Auctions

The Mickey and Minnie Mouse motorcycle made by Tippco, c.1932, is the most desirable of all the German tinplate clockwork toys from the immediate pre-war period.

I was so glad to see the front page photo in ATG No 2738 [‘Bidders Pipe Up For Treen’].

Lake District cabinetmaker and woodcarver Ernest John Oldcorn trained at Gillows of Lancaster but he found his niche after joining the Arthur W Simpson workshop.

Single-owner collection reflects both the port’s position linking trade routes and the artisans it attracted

The South African auction scene is heavily dependent on the work of the handful of painters who played a key role in shaping the nation’s art in the first half of the 20th century.

Magic books library reflects obsession of collector who prized exceptionally clean examples

An original Georg Dionysius Ehret illustration of a magnolia blossom hammered for $330,000 (£242,000) at Arader Galleries (20% buyer’s premium) on February 7 in New York.

The March 3-4 sale at Chorley’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Prinknash Abbey, Gloucestershire, was topped by a good example of Qing imperial needlework: a yellow ground silk and metal thread cushion cover.

Our selection of lots from seven upcoming auctions

Nine potential buyers from France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, and the US engaged in a bidding battle for a 17th century Dutch genre painting in Lille.

Bidding competition breaks out in south London for Mannerist work discovered in a west London house

Roseberys’ Prints & Multiples auction on April 16 includes 56 lots from the collection of avant-garde artist Agathe Sorel (1935-2020) and her husband Gabor Sitkey, also a painter and textile designer.

Eighteen letters written by Beatrix Potter to an antiques dealer between 1933-43 come for sale in Nottingham this month.

A newly discovered prime period untitled work by Indian Modernist Akbar Padamsee (1928-2020) established a new house record for Roland Auctions in Glen Cove, New York, on March 28.

This Georgian treen tobacco stopper or pipe tamper sold for £2900 at Hartleys in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.