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Mouseman furniture is a highly popular if not exactly uncommon sight at auction but not so often do you see a group with a backstory as comprehensive as that coming up at a Buckinghamshire sale.

A French three-colour gold snuff box was a highlight of the silver and vertu section of Lawrences (25% buyer’s premium) of Crewkerne’s recent winter sale.

Soon after the Italian coin engraver Benedetto Pistrucci moved to England in 1815, he received a prestigious task from William Wellesley-Pole, the Master of the Mint. He was commissioned with the creation of a series of new gold coins for George III.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

US book dealership Raab Collection is offering a document from the final days of President Abraham Lincoln.

Silverware was a major component of Bonhams’ (28/27/21/14.5% buyer’s premium) Knightsbridge auction titled The Connoisseur’s Library on February 13-14.

Group of works by a maker who used mostly traditional techniques creates a secondary market test

Film and TV stars must be a forgetful bunch, if lots sold at two recent UK auctions are anything to go by.

For its 35th edition the Bath Decorative Antiques Fair can boast 11 new exhibitors.

'Cloud' (1978) is among the highlights of Grosvenor Gallery’s exhibition on the works of Sri Lankan painter Ivan Peries (1921-88).

On Friday, February 23, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2024.43 / €1861.04 / £1594.04

Cologne auction house Lempertz (25% buyer’s premium) opened its auction year with a sale of African and Oceanic works of art in Brussels.

One of the earliest pieces in the auction of works of art at Koller in Zürich on March 21 is a copper and enamel figure of a dove.

Amherst Antiques, the Kent-based specialist in Tunbridge Ware, is offering reductions on some of its stock as the owners prepare to retire.

In 1903, only one year before his death, Emile Gallé was commissioned by the Belgian company Solvay et Cie with the creation of a bowl to mark the 30th anniversary of its factory in Dombasle.

Themed fairs are an added reason to head for Etc Fairs’ events held in London at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury WC1.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales.

The contents of Sandford Orcas Manor will be sold at auction by Duke’s of Dorchester on March 6.

Our selection of lots from nine upcoming auctions

Ed Morris runs 1923 Antiques with his father Roy and is one of the exhibitors at the upcoming Bath Decorative Antiques Fair