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A silver sauceboat made in London, 1731, a scarce remaining work by Huguenot female maker Elizabeth Buteux, was one of the highlight sales at the recent Winter Art & Antiques Olympia Fair.

‘Zero profit’ but event got through Covid and has 220 stands at the next event

British Modernist designer’s inter-war plywood creations are now seen as pioneering works

Mountainous scenes by Edward Theodore Compton (1849-1921) make regular appearances at auctions in Germany and Austria, where he tended to paint and retains a strong collecting base, as well as in the UK.

The Stroud engineer Edwin Beard Budding (1796-1846) is considered the inventor of the lawnmower (1830) and the adjustable spanner (1842).

A pair of ornate presentation flintlock pistols made in London and later owned by an American patriot sold for $55,000 (£46,200) at a US saleroom.

A ‘Siege of Louisbourg’ powder horn belonging to one Ranger Abijah Smith sold for $17,500 (£15,200) at Bonhams Skinner in an auction on September 28 in Massachusetts.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Estimated at just £60-90, this English Civil War-era mortuary sword sold for £2300 at Unique Auctions (22.5% buyer’s premium) in Lincoln on October 22.

On Friday, November 25, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1751.11 / €1688.01 / £1447.20

Offered as part of a series of sales held by Reiss & Sohn (19% buyer’s premium) of Königstein im Taunus was an exceptionally early cookery book.

A selection of 14 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.

The high-spending end of the year is a particularly busy time for art and antiques dealers

Paris auction Ader (28% buyer’s premium) was busy on the photographic front during Paris Photo.

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.

Walter Crane (1845-1915) designed seven red lustre vases for the Shropshire tile makers Maw & Co of Jackfield in 1889.

Among a number of sporting pictures generating decent interest at recent sales, this autumn Cheffins (24.5% buyer’s premium) posted the highest auction price for the hunting specialist Lionel Edwards (1878-1966) in over 12 years.

George Pol Georghiou (1901-72) is a well-known name in his native Cyprus where his work can be found in many public collections.

Staging a photo collection sale just as a specialist fair opened proved a great choice.

Small is indeed beautiful for traders at two redundant churches given a new life as antique centres in the heart of Norwich some years ago.