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A selection of upcoming lots focusing on stand-out items from two key design movements

A French gold and enamel box with an unusual decoration caught the eye of several bidders at Kendzia (16% buyer’s premium).

With Old Master sleeper spotters trawling through online catalogues looking for works with hidden potential, it is not unusual for the odd lot to draw unexpected bidding at auctions all over the country.

From October 17-20, the 15th edition of the prestigious fair Munich Highlights is opening its doors in the Residenz, the one-time city palace of the Bavarian royal family.

The Autumn Auction at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood in Exeter on October 15-16 includes an array of unusual objects from the collection of the late Christopher Hawkings, who at one time was the co-owner of Phillips, Son & Neale in London’s Bond Street (the firm that later became Phillips).

Designed by George Tinworth, c.1885, this Doulton Lambeth spill vase commemorates the first transatlantic phone call between the UK and the US.

Back in 2017 Helen Bowman and Ben Wray, formerly Bowman Fairs, hit on the idea of holding a fleamarket at Skipton Auction Mart.

Schloß Ahlden (25% buyer’s premium) near Hanover was presumably expecting more than the modest estimate of €500 for an 18th century Chinese doucai dish (diameter 8in/21cm) that was to become one of the top lots of a recent auction.

Broadside offered $100,000 reward in total for apprehension of president’s killer and accomplices

Relatively little is known about the German-born artist and designer Elsa Tennhardt (1899-1980).

A recent sale at Claydon Auctioneers (21.5% buyer’s premium) in Buckinghamshire included a suite of aluminium bedroom furniture by the HG Hawker Engineering Company.

On Friday, September 27, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2665.30 / €2402.41 / £2019.17

The UK ban on the trade in antique scrimshaw and narwhal tusks has been delayed following the change of government.

An ancient Assyrian relief stolen from an archaeological site in Iraq in the early 1990s has been returned to the country after being stored for an extended period by the Metropol itan Pol ice in London.

Plucked from a box of bric-a-brac brought in for a general sale, a Commonwealth gilt brass sealing wax box sold for £5200 at Lawrences of Crewkerne. A clever pun gives a clue to its maker’s identity - and perhaps his political leanings.