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ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from February 12-21, 2019.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Map dealer Jim Dickinson next stands at Art Antiques Cheshire (February 22-24)

A selection of 10 stand-out jewellery lots offered at auction in February-April 2019.

A rare Longines centre seconds military wristwatch – a type developed in 1944 for the rigours of airborne work by the Research & Development team of the War Department – sold for a multi-estimate £11,200 at Barbara Kirk (15% buyer’s premium) in Penzance on November 27 last year.

Among the many decorative works of art in Nagel’s sale in Stuttgart on February 27-28 is this 3ft 8in (1.12m) high mirror in an ornately carved gilt frame.

MADAM – I have some sympathy with the vendor who would not allow his watch to be opened (Letters, ATG No 2376).

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period January 31- February 6, 2019. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

A huge linen mural by Victor Pasmore (1908-88) which until recently was believed to be lost serves as the centrepiece of Marlborough Fine Art’s next exhibition.

In the early 1980s the London-based designer Ron Arad experimented with new forms of industrial design, incorporating materials that would otherwise have been discarded.

Coming to the Two Cs two-day Worcestershire Antiques Fair at the Chateau Impney Hotel are ceramics dealers offering porcelain pieces, including Derby, from the 17th to 20th centuries.

MADAM – Regarding Bid Barometer, ATG No 2377, your readers might be interested to know that the portrait painting featured is in fact a self-portrait of Helen Lessore (of Beaux Arts Gallery fame).

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the consignment of a large collection Anglo-Saxon objects excavated from a pagan cemetery for private sale at Hansons.

A local family that could trace a clear line back to the 1750 was the consignor of this gold, white enamel and citrine mourning ring to Henry Adams in Chichester.

Deemed a little ostentatious in some circles, tiaras have enjoyed a surge in popularity in recent years, particularly in Russia and the Baltic states where jeans and a diamond fascinator are de rigueur at informal high-society events.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Every year, a female portrait is chosen as the ‘Face of the Fair’ at CADA (see main story for fair details).

Casts of two key works from the New Sculpture movement topped Sotheby’s sale titled The Fine Art Society: 142 years on New Bond Street.

On Friday, February 8, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of $1311.10 / €1156.46 / £1012.04:

The rivière – one of the most popular and enduring styles of necklace to come out of the Georgian period – features an endless line of matched or subtly graduated gems set within inconspicuous collets.