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While the achievement of Manchester City players in winning three titles in consecutive seasons – with a treble – is certainly admirable, spare a thought for Tom Wilson, a footballer of a much earlier era.

This pair of Bow porcelain figures of a cockerel and a hen sold for £7200 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Dore & Rees in Frome.

Despite its many shortcomings in terms of accuracy and reliability, the flintlock Long Land Pattern smoothbore musket – or Brown Bess to give it its more familiar nickname – remained in use from 1722 until the introduction of the percussion cap in 1838.

More than 50 dealers are taking part in London Art Week with exhibitions in their galleries or online

The team at the freshly re-branded Harper Field were in fine form for the opening of its brand new saleroom earlier this month.

Artefacts hailing from a vast geographical area come together in west London saleroom

Don’t forget your walking shoes when visiting Ben Brown’s 'Alighiero e Boetti: Regola e Regolarsi'.

Ahead of David Messum’s major show of British paintings in London and Marlow, the veteran dealer tells ATG about his long career – and how he relaxes on a terrace in Corfu with a paintbrush and a G&T

Fabrics, costumes and theatre set designer turned to painting when her work was destroyed by a bomb

Illustrious names feature under portraits in a book about flying heroes from the Second World War

Roseberys’ (25% buyer’s premium) sale of Antiquities, Islamic and Indian Arts on April 28 – which included the 13th century Mamluk manuscript on astronomy pictured on the front page of ATG No 2592 sold for a surprise £140,000 – also boasted this striking 12in (30cm) marble architectural roundel.

These two archival prints of David Bowie dressed in a striped bodysuit he wore during the 1973 Aladdin Sane tour were part of Chiswick Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) sale of 19th and 20th Century Photographs on May 31.

A look ahead to some of the many stand-out items on offer at auctions this summer

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

This classic example of Venetian vedute was taken to a multi-estimate £34,000 at Gardiner Houlgate (22% buyer’s premium) in Corsham.

Collaborative London galleries event signals renewed appreciation of this collecting field

A 1954 edition of 'The Mousetrap' play script offered on June 6 at the Cotswold Auction Company (24% buyer’s premium) was inscribed by the author “For James Grout on our 6th birthday, Agatha Christie”.

Rachel Elwes is a director at Ben Elwes Fine Art, one of the participants in London Art Week.

With the National Portrait Gallery about to reopen, ATG takes a look at exhibition and auctions on the theme