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Alex Capon’s article on Christie’s new auction rostrum is most intriguing, though I confess the accompanying photograph fills this reader with a certain melancholy (ATG No 2735).

A hitherto unknown c.1902 lithographic poster for Buffalo Bill’s famed Wild West show hammered for $40,000 (£29,510) at Morphy Auctions (23% buyer’s premium) in Las Vegas.

Whether it’s at a hotel, a restaurant or even in a car, he secures sales without an actual fair presence

Galerie Bel Etage of Vienna took a year off exhibiting at TEFAF Maastricht, opting to put out a catalogue, Masterpieces 2026.

Witherell (25/26% buyer’s premium) in Sacramento, California, posted healthy results for two markedly different lots of British origin: a scarce sporting cartridge advertising display and a silver epergne.

Edwardian silver and enamel desk sets are rarely as extensive as this one sold by Franklin Browns (18% buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh.

Discovered as a ‘box of bits’ in the late 1960s when clearing the attic of a London residence, a ‘First Period’ lantern clock was placed in storage until being put back together in the 1980s.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including two six-figure sum diamonds selling at two regional auction houses in London and Dorset.

Elements of a well-documented Empire period Sèvres dinner and dessert service surfaced at Kinghams (26% buyer’s premium) in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, on March 4.

Commercial airliner parts once destined for the scrapyard are now being upcycled by a Suffolk firm.

The 1931 etching, drypoint, and aquatint titled Two Beauties by French artist Louis Icart (1888-1950) features subjects he knew and loved.

On Thursday, March 19, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold trading price of: $4692.31 / €4082.67 / £3528.06

Paintings of youngsters prove popular but provide a looser, less formal and spontaneous appeal

Judy Berger of Judy’s Vintage Fair, which runs vintage furniture and fashion fairs and fleamarkets across the UK, with a focus on London, is launching something unusual: The Kensington Botanical Market.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

A diminutive but rare mid-17th century needlework picture sold for £11,000 in Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest Fashion, Costume and Textiles Sale.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

Re: ‘Mystery octopus vase holds me in suspense’ (ATG No 2735).

I’m really sorry to hark back to the ridiculous Ivory Act, 2022.