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This handsome Georgian mahogany silver or china table soared above expectations at an auction in the Channel Islands.

A spectacular Victorian silver fox modelled by taxidermist James Rowland Ward sold for £100,000 at Tennants on November 16.

A fight for restitution of an artwork, as ATG readers will be well aware, frequently involves descendants/grandchildren of a family originating in Austria or Germany, claiming title to a valuable artwork.

The Marauder’s Map from the Harry Potter film series hammered down at over nine times estimate at Propstore on November 14, selling at £190,000 to a leading dealer.

The residual contents of Yorkshire country house Copgrove Hall were sold by Duggleby Stephenson (25% buyer’s premium) in York.

On Friday, November 22, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2704.22 / €2597.14 /£2163.38

Our selection of lots from 10 upcoming auctions

An eight-page account of the famous football match played on Christmas Day in the First World War during an unofficial truce was a highlight of a remarkable album compiled by Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse Maude Alice Lineham (1883-1967).

When it was last sold 30 years ago, Chinese export figures of this rare type were thought to depict a Dutch lady - perhaps the wife of a governor of Batavia.

Among the opening sales at the FAB Paris fair at the newly restored Grand Palais was this Sicilian Baroque polychrome and gilt wood sculpture group of the Annunciation.

It was interesting to read your front-page article on the cigar case produced to mark the King of Siam’s visit to the UK in 1897 (‘The £200 eBay cigar case that sparked a £16,000 bid’, ATG No 2669).

As the gift-giving season arrives, jewellery seldom disappoints. Pictured here are a range of antique and vintage jewels coming up for sale in the next couple of weeks, all with estimates under £1500.

A recent sale at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (26% buyer’s premium) in Exeter included a late 15th century Italian manuscript that is thought to be a codex unicus.

Braxton joins newcomers at a market with 32 dealers and a waiting list

The National Horseracing Museum (NHRM) in Newmarket has put on display a portrait of Charles II which it bought at auction this year.

A pair of pistols that were presented by Napoleon just six weeks after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo are on offer in Thomas Del Mar’s sale of Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria on December 4.

ForgeLynch (Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch) is getting into the Christmas spirit with an exhibition called Gifts from the Ancient World. It will be held at its Pall Mall office in London from 10am-6pm, December 2-6.

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.

For the past 33 years Andrew Singleton has sold antiques from his shop in Yoxford near the Suffolk coast. He moved out in May this year.