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A sword taken from the Indian Muslim ruler Tipu Sultan when he was defeated and killed during the fourth Anglo-Mysore War was hammered down at £12m.

Two artefacts with a joint value of $275,000 have been returned to Iraq after the latest investigation by the New York's Antiquities Trafficking Unit.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) announced the trade in ivory from hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, killer whale and sperm whale will be protected under an extension to the Ivory Act in the UK.

With estimates from £200, here are six previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of Christie’s first major auction series since raising its buyer’s premium last month.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a near pair of Qianlong jars that were bought for £20 in a charity shop selling for £46,000.

Setting an auction record for any book, manuscript or item of Judaica, a work billed as the ‘earliest and most complete Hebrew bible’ in existence sold for $33.5m (£26.6m) at Sotheby’s New York.