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The term ‘duty dodgers’ is applied to pieces that were not sent for assay during the period 1720-58 when a steep tax was placed on silver. Silversmiths had a variety of methods of escaping this tax – including transposing marks from small articles to large or overstriking marks from older pieces.

Roman relic up for auction is believed to be from same workshop as famous helmet.

Paul Boorman of Paul’s Emporium: Islington Antiques offers a range of stock including vintage furniture, paintings, taxidermy and tribal artefacts.

The name Marklin always suggested an O gauge loco and tender offered at Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) would find a buyer against a £200-300 estimate but there was a considerably greater head of steam when international collectors looked closer.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.

Our weekly selection from salerooms.

Featuring in Dix Noonan Webb’s Jewellery, Watches, Antiquities & Objects of Vertu sale in London on September 10 is a Hellenistic period single gold earring, c.3rd century BC.

Lyon & Turnbull’s African & Oceanic Art & Antiquities auction in Edinburgh on October 16 includes this Apulian-Corinthian helmet from the late 5th-early 4th century BC.

This map of Milan will feature in the sale of books and manuscripts to be held in the city by Il Ponte on September 24.

MADAM – With regard to the article ‘Thar she Blows...’ (Books and works on paper, ATG No 2404), Melville was only one of many authors who suffered from the puritanical attitude of US publishers.

A selection of silver lots coming up in the salerooms.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York consigning a collection of more than 300 Chinese works of art to Sotheby’s.

Kallos Gallery features this 2nd century Roman marble eagle in its autumn catalogue and on its stand at TEFAF New York in October.

This Korean gilt bronze figure of the deity Chijang Bosal or Ksitigarbha is dated to the Goryeo dynasty (13th-14th century).

A 9in (22cm) high Lalique clear and green glass bowl in the Gui (Mistletoe) pattern will feature in the sale to be held by Woody Auction in Douglass, Kansas, on September 7.

Spotlight on two upcoming fairs in East Anglia.

MADAM – A silver seal matrix, probably George III period, has recently been added to the Matrix Collection.

An example of a Bronze Age Yetholm type copper alloy shield from c.1300-975BC is for sale as part of the new Gentleman’s Library Auction format taking place at Suffolk saleroom Bishop & Miller on September 5.

Huge York event includes a mobile installation on bird theme.

An archive relating to a once famous Suffolk dynasty comes for sale at Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet on September 10-11. The diaries, journals and letters of Lady Ann Cullum (1807-75) of Hardwick House near Bury St Edmunds form part of a Fine Interiors sale.