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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.

THIS year's National Antiques Week is November 15-21 with the aim of the annual promotion being to raise the public profile of the antiques trade and encourage young people to visit shops and fairs.

CHARLES Hampshire of Peter Francis auctioneers in Carmarthen has won the NAVA National Auctioneer of the Year Award.

WHILE the sale of artworks and ephemera formerly owned by the Lehman Brothers bank had a strange attraction for souvenir hunters and contemporary art dealers, it was, perhaps more surprisingly, also of interest for enthusiasts of marine art.