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Bonhams has bought its fourth auction house this year: Cornette de Saint Cyr, with salerooms in Paris and Belgium.

A real stand-out success in the Comic Book Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) timed online sale that ended on May 29 was to be found among the large collection of US comics that were offered without reserve – albeit a British issue of the comic bearing a cover price of nine pence.

Captured on video camera and shared by the auction house on Twitter, this was the fistpumping moment of joy when historian Tom Holland bought a Psittacosaurus skeleton at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on June 30.

The jewellery team at Richard Winterton Auctioneers has expanded.

On Friday, July 1, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1795.65 / €1726.95 / £1486.44

A round-up of news and events from around the trade.

The top-selling lots in the Swaythling collection sold at Christie's were paintings from a diverse range of genres and periods.

During renovations of St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in 1789, the tomb of the War of the Roses monarch Edward IV (1442-83) was rediscovered and his coffin accidentally opened while being moved.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a watch worn by Elvis Presley selling for a six-figure sum at auction.

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

The Summer Sale at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter on July 13-15 includes this mid-Victorian colour change sapphire and rose-cut diamond pendant.

Dreweatts offers a private collection of work by Gerald Benney, perhaps the key figure in the revival of British silversmithing in post-war Britain.

The latest themed sale at Bonhams (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) was an auction titled India in Art, offering a mix of pictures and objects relating to the subcontinent.

Event organiser with memory of family antiques shop starts a bricks and mortar venture

The Fine Jewellery auction at Fellows on August 4 includes a gold George III mourning ring.

Ketterer’s (25/20% buyer’s premium) recent evening sale in Munich got off to a perfect start.

A selection of 14 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.

Platinum jubilee excitement combined with an emotive back story and a royal connection to create the perfect conditions to sell an Elizabeth II brooch

The Sykeses of east Yorkshire made their fortunes in the 18th century not only from cloth but from the flourishing Baltic trade in crude iron.

A study of a figure wearing a robe and turban drew a fierce bidding battle at Eldreds (25% buyer’s premium) in Plymouth at the end of last month.