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In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from the voices of the art and antiques market.

The original score for The Beatles' song Eleanor Rigby is being offered at an auction in Warrington with an estimate of £15,000-25,000. The document, handwritten in pencil, is signed by producer George Martin and Paul McCartney.

An exhibition at Sotheby’s Geneva showcases Cecil Beaton’s (1904-80) photographs of women wearing jewellery.

A sketch study by Pop artist Peter Blake is to go under the hammer in Cambridgeshire auction house Rowley’s.

There was some good old-fashioned auction drama at the Elgin Auction Centre in Morayshire on August 23 when two lots of loosely-catalogued tribal clubs sold to online bidders for a combined £46,500.

A Ru Guanyao brush washer is up at auction at Sotheby’s Hong Kong.

“Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep watch by your weary head.”

A 6ft high peacock sculpture by artist Geoffrey Dashwood has been stolen from a garden in the New Forest.

The British Museum’s Collection Online database is back up and running after a technical glitch forced it out of action this month.

A man from Sunderland who forged the work of local artist Norman Cornish (1919-2014) has been ordered to repay £1.

A painting by Canaletto’s nephew Bellotto has been saved for the nation after being acquired by the National Gallery in London.

A fine example of Grand Tour jewellery comes up for sale at Peter Wilson of Nantwich on September 13.

An oil study once believed to be a cheap print set a record for the American artist Norman Rockwell last week.