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A mandolin musical box by François Nicole (b.1766) delighted bidders at Lawrences (25% buyer’s premium) of Crewkerne, selling for £22,000 against a £8000-12,000 estimate.

We are sad to announce the death of the well-known flamboyant antiques dealer and artist Léonard Lassalle, member of the BADA.

The Het Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands has acquired one of Vincent van Gogh’s (1853-90) early portraits for €8.6m (£7.16m).

The ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair will take place in its charming and traditional location: Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road.

Dealer and BBC Antiques Roadshow expert Mark Hill has set up an auction house holding sales in Royal Tunbridge Wells.

A rare English silkwork portrait miniature of King Charles I discovered in a sock drawer sold for a multi-estimate £8000 at Bellmans’ auction in Billingshurst.

Lay’s is holding two ‘shipwreck’ auctions in a week as contents from the Charlestown Shipwreck Treasure Museum and the archive of wreck diver Richard Larn OBE come for sale in Penzance, Cornwall, on November 5-8.

A rare presentation ship model, made to commemorate what Nelson called his ‘hardest fought battle’, sold at Doyle New York.

The second day of the Design Since 1860 sale at Lyon & Turnbull on October 17 included a rare stained oak Charles Rennie Mackintosh stool from Miss Cranston’s Argyle Tea Rooms.

The collection of London dealers Alan and Mary Hobart, who founded Pyms Gallery in the 1970s, has been consigned to Christie’s.

As thanks for their bravery (and win) at Trafalgar on October 21, 1805, Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund awarded swords to 23 Royal Navy captains for their service in the naval battle.

The 135-lot private collection of renowned porcelain specialist Rod Jellicoe revealed the current state of a market long after its ‘vintage era’'

An early work by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) will be offered by Ader at the Drouot auction centre on November 26.

Christie’s Exceptional sale format offers works across a wide range of different categories that are notable for their quality, rarity, provenance or a combination thereof.

On October 31 Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr of Paris will be holding the second instalment of its dispersal of Meissen porcelain from the collection of Hadrian Merkle.