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Our selection of lots from 14 upcoming auctions

Huge collection concentrates on a world before mass producing

Family archive features poem written by Alice author for the well-connected owner of a scrapbook

A Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal group of 10 Second World War honours coming up in a New Zealand auction recognised not just one but two successful escapes from captivity.

A remarkable result for an unboxed group of plastic figures could be due to a ‘holy grail’ withdrawn set

Despite a repainted face, and the arms and legs not being original, this William and Mary c.1690 English carved wooden doll still impressed a buyer enough for them to win her at a hammer price of £4600.

It comes with very great sadness to announce the death of Anna Katherine Harvey Haughton (1937-2026), a figure so well known and loved by the art world, who died peacefully on August 9, surrounded by her family.

The highlight of the latest Militaria and Ethnographica sale at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) was an extraordinarily detailed first-hand account of shipwreck in the Indian Ocean.

For all their diminutive scale, the term ‘portrait miniature’ originally had nothing to do with size.

For holidaymakers who headed to Kent this summer, if you passed by Whitstable you may have seen a bench dedicated to the late Cindy Mainwaring Mack, the antiques fair doyenne.

An Edwardian ‘Regent Plate’ teapot by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company of London sold to a UK bidder for £4300 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Adam Partridge in Liverpool.

Remarkably, given Chelsea FC’s modern-day huge spending and multi-year lucrative contracts, two of the squad who helped to win their first-ever league title in 1954-55 were amateurs.