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This typical genre scene by Italian painter Alessandro Milesi (1856-1945) was taken to a multi-estimate $37,500 (£31,000) at a US auction

English furniture highlights from the Fred and Kay Krehbiel Collection sold by Hindman, the estate of Alan and Dianne Kay sold by Freeman’s and the Hyde Park Antiques sale at Sotheby’s, underlined strengths and weaknesses of English country house taste

Inscribed as a gift and sent with his kind regards to Miss Anne Stephenson, the daughter of his aunt and uncle, Abigail and Samuel Longfellow Stephenson, an 1868 edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 'The Courtship of Miss Standish and other Poems' was offered in a sale held by Sarasota Auctions (26% buyer’s premium).

There was plenty of choice for ceramics collectors at the Krehbiel collection sale.

Across more than 800 objects offered at the Krehbiel sale, the great majority were proper antiques.

Objects associated with the infamous 18th century ‘Beggars Bennison’ society command a certain appeal.

Offered as part of a March 2 sale held by Heritage (20% buyer’s premium) that was billed as a Pulp Magazine Showcase was this October 1919 issue of 'The Thrill Book'.

Ceramic works by the late Lady Anne Gordon, Dowager Marchioness of Aberdeen (1924-2007) are becoming a favourite with a new generation of collectors and decorators.

American couple amassed an extensive collection from the famous English factory

Complete with the often missing dust jacket and entirely unrestored, as the cataloguer’s notes were pleased to point out, a 1925 Hogarth Press first of Virginia Woolf’s famous novel Mrs Dalloway was offered as part of a March 2 sale at Swann Galleries (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) of New York.

Master Drawings New York (MDNY) has a new owner, advisory board and partnership.

Les Enluminures’ next New York exhibition comprises a single well-documented Italian gem.

Richard Beale, the owner and managing director of London coin auction house Roma Numismatics, has been arrested in New York in connection with the sale of a record-breaking classical coin.

Kelly Kinzle Antiques trades from New Oxford, Pennslyvania, in the US.

Here is a heart-warming story for all admirers of retro canine-themed jewels. Yes. The lost puppy has been found.

A 1908, presentation first of one of WW Jacobs’ maritime tales, 'Salthaven', was the top lot in a sale held by Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium).

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

Kate Mitas specialises in 19th and 20th century American social history, with an emphasis on women’s history. She is one of the exhibitors at The Ephemera Society of America fair in March (18-19) and the New York Antiquarian Book Fair (April 27-30).

Headlining Sotheby’s Asia Week New York line up is the 23-lot single-owner auction Celestial Colors. The Cadle Family Collection of Chinese Monochromes.