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A COLLECTION of 11 antique violin bows valued at £110,000 is now feared stolen after they were left on a train.

THIS watercolour sketch comes from a remarkable 120-page First World War journal penned by Lieutenant Kenneth Edwin Wootton of the 1/21 Battalion, London Regt Tank Corps.

SHOWGROUND fair dealers are reminded to be vigilant after a visitor to the recent Newark fair had his pockets slashed.

WEST Dean College are to launch a ‘Conservation for horologists’ course next May.

Peter Robinson, principal auctioneer at Thomas Watson’s in Darlington, is currently in Buenos Aires taking part in the Carrera Copacabana historic car rally, which began on October 21.

Until May this year it was still in the ground in a Cumbrian field. Just five months later it was under the auctioneers’ hammer. Last week this Roman bronze cavalry parade helmet dating from the 1st-2nd century AD, sold for £2m (plus premium) to an anonymous UK private telephone bidder.

SUCH was the media coverage, and the worldwide interest, within the first three hours Sotheby's sale of the contents from the attics at Chatsworth had outstripped their modest £2.5m estimate for the entire three days.