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A chance to own one of the first Apple computers ever made is on offer at Christie’s online-only auction ending on Thursday.

It may have been rusty, damaged and lying in a garage in a state of disrepair but a pre-war clockwork toy train set still sold for a hammer price of £6500 at a Cumbrian auction house.

With estimates from £1000-20,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.

From responses to a Thatcher sale to cataloguing Harold Wilson’s, read what members of the art and antiques trade had to say this week.

Among the items that viewers of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow will see valued on this weekend’s programme are the original blueprints for the bouncing bomb depicted in the film ‘The Dam Busters’.

Bonham’s annual sale devoted to Aston Martin features old and new models of the classic British car – including some James Bond favourites – as well as a wide array of automobilia.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of masked thieves ram raiding the Petworth antiques fair and stealing dealers' stock and cash.