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Austin Farahar, head of cameras and photography at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium), was recently contacted by a budding documentary photographer in Vienna who had received a collection of old cameras from his in-laws.

Our selection of lots from 13 upcoming auctions

Perfect to impress your friends and family – or annoy them – many vintage jukeboxes can be bought at auction for three or four figures depending on age, model and condition.

A group of seven works by George Spencer Watson (1869-1934) provided a boost to Minster Auctions’ (20% buyer’s premium) recent two-day sale of fine art and antiques.

Once ubiquitous in British seaside resorts in their day, many pre-war amusement arcade machines are now so rare that just a handful are recorded.

Our regular listing of books and works on paper sales

A large single-owner collection of John Ruskin (1819-1900) drawings and watercolours is to be offered at London gallery Guy Peppiatt Fine Art.

One of the most important groups of works by the artists’ colony to emerge recently indicates level of demand in this market

The astrolabe was used for not only telling the time, but mapping one’s location, tracking the stars, and even as an astrological tool for decision-making.

Helen Carless, chairman of The Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers, and the former chairman and managing director of Lawrences of Crewkerne, speaks to ATG about the society’s activities.

John Andrews, director of Classic Antique Fairs, has bought two domain names related to the old event Art & Antiques for Everyone.

This Victorian lacquered brass device made by Elliot Brothers of London is a reflecting goniometer.

Knowledgeable bidders generated high prices for early typewriters at German technology specialist’s latest sale

An outstanding collection of British and Roman coins comes to auction in Zurich this year.

Twenty-six lots in the Science, Natural History and Curiosities sale at Burstow & Hewett (20% buyer’s premium) in Battle were previously owned by local botanist and entomologist George West.

Priced 10 cents when it appeared in 1938, a copy of Action Comics No 1 which introduced Superman has become the world’s most valuable comic book.

'Okashi', the Japanese term for anything strange, unusual or deliberately humorous, defines the array of pieces on display at Michael Hoppen’s first exhibition held in its new premises in Holland Park, west London.

'Moulin Rouge, La Goulue' was Henri Toulouse-Lautrec’s first commissioned poster and it launched his poster-making career overnight.

Bob Aibel is founder of Moderne, one of the exhibitors at the Philadelphia Show

By the start of 1962 The Beatles were on the cusp of stardom but challenges remained.