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The answers to the giant crossword that featured in the Christmas edition of ATG (issue 2372). The winner was Richard M Collier of Marmaduke’s Emporium, Shropshire who receives our congratulations and a bottle of champagne.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period January 3-9, 2019. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

On Friday, January 11, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton were paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of $1292.80 / €913.27 / £1012.91.

Illustrations offered as part of an online Sotheby’s (25/20/12.9% buyer’s premium) sale held in early December included a couple of Arthur Rackhams.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Inscribed to a fellow dramatist, a presentation copy of the 1933 first of Nathaniel West’s classic black comedy, Miss Lonelyhearts, did exceptionally well at Christie’s New York (25/20/12.5%).

Speaking before Parliament’s vote on Brexit scheduled for the week beginning January 14, Helen Yourston, director of B2B Events, said: “Obviously that is a real concern for dealers at our fairs, but so far bookings for 2019 are looking buoyant.”

UK art shippers are urging the government to speed up Brexit ‘deal or no deal’ preparations at the country’s major ferry ports as the UK prepares to leave the European Union on March 29.

A previously unrecorded teabowl and saucer attributed to a pioneering American porcelain factory is expected to bring a six-figure sum when offered for sale in Salisbury next month.

Four well-known dealerships have teamed up with auction houses for major sales of stock in the early months of the year.

Auctions on New Year’s Day are a tradition in regional North America. The sale at Nadeau’s in Windsor, Connecticut, on the first day of 2019 included a collection of 17th and 18th century English silver that had been given to Yale University in 1896 in memory of a former alumnus, the Pennsylvania coal baron James Browne Neale.

Serendipity had it that three early pieces of European pottery and glass – two of them dated – were offered for sale across a trio of English regional auctions in a matter of days in December.

At the very end of the 15th century, in Venice in December 1499, there emerged from the presses of that city’s most famous printer, Aldus Manutius, what is traditionally described as the most beautiful illustrated printed book of the Italian Renaissance.

Bound as two volumes in contemporary red morocco gilt, its plates and plans finely coloured and gilt heightened throughout, an exceptional example of Joan Blaeu’s celebrated 17th century townbook of the Netherlands was offered in a recent American sale.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from January 8-31, 2019.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Since 1994, the New York businessman Richard Baron Cohen has been a welcome guest at international auctions, fairs and dealers.