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As hugely personal items and of relatively small melt value, spoons represent the great majority of English domestic silver items surviving from the pre-civil war period.

Bid to a double-estimate and record $24,000 (£18,460) at Freeman’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) of Philadelphia on October 14 was a complete and well-preserved example of publisher John Bell’s great Poets of Great Britain… collection.

A special focus on stand-out lots in decorative art & design auctions coming up this month.

A rare Charles II commemorative silver thimble sold for £980 at Bleasdales (20% buyer’s premium).

Bid online to a record £3200 in a Norfolk auction was one of 375 copies of a 1924 Nonesuch Press work comprising the first chapter of Genesis…, as illustrated with a dozen woodcuts by Paul Nash.

Weschlers’ Capital Collections auction takes place in Rockville, Maryland, on December 11.

Proper disclosure when contracts are drawn up will save a lot of later hassle.

English edition of the most famous scientific book of all finally ends up in German hands.

With indoor fairs still more or less on ice for now, a new project from Shapero is offering dealers the chance to unite under one roof.

As Discover Vintage, Keeley Rosendale has run her well-supported vintage fairs in the north of England since 2009.

Offered by Bryan Reeves of Tribal Gathering for £4200, this Luba baboon mask is one of more than 100 objects on offer at Tribal Art London’s third online event, Spirit Animals.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.

Bonhams’ December 14 Chinese and Japanese works of Art sale in Los Angeles will include works from the Collection of Rosalind Ching Pastor.

MADAM – The report on the George III gold pair cased pocket sold at Golding Young & Mawer on November 4 (ATG No 2468) contains various inaccuracies.

Lucy Haywood runs her Country Brocantes in West Sussex, including the grounds of Parham House and at the Daylesford Organic Farm in Gloucestershire.

The artist, cleric, schoolmaster and author William Gilpin (1724-1804) is best known as a champion of the Romantic idea of the picturesque.

The art and antiques sector breathed a sigh of relief with the news that shops and centres, auction houses, markets and some fairs can reopen in England from December 2.

Estimated at £6000-8000, an Anglo-Saxon bronze gaming piece – a metal-detecting find for the consignor – sold for £95,000 (plus premium) at the latest auction at TimeLine in Harwich, Essex.