work by the Edwardian artist Charles Sims (1873-1928).

A sale conducted by US firm Connecticut River Book Auction (15% buyer’s premium) on September 5 included a very rare copy of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s Le Petit Prince.

The Kiryu Kosho Kaisha (The First Japanese Manufacturing and Trading Company) was set up by the Meiji government after the great success of Japanese crafts at the Weltausstellung 1873 Wien (Vienna world’s fair).

Doyle (28% buyer’s premium) set a record for an artwork by Mathilde, Princess Bonaparte (1820-1904) at a sale in New York.

A ‘monumental’ pair of 15-light silver candelabra made by Tiffany & Co for a member of the Vanderbilt family hammered for $230,000 (£171,565) at John Moran Auctioneers (27% buyer’s premium) in Monrovia, California.

Franz Xavier Kosler (1864-1905) made his reputation painting Arabian market scenes and the art market continues to admire them.

Two sales held just over 1000 miles apart on the same day included coveted examples of European post-war furniture.

A 9in (22cm) high vase Tiffany Studios copper and enamel vase sold for a surprise $20,000 (£14,800) at Roland Auctions (30/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) on September 21.

I am a Dutch historian working on a biography of the Belgian nobleman Arthur Baron de Woelmont (1826-1911).

In the 16th century, so-called double mazer goblets were highly treasured works of art.

Early evidence suggests uncertainty is a major obstacle for the market

For many decades, the collection of the German industrialist Walter Bauer, who died in 1968, has been hidden from public view.

From the mid-18th century onwards, members of the Courvoisier family belonged to the most important and innovative watchmakers in Switzerland.