Essex

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

If this view of London by William Richardson (1814-99) looks as if St Paul’s Cathedral has been magically transported to the mouth of the Grand Canal in Venice, that might not be too surprising.

A group of manuscripts that featured letters from 12 Nobel Prize-winning scientists was offered as part of Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) Books and Maps timed online sale ending on November 2.

Ken Bolan, the retired King’s Road, Chelsea, dealer, is having a second post-retirement auction.

A simple Edwardian open face silver pocket watch used on the Trans-Antarctic Expedition sold for £2600 at Kinghams (26% buyer’s premium) in Moreton-in-Marsh.

A rare photograph from the funeral of Victorian explorer Dr David Livingstone (1813-73) comes to auction in Essex this summer.

Bust once thought to be 18th century reassessed as 1st century AD after auction house’s research

The latest Homes & Interiors sale at Sworders included an extraordinary and highly personal relic from the Waterloo battlefield: a silver-mounted inkwell made from the ear of a war horse.

A biannual addition to Sworders’ calendar is The Glass Sale - the first on October 28.

Bibles from the Mulberry House sold well at Sworders in Stansted Mountfitchet

Nine-strong collection of Georgian and Victorian games counts as a highlight of mixed auction

It is perhaps fitting that the shirt belonging to a player who scored two goals successively in the quarter, semi final and final of the 1975 FA Cup would double its top estimate at Stacey’s (25% buyer’s premium) on April 28.