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Our selection of stand-out lots from 10 upcoming auctions

New rules surrounded by a constant lack of clarity are affecting deliveries both across the pond and the Channel. But specialist firms are finding solutions.

Back in July 2008 a rare Bristol delftware plate surfaced for sale. Decorated in the bianco sopra bianco style, it featured a bold image of a man on horseback and was inscribed 'A. Bosavern, Looe 1763'.

Halls’ (24% buyer’s premium) Militaria, Naval and Aviation Auction included a medal group with an intriguing link to a famous figure of the First World War, British nurse Edith Cavell.

Acting Lt Cdr Richard Lovelace Bigg-Wither not only had a memorable name but a Second World War career in the Fleet Air Arm that was also definitely one to remember.

Bonhams New York is staging The Jason Jacques Collection, the final sale of the art dealer and gallerist’s “extraordinary” collection.

An honour hailing from the Second World War demonstrates the peculiarity of this collecting market

An unusual piece of very early Meissen is coming up for sale at Metz in Heidelberg on October 18.

It was announced on September 6 that the University of Staffordshire has partnered with Stoke-on-Trent City Council to house the Thornhill collection of predominantly Chinese ceramics at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Hanley, with the aim of exhibiting it to the public for the first time since the 1980s.

Provenance to a noble family and market freshness generate impressive results for rarities

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

In your Auction Reports on April 5 (Art Market, ATG No 2687) you reported on Reeman Dansie’s sale of a portrait of a young British officer under the headline ‘Missing finger could point to sitter’s identity’. That portrait was the property of my late wife.

Coinex, the most important event on the British calendar for many serious coin collectors, opens at the Biltmore Hotel in Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square on September 26-27

From October 28-31 the Worshipful Company of Turners is hosting Wizardry in Wood 2025 – its quadrennial celebration of woodturning and wood art – at Plaisterers’ Hall in London.

That Willow became the most popular and persistent of the many transfer-printed landscape patterns was in part due to a stroke of 19th century marketing genius.