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Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

The legend of author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is forever linked with sport fishing.

Three previously unseen works on paper by Joan Miró (1893-1983) have been discovered in a studio in Nice and are set to make their auction debut this month.

Two years after a Wiltshire auction house set a record for Titanic memorabilia with “the watch recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor”, another timekeeper making precisely the same claim is coming to market.

Alice Liddell was just a 10-year-old living in Oxford in the 1860s when Charles Dodgson – better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll – spun a fantastical tale to her and her two sisters Edith and Lorina on a summer afternoon by the Thames.

Antiques dealership John Bly is celebrating its 135th year in business with an exhibition.

The Mickey and Minnie Mouse motorcycle made by Tippco, c.1932, is the most desirable of all the German tinplate clockwork toys from the immediate pre-war period.

A book fair being launched in Ireland replaces an event last held in 2023.

A 1958 first edition of Martin Luther King’s Stride Toward Freedom inscribed by the author which was donated to a small Oxfordshire Oxfam fetched a hammer price of £2000 at Bonhams on March 26.

I was so glad to see the front page photo in ATG No 2738 [‘Bidders Pipe Up For Treen’].

South Queensferry, west of Edinburgh, was named last year by The Telegraph as the most beautiful town in Scotland.

This vintage duck model is on advertising duties for the annual Beccles Antiques Market run since 2009 by dealer Kate Lee.

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of the theft of four antique Coalbrookdale benches.

A remarkable assortment of jewellery is on offer at this spring’s Classic Antique Fairs.

Every spring and autumn for the past 10 years Francophile dealer Sharon Dallas turns her home into an antiques shop .

Second Llandudno business gets off the ground

An interview with antiques dealer Jeremy Astfalck of The Old Corkscrew, Franschhoek

Lake District cabinetmaker and woodcarver Ernest John Oldcorn trained at Gillows of Lancaster but he found his niche after joining the Arthur W Simpson workshop.