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An item of great interest for me was the small pocket knife that was recently sold together with its own story from the Titanic disaster* [see Previews, ATG No 2739].

In 1950, the Swiss artist, architect and designer Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967) joined his cousin Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (who had assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier) to create a new capital of Punjab.

A pair of Edwardian wine and water ewers by London silversmith Sydney Bellamy Harman, 1910, tied for the most-expensive lot at a recent Doyle (28% buyer’s premium) auction.

A rare vinyl and rubber Supersol monster toy seized top-lot status with its vivid blue-green vinyl claws at a recent sale at Landry Pop Auctions (22% buyer’s premium) in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news that picture specialist Kevin Lines has set up a new firm after stints at Bishop & Miller and Hansons

According to the lot notes, 11 wood veneers from Macassar ebony to burr maple were used in making the c.1903 Émile Gallé Épis de Blé sideboard.

The quarter-century-old auction record for Moorcroft pottery has been broken with the sale of a massive Flambé Landscape pattern vase for £32,000. Probably produced for exhibition in the late 1920s, the 15½in (38.5cm) high shouldered form vase is decorated with tubelined tall trees and hills and glazed in green and blue with a flambé sky.

Two years after a Wiltshire auction house set a record for Titanic memorabilia with ‘the watch recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor’ at £900,000, another timekeeper making precisely the same claim has sold in Chicago for $800,000 (£592,000).

The latest Design Since 1860 sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh was topped by four Morris & Co tile panels depicting the Labours of the Months dated to c.1865.

A Winnie the Pooh museum was among the buyers of rediscovered drawings by EH Shepard.

A rediscovered naïve painting showing Marlborough College in the years before the school was founded has been sold by a dealer to the college itself.

A memento mori pendant depicted in a celebrated 17th century family portrait on the theme of grief, mortality, and religious faith has been discovered and is offered for sale at a London fair.

The first Australian sporting team to tour internationally included players Johnny Mullagh (traditional name Unaarrimin), Harry Bullocky (Bullchanach), Dick-a-Dick (Jungunjinanuke), Johnny Cuzens (Zellanach) and Twopenny (Murrumgunarriman).

As a dealer, collector and enthusiast of ethnographic art, Gordon Reece spent a lifetime travelling the globe in search of artefacts.