South-west England

The Fine Jewellery sale at Woolley & Wallis on July 15 includes this pair of Burmese ruby and diamond earrings with a family provenance to Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart (née Chaplin), Marchioness of Londonderry (1878-1959).

The Silver & Vertu sale at Lawrences in Crewkerne on July 20 includes this 17in (42cm) high Elizabeth I steeple cup and cover with the maker’s mark AB conjoined, London 1602.

Lawrences of Crewkerne is offering a charming picture of two dogs on July 21 that the auction house last sold in the 1950s.

The sale of 19th and 20th Century Ceramics at Lawrences in Crewkerne on July 22 includes two coil-built terracotta vessels by the Kenyan-born potter Dame Magdalene Odundo (b.1950).

A Battle of Britain medal group sold at Gloucestershire auction house Dominic Winter will go on display at a new museum in London, it has been revealed.

Returning to the same auction house after 20 years, a small hunting scene drew interest for the second time at Greenslade Taylor Hunt (19.5% buyer’s premium).

Naive-style Cornish art has been on a good run at regional auctions over recent months.

Silver specialist says collectors were raring to go at a Salisbury auction after months of staring at an online catalogue

The principal private collection of silver sold at Woolley & Wallis's latest specialist auction included a fine array of caddy spoons.

Two impressive Battle of Britain medal groups offered a day apart at separate auctions both took six-figure sums.

The bi-monthly 40-dealer Wednesday antiques and collectables market in Truro, Cornwall has reopened after a year-long absence with the upcoming dates of June 23 and July 14 plus Saturday, July 24, and ongoing to October.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Copy of the 1931 Golden Cockerel edition of The Four Gospels illustrated with woodcuts by Eric Gill stars in Bath auction.

Nine months after the last Shepton Flea was held at the Royal Bath & West Showground the market returns on Sunday May 30.

Dewlish House yields ‘good old-fashioned house sale with everything on offer’

Titanic specialist auction house Henry Aldridge & Son sells poignant items related to the rescue and recovery ships.

Duke’s sale of property from Wormington Grange in Gloucestershire included a record for the Modern British painter Algernon Newton (1880-1968).

Second sale since auction house move and name change is a British art pottery success

A week after Kinghams’ (23% buyer’s premium) inaugural Moreton-in-Marsh sale of British art pottery, the new Cotswolds rooms enjoyed a big hit in miniature – more specifically this portrait by one of Britain’s greatest miniaturists: John Smart (1743-1811).

Works from either a distinguished collection or well-known owner offered with appealing estimates are an enticing prospect at auction.