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Five auctions coming up featuring lots on a musical theme.

Buyers in Wales this week have a wealth of art and antiques to choose from including a 19th century traditional Welsh hat.

From an Armada table to a Titanic return poster, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.

Some hailed the creation of a new artwork in the saleroom courtesy of Banksy – others called for vigilance in the trade. That and more with our quotes of the week.

'La fête d’anniversaire' by the Japanese-French artist Léonard Foujita (1886-1968) sold for a hammer price of £6.1m (plus buyer's premium) to one of eight phone bidders at Bonhams’ Impressionist and Modern Art sale on October 11.

The buyer of the £1.04m Banksy that was partly shredded in a publicity stunt at an auction has agreed to keep the work - which has been renamed ‘Love is in the Bin’.

The National Maritime Museum and National Museums Northern Ireland claim the bidding process in the sale of more than 5500 artefacts from the wreck of the doomed Titanic prevented them from submitting a formal offer.