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Eclipsed in price by a £150,000 pearl (News, ATG No 2369), the c.1810 Swiss gold automaton pocket watch shown below was at least as eye-catching at the Roseberys (25% buyer’s premium) jewellery and watches auction on November 20.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from December 18-January 17, 2018.

Selection of contents from landmark French inter-war modernist building resurface after 1985 dispersal.

ATG's Review of the Year – the top stories and key sales in February 2018.

ATG's Review of the Year – the top stories and key sales in June 2018.

ATG's Review of the Year – the top stories and key sales in December 2018.

ATG's Review of the Year – the top stories and key sales in May 2018.

Golden Age Dutch art topped the bill at Bonhams in the December 5 sale via a fresh-to-market still-life attributed to the 17th century painter Pieter Claesz (1597-1660), which sold for over four times the estimate at £130,000.

ATG's Review of the Year – the top stories and key sales in January 2018.

The second stock sale from the French ceramics specialist Christophe Perlès was held at Drouot by Pescheteau-Badin (26% buyer’s premium inc VAT) on November 26.

Star turn in a sale held in the French city of Angers on December 5 was this small painting by the 17th century French artist Jacques Stella (1596-1657), below.

ATG's Review of the Year – the top stories and key sales in August 2018.

ATG's Review of the Year – the top stories and key sales in November 2018.

Very much a buyer’s market these days, English ceramics in their various forms are affordable to collectors on modest budgets.

Packed with job lots in many categories, the book section of a three-day antiques auction held at Mitchells (20% buyer’s premium) in the Cumbrian market town of Cockermouth heralded an intent to make such sales a regular feature.

‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’, ‘The Mystery of the Marie Roget’ and ‘The Purloined Letter’ are among now famous works that are to be found in the newly discovered first issue copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales shown below.