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Star of the show at Auktionhaus Heilbronn’s (21.7% buyer’s premium) latest sale of tinplate toys was a rare three-carriage Märklin train from the Rheinuferbahn, the line from Cologne and Bonn along the banks of the Rhine.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper auctions

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Enormous slice of Soho culture and history features in gallery’s 25th anniversary show

Alan Old of So Last Century fair is going all festive with a two-day seasonal market set to run in Dulwich, south London, at the end of this month.

In the early years of the 20th century toy trains made in Germany were also aimed at the British domestic market, eagerly sold by retailers such as Gamages.

Stanley Gibbons and Baldwin’s have been cornerstones of the philatelic, numismatic and wider collectables community for a combined 300 years. Victoria Lajer is the current CEO, and began working in the world of philately in 2007.

With the scrap price of silver at such a high level the sad truth is that many items will end up in the melting pot.

Among the attractions at Nagel’s auction of Asian art on December 9 in Stuttgart is a blue and white imperial vase from the Kangxi period (1662-1722).

Les Enluminures has sold a thousand-year-old Giant Bible of St Maximin to the National Library of Luxembourg for €4.5m (£3.735m)

A temporary export bar has been placed on a needlework sampler created by an 11-year-old 19th century schoolgirl.

An antiques fair which launched in May at Cheltenham Racecourse got off to such a good start that it is being repeated on Sunday, November 24.

The antiques, collectables and decorative arts fairs run by Jackie Edwards of ACVR Events in the centre of the Hampshire town of Romsey involve just one location but five, inside and outside.

Around £20,000 worth of items have been stolen from National Trust property Montacute House in Somerset.