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The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of Christie’s sale of the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts’ extraordinary library of modern first editions.

Police in Suffolk have appealed for help to trace antique jewellery stolen from a shop in Beccles.

A pair of ‘prime location’ Venetian scenes by the great Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto (1697-1768), will lead Christie’s Old Master sale in London on December 7.

A study of a horse and rider billed as a late work by Raphael (1483-1520) is being offered at auction in Austria.

Glasgow Women’s Library has bought a hunger strike medal at auction at Bonhams after more than 500 people donated to help secure the piece of suffragette history.

Peter Harrington Rare Books is offering a first edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) at Frieze Masters in London this month – the only extant Shakespeare play not included in any of the four folio editions.

With estimates from £4000, here are four previews of items coming up at auction this week.