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

Our selection of lots from 14 upcoming auctions

Aesthetic Movement designers and artists were in thrall to the peacock and its extravagant plumage.

Perhaps it was meant to be a trade sign. Maybe it was commissioned by someone who wanted to decorate a house with a big game trophy but lacked the funds to bag one.

I’m working on a monograph on the Pakistani artist Ahmed Parvez who lived and worked in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s.

One of the highest prices for a figurative work by Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1881-1972) came at an early spring sale at Plymouth Auction Rooms (20% buyer’s premium).

One lucky bidder landed a top-of-the-line big game fishing rod made expressly for Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961).

Held by the same Dutch family for just over 300 years, a very high-grade Elizabeth I gold Sovereign sold for £75,000 at London coin specialist Sovereign Rarities’ auction on March 13.

Britains is best known as a producer of toy soldiers, but some of its ‘civilian’ figures required a different sort of bunker.

A Tiffany Studios favrile glass window depicting a tree-fringed river leading to distant mountains took $450,000 (£347,000) at DuMouchelles (24% buyer’s premium) in Detroit, Michigan.

A spectacular coin collection, buried for over 50 years since the Second World War, is coming to the market.

A hitherto lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn has sold for 136-times top estimate at auction in south London. Modestly guided at just £300-500, it hammered for £68,000 at Wimbledon Auctions on March 31. Raeburn (1756-1823) never painted Scotland’s national poet from life.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the news Welsh auction house Rogers Jones has acquired new premises.

These two silver lots bear the mark of Henry George Murphy (1884-1939), whose Falcon Studio produced some of the finest English silver of the inter-war era.

Only a decade ago Carlton Ware designer Violet Elmer (1907-88) was a relative unknown compared with her contemporaries Clarice Cliff, Susie Cooper and Charlotte Rhead.

Archive on offer in Missouri saleroom includes items relating to a landmark 1913 procession for women

Swiss Alpine scene takes top spot in a family consignment as UK sale reveals considerable demand

Among the earliest examples of Australian gold rush jewellery are the simple signet rings sold to miners in the settlement of Ballarat in the 1850s as a memento of the boomtown days.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

The Cotswold Art & Antiques Dealers’ Association (CADA) held its first London fair - Cotswold Art Antiques Chelsea - at Chelsea Old Town Hall on the King’s Road from March 20-23.