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The Britains Boer War Army Service Corps Supply Column set is described by toy soldier expert James Opie as “one of the must-have sets for keen collectors”.

The vendor of this 1966 Mercedes W111 250 SE Auto Coupé won it in a competition.

Bid to £2800 via thesaleroom.com in a Forum Auctions (25/20/12.5% buyer’ premium) sale of May 5 was this seemingly very rare broadside published in London by James Catnach.

Cordelia Bourne is one half of Patrick Bourne & Co which takes part in London Art Week and Masterpiece this summer.

These two oak boarded chests, made to similar techniques four centuries apart, were offered for sale recently.

Dealer Ben Wright is holding an online exhibition of clocks.

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

Innovative marketing ideas are part of the package for a Norfolk event

Among the places to see in and around Tunbridge Wells is the The Pantiles Arcade.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

This Scottish Arts & Crafts brass framed mirror, above, is the epitome of the so-called Glasgow Style.

A portrait of a lady in Japanese dress, a late work by Beatrice Huntington (1889-1988), is offered as part of Harvey and Woodd’s latest exhibition.

A new antiques shop opens in listed 18th century building following refurbishment

A regular two-day auction of silver, art and antiques? Not at Whittons in Honiton, Devon, where the firm called its sale on June 8-9 a ‘Jubilee auction’ and auctioneer Ed Whitton donned a suitably patriotic jacket and tie to sell a good range of lots such as Georgian silver and Victorian jewellery.

Bid to £4000 – 10 times low estimate – in a May 18 sale held by Tennants (22% buyer’s premium) of Leyburn were two albums of what were defined as grotesque-style caricature portraits.

A group of 39 lots at Dreweatts’ latest Old Master, British and European Art sale on May 26 came from a descendant of the artist John Anster Fitzgerald (1832-1906).

The next PBFA online book fair goes live on June 29 with a wide range of dealers exhibiting.

A group of 140 lots owned by dealer Joanne Booth is coming to auction in Henley-on-Thames this summer.

Grisly figures burning at the stake reflected religious background of Staffordshire potters

In June 2008, Canterbury Auction Galleries claimed a record price for a Louis Wain ceramic when a version of the 11in (28cm) Futurist Cat in blue with Amphora factory marks sold at £8200.