South-west England

Inscription by AA Milne using his nickname boosts price of a limited-edition copy to £21,000

Matchbox can sell well even when there isn’t an actual vehicle in sight.

Elements of an avant garde silver and malachite table service designed by Josef Hoffman for the Palais Stoclet in Brussels sold to a single buyer for £505,000 (£636,300 including 26% buyer’s premium).

Widely varying plans outlining a faraway harbour and a slice of rural Yorkshire bring saleroom surprises

This pair of Bow porcelain figures of a cockerel and a hen sold for £7200 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Dore & Rees in Frome.

The team at the freshly re-branded Harper Field were in fine form for the opening of its brand new saleroom earlier this month.

This classic example of Venetian vedute was taken to a multi-estimate £34,000 at Gardiner Houlgate (22% buyer’s premium) in Corsham.

Illustrious names feature under portraits in a book about flying heroes from the Second World War

A 1954 edition of 'The Mousetrap' play script offered on June 6 at the Cotswold Auction Company (24% buyer’s premium) was inscribed by the author “For James Grout on our 6th birthday, Agatha Christie”.

Stroud Auctions has completed its rebrand and relocation and is now called Harper Field Auctioneers & Valuers.

A sale of Old Masters, British & European Art at Chorley’s in Gloucestershire on June 27 includes this 17th century English School painting depicting the burning of London Bridge.

The Qing hexagonal form blue and white jardinière shown here is a type used to grow flowers or bonsai at the Qing court.

The first recorded order for Arita porcelain by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) is dated 1653.

A print commemorating an 18th century example of British and American military cooperation was given as a present 200 years later to mark another joint success.

Woolley & Wallis is selling elements of a silver and malachite table service designed by Josef Hoffman for the Palais Stoclet in Brussels.

A small but eyecatching self-portrait by Denton Welch (1915-48) equalled the auction record for the artist.

Two works bringing demand at different auctions recently showed the market’s continued appetite for works by Modern British female artists.

A huge plan used during the British Titanic inquiry was the top lot of Henry Aldridge & Son’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest auction dedicated to Titanic, White Star and Transport memorabilia.