South-east England

Dreweatts and Christie’s will jointly sell the Stanley Goldfein collection of ceramics across two sales this year.

This Huntley & Palmers factory fire service helmet with white metal mounts and H&P monogram was the highlight of a collection offered at Kent saleroom Bentley’s (20% buyer’s premium) on May 15.

Victorian mountaineering book annotated by the author climbs to 20 times the top estimate

Despite Peter Barkworth’s very public profile his art collecting was a much more personal matter

Marion Richardson (1892-1946), a pioneer of the child art movement, was described as ‘one of the most influential art innovators of our time’.

Owen Simmons was a bit of a bread fan, it is fair to say. A lecturer at the National Bakery School in London, he produced the lavish book shown here.

The Science, Medicine & Early Technology auction at Flints (25% buyer’s premium) in Thatcham, Berkshire on May 1 was led by a complete seven-volume set of The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain by James Sowerby (1757-1822).

This rare 1880s Jean Roullet ‘Le Berger Watteau’ shepherdess with lamb automaton starred when the second part of one of the largest doll collections on offer in recent times went under the hammer.

Oil on canvas showing favoured subject of the artist takes top spot so far in UK sales outside London

The Scottish sculptor Amelia Robertson Hill (1821-1904) was surrounded by artistic family members.

Practical campaign furniture is one of the stars as West Sussex event reaches its 10th anniversary

A 78-page manuscript bought at a Bonhams auction could help to shed light on author Jane Austen.

Last month, Dianne Brick of Amherst Antiques announced she was winding up her business specialising in Tunbridge Ware after 39 years.

Jeremy Knight, a book collector and the former curator of Horsham Museum and Art Gallery, believes he has purchased an artwork that is “the earliest-known illustration of a black person on an English sampler”.