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Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales under £1300, including an Albert Goodwin view of Whitby.

Mayfair exhibition reveals the sculptor and painter’s huge impact on artists.

Historic military specialist Michael D Long offers this Victorian Royal Artillery officer’s sabretache and pouch for £785 at the London Antique Arms Fair.

A traditional art event keen to move with the times is pulling off a difficult double act.

Bearing later Georgian or Victorian embossed decoration, this 13¾in (35cm) diameter, 22oz silver charger, below, was a much earlier work.

Hiring a professional eye to present furniture and objects has become almost commonplace in the big London houses.

David Fulton (1848-1930) was a Glasgow painter who, like his contemporaries Gemmell Hutchison and William Marshall Brown, specialised in painting children in sentimental settings.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Burne-Jones’ studio assistant shows his own artistic skills in the Pre-Raphaelite genre.

Signed to the front cover by all four members of the group, a 1963 ‘Star Special’ (No 12) issue of the fan magazine Meet the Beatles sold for £4200 at Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) on March 6. It also bore the name of a former owner, one RC Zebedee of Bournemouth.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

It was a white-glove result for the 49-lot auction of the collection of Jeff Hunter offered by Freeman’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Philadelphia on March 13.

A charity antiques fair in aid of a Kent hospice will run at the Skinners School in Tunbridge Wells on Sunday, April 28.

Providing a stern test of the resolve of cricket enthusiasts, a Victorian loving cup was the unexpected star of Michael J Bowman’s (17.5% buyer’s premium) sale at Chudleigh.

Consigned from a deceased estate in Oxfordshire, a loosely bound album containing nearly 100 watercolours of marine and topographical views drew multiple bids at an Oxford saleroom.

MADAM – Inspired by the feature in ATG No 2384 about the little-known Girl-on-a-Horse English ceramic factory [also known as Compass factory], perhaps I could offer your readers another puzzle.

Bernard Middleton, MBE (1986), was a self-employed book restorer and designer bookbinder from 1953-2016.

Medical and scientific library includes landmark Vesalius study on human anatomy.

We regret to announce the death of Michael Bing (1959-2019), senior director at Sotheby’s, following a long illness. Michael’s funeral will be held at noon on Friday, April 5, at Mortlake Crematorium in London. A full appreciation will appear in a future issue.

Book dealer Martin Woolf Orskey, who died in December, aged 93, was a familiar figure in the trade. Indeed, OF Snelling, in his book Rare Books and Rarer People, published in 1982, described him as the “prince of all the book runners – for this is what he was to begin with, and he would be the first to admit it".