South-west England

As very personal items, typically weighing little more than an ounce of bullion, the most numerous silver survivors from the 17th century are spoons.

Anglo-Chinese huanghuali bureau cabinet was spotted just down the road from saleroom

Among the best-performing lots at the Woolley & Wallis (25/12% buyer’s premium) Ceramics & Glass sale was a rare Wedgwood black basalt seal.

The pre-Christmas market organised by Bath Vintage and Antique Markets this year runs on Sunday, November 28.

A group of dealers will be putting themselves on show for once instead of displaying art and antiques.

Sold for £16,000 in a September 23 sale was an album of 41 watercolour studies of birds produced by William Weston Young (1776-1847).

A small portrait sketch of a young boy by George Henry Harlow (1787-1819) drew lively interest at the recent Fine Art & Antiques sale in Gloucestershire.

Distinguished naval officer admired by Nelson was also a talented watercolour painter

A clockmaking industry thrived in the Chew Valley of Somerset in the second half of the 17th century.

In 2010 The National Gallery held the first exhibition of works by Frederick Cayley Robinson (1862-1927) in the UK for 30 years.

A great many of the lots that brought prices in the £1000-10,000 range in a recent Cheltenham sale were multiples of varying size – some running to as many as a hundred volumes – but noted here are a couple with that same Spetchley Park provenance that can be more precisely defined.

After the James Macintyre & Co factory was awarded a gold medal at the St Louis International Exhibition in 1904, Moorcroft pottery was sold in the US by a number of boutique retailers including Shreve & Co of San Francisco and Tiffany in New York.

Your starter for 10 – can you identify the artist of these still-lifes? Samuel Peploe, right?

Antarctic maps take highest prices in collection relating to key Terra Nova crew member

Two micro-mosaic pictures took a six-figure sum at a Cirencester saleroom – 10-times their low estimate.

Emile Berliner (1851-1921), a German clerk in a Washington DC haberdashery, is credited with inventing both the first commercially successful disc record and the first machine to play it.

Stand-out cartographic lots sold in Gloucestershire include a string of early rarities

Closed for almost two decades, a shop in the Cotswolds town of Dursley has been brought to life as an art and antiques business.

Thirty-five handpicked textiles dealers from across the UK will be converging at the Cheese & Grain, an arts community venue in Frome, Somerset.

This 7½in (19cm) Japanese wood netsuke shows the standing figure of Ashinaga with his arms outstretched.