East of England

Paintings of youngsters prove popular but provide a looser, less formal and spontaneous appeal

A rare drawing by Matthias Buchinger (1674-1740), the remarkable 18th-century German artist born without hands or feet, is going under the hammer at Cheffins on March 25 estimated at £1000-1500.

The Wurlitzer Company was founded in the US in 1856 and the Centennial 2000 jukebox model was created to commemorate the centenary anniversary.

What is being promoted as “perhaps the most significant private collection of British comics ever assembled” is coming to market with two separate auction houses involved.

Spotlight on awards that brought rewards for vendors in three separate sales

The citation for a Distinguished Flying Medal awarded to Act F/Sgt BG Tucker RAF stated he had “completed many outstanding sorties against such heavily defended localities as Berlin, Essen and Hanover.

Cambridge auction house Cheffins marked its 200-year anniversary by raising £270,596 for charity in the region – exceeding its original bicentenary fundraising pledge by over £70,000.

Norfolk auction house TW Gaze has secured permission to sell an Edo period ivory netsuke in the spring.

Monthly event in Bedfordshire kicks off the year with successful staging in early January

Poignant paintings make highest auction sum for the artist outside London

Focus on businesses based in two towns rated among ‘most desirable’ in the UK by newspaper

As ruler of an empire on which the sun never set, Queen Victoria adopted the Indian practice of giving Kashmiri shawls as gifts to visiting dignitaries and coming-of-age and wedding presents to her friends at court.

Norfolk antiques and vintage shop now a year old is based within a working water-powered flour mill

Boba Fett – one of the most feared bounty hunters in the known galaxy – was one of six hired by Darth Vader to capture the crew of the Millennium Falcon, and eventually caught up with them in Cloud City (ATG is not sure a spoiler alert is needed for early Star Wars films...).

So-called ‘talc pictures’ or ‘metamorphoses’ were fashionable amusements in European courts in the second half of the 17th century.

Sales ranging from enamel signs to petroliana and breweriana generate a booming market