British and Irish book auctions

Morris market in full bloom

London art dealer Philip Mould was the successful bidder

BADA chief Forgione steps down to head trade body

The British Antique Dealers’ Association is “considering

Sworders makes two senior hires

Stansted Mountfitchet auction house Sworders is growing

Brontë’s teenage years return to auction

Parsonage Museum ‘determined to make the most of second opportunity’ to own miniature manuscript

Linthorpe enters new price territory

A Linthorpe pottery sake bottle designed for the Middlesbrough

Record total for Orientalist auction as Najd collection raises £ 33.5m at Sotheby’s

Sotheby’s claimed the highest-ever total for an Orientalist

Pick of the week: No.1 microscope proves it’s still the best

The opening lot of Flints Auctions’ photographica and

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Sale that gets to the point

Tom Mason’s collecting bug began when his father sent

Precious metals

On Friday, October 25, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton

News in Brief

Paris auction house Artcurial is opening a permanent

Broadened horizons

While some medal collectors stick rigidly to a narrow period or theme, others take a wider view. A broad taste is evident from a large group on offer in Salibury. Tom Derbyshire reports

Extra award marks ‘Forlorn Hope’ bravery

The ‘Forlorn Hope’ was well named: a band of soldiers

Wheelbarrow fells Waterloo hero

Just imagine: you have been through the horrors of

Missing in action

‘Highly unusual’ is how the Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium)

Silver tureen salutes captain’s fighting spirit

American naval expertise and gallantry came as a big

Mascot fits the Bill

The Old Bill motorcar mascot was a popular item during

Badge is a cut above

A white-metal regimental badge estimated at £50-100

Poignant plaque for Women’s RAF

A Great War bronze memorial plaque – the ‘Death Penny’

Shako of sadness

This shako worn by an officer of the 26th Regiment

Using your head

Red jackets and white helmets looked lovely on the

Bicorne bidder

This felt bicorne hat is of a type worn by all ranks

RAF helmet soars

An RAF Second World War brown leather Type C flying

Fan adulation

Nelson’s naval heroics earned him many fans – and among

Hands of history

The great appeal of an otherwise typical early 19th

Timely look at the clocks market

Latest sales give a snapshot of what collectors are looking for amid different styles and eras

Powell stained glass panels shine in sale

As part of a House & Garden sale, the top-seller

Pankhurst’s angelic skills

Designed for the Suffragette movement by Sylvia Pankhurst

Celtic medal sells in Glasgow

A reminder of football’s early days, when huge crowds

Music box makes 20-times guide

Selling at some 20 times the estimate, a 19th century

Post rarity delivers a £24,000 result

Having stood at Guernsey airport from 1946-81, the

Austin pedal car trundles into Cheshire saleroom

As one of the most meticulously made pedal cars ever

The sound result of the suburbs

Classic summer scene by artist known for neighbourhood views makes rare appearance

UNDER £3000

Good art at a great price in regional sales

Tudor manor houses artistic gems from across the centuries

The old-fashioned country house sale hardly ever fails

Apollo heads over to Staffs saleroom

Dominating a grand lecture hall of one of France’s

Letters reveal a time of turmoil

English Civil War material is of particular note in a broad-ranging Somerset auction

Dickens first survives as an auction rarity

As expected, the copy of Great Expectations shown here

Gauntlet thrown down for last time but not accepted

One curiosity from a book and manuscript sale held

The market moves

Venerable London rare book dealership Bernard Quaritch, established in 1847, has recently moved from Mayfair to Holborn. Here Frances Allitt talks to two members of the firm, Andrea Mazzocchi and Donovan Rees, about its new location and some wider trends in the book trade

You and yours

The ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair is one of two major

Natural talents

Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918) was a Nihonga painter who

Suez Canal: conception to operation

Meridian Rare Books from London and Voyager Press of

Social history of the printed word

Collector turned dealer is writing an in-depth series on this often overlooked aspect of books

Bank account: the earliest days in Britain

This newly discovered ledger, dated August 18, 1660

Make the A grade

With the title and 26 plates tipped onto brown paper

EH Shepard pictures Bertie

Coming up for sale at Swann Galleries in New York on

Go Greene

A sale of Modern First Editions at Bloomsbury Auctions

Setting out the laws of cricket

The sale at Knights Sporting Auctions in Leicester

European union

Estimated at £10,000-15,000 in a Forum Auctions sale

The Bentley story

Estimated at £250-350 in a November 12 motoring and

First issue of Ulysses

Copy No 74 of the 100 signed, first issue copies of

American map discoveries in Scotland

Two early maps of colonial north America come for sale

Pilot’s ups and downs

A sale devoted to Military and Aviation History at

Floral frills

Billed as a ‘luminescent’ copy of one of the finer

Woodcut wonder

Shown left is one of the 96 woodcuts produced by Michel

Famous fables

From November 26-28 Christie’s Paris will disperse

Nineteenth century views of Constantinople

Pictured left is one of the 26 views, after Coke Smyth

Up to £500

Our weekly selection from salerooms

£501 - £2500

This Palitoy Star Wars figure, Walrus Man, on its unpunched

£2501 - £5000

While assessing the contents of a country house in

£5001 - £20,000

This rare Second World War recruiting poster by British

£20,000 plus

This impressive Regency mahogany revolving library

Go for a close shave at Olympia

Chinese barber’s bowl is a stand-out item at event now running in a revamped format

Take the chair in Harrogate

The final instalment of the three annual Pavilions

Scott reintroduced to the US

In 1953, British artist William Scott (1913- 89) made

5 Questions

Henry Miller of Miller Fine Art is a first-time exhibitor

The web shop window

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers

Cummings showcase

Jewellery designer Angela Cummings started a long career

Major-name attractions in Paris

Gentileschi and Corot works headline Old Master and 19th century auction at Artcurial

Pissarro rediscovered

On November 22 in Paris auction house Ader will offer

Head of a saint

The extensive autumn sale at Hermann Historica in Munich

Setting a new standard

Among the antique European rarities that are included

Stuck sculpture

The German artist Franz von Stuck is generally associated

Vroom shows a sense of perspective

It was a visit to the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino with

Greek doves inspire Romans

The history of the motif which inspired an unknown

Maine attraction

This Irish silver two-handled footed cup will be included

Panels portray palaces and architectural scenes

One of the highlights at Lempertz in Cologne on November

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Bristol photo fair begins life

New event unveiled which could become biannual if the launch is a success

Organisers plan hall fair expansion

Stately homes make for enticing backdrops to antiques

Antiques centre earns high praise

Oxford on High has been presented with the antiques

Tribute to a local hero

It’s a simple message but a powerful one. The words

Luring the Millennials – and younger

At a vintage and collectables fair in Brighton, 20-somethings were on the hunt for usable antiques

Dealer focus: Warren Wilkinson

For many millennials, a smartphone has replaced the