An 18th century gold betal nut box seized following the fall of Seringapatam sold for £17,500 at Antony Cribb on March 26.
A rifle from the personal armoury of Tipu Sultan sold for £60,000 in Oxfordshire last week, writes Roland Arkell.
The magazine-fed flintlock rifle c.1785 with silver mounts and panels of gold-inlaid tiger stripe pattern (bubri) formed part of a cache of Indian arms and works of art from the descendants of Major Thomas Hart, a British East India Company officer who served at the fall of Seringapatam on May 4, 1799.