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Dealer and BBC Antiques Roadshow expert Mark Hill has set up an auction house holding sales in Royal Tunbridge Wells.

A rare English silkwork portrait miniature of King Charles I discovered in a sock drawer sold for a multi-estimate £8000 at Bellmans’ auction in Billingshurst.

Lay’s is holding two ‘shipwreck’ auctions in a week as contents from the Charlestown Shipwreck Treasure Museum and the archive of wreck diver Richard Larn OBE come for sale in Penzance, Cornwall, on November 5-8.

A rare presentation ship model, made to commemorate what Nelson called his ‘hardest fought battle’, sold at Doyle New York.

The second day of the Design Since 1860 sale at Lyon & Turnbull on October 17 included a rare stained oak Charles Rennie Mackintosh stool from Miss Cranston’s Argyle Tea Rooms.

The collection of London dealers Alan and Mary Hobart, who founded Pyms Gallery in the 1970s, has been consigned to Christie’s.

As thanks for their bravery (and win) at Trafalgar on October 21, 1805, Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund awarded swords to 23 Royal Navy captains for their service in the naval battle.

The 135-lot private collection of renowned porcelain specialist Rod Jellicoe revealed the current state of a market long after its ‘vintage era’'

An early work by Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) will be offered by Ader at the Drouot auction centre on November 26.

Christie’s Exceptional sale format offers works across a wide range of different categories that are notable for their quality, rarity, provenance or a combination thereof.

On October 31 Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr of Paris will be holding the second instalment of its dispersal of Meissen porcelain from the collection of Hadrian Merkle.

Latest mid-level results for works by the incredibly prolific artist underline importance of sensible estimates

Our regular listing of UK and Irish sales

Old-fashioned contents sale from a château helped Drouot autumn season kick off with a strong start

The moment Johann Böttger oversaw the successful production of hard-paste porcelain at Meissen in Germany, the race was on for other European countries to create ‘white gold’.

More traditional side of the five-day extravaganza starts to overshadow the contemporary offering