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ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from September 17-October 4, 2019.

Estimated at just £40-60, this ebonised wood and alabaster table casket sold to a bidder using thesaleroom.com for £1600 at Peter Francis (20% buyer’s premium) of Carmarthen on August 28.

A model example of trans-European trucking, this diecast van advertising a Swiss company was made in Italy and sold to a German buyer at the Runcorn rooms of British Toy Auctions (18% buyer’s premium).

A final selection of works from the London summer sale of books from the Fox Pointe Manor library* includes a gruesome account of London’s ‘Great Plague’.

The centenary of the influential design school provides a theme for the final Battersea Park fair of 2019

A one-day antiques festival returns to London’s Church Street for its third year.

Boosted by the ‘wrong therefore rare’ factor – so important in the world of collectables – a 1977 British quad film poster for the first Star Wars film took top billing in a 250-lot specialist sale at Ewbank’s (24% buyer’s premium).

'La horde de barbares' (1934) by Surrealist painter Max Ernst (1891-1976) is offered in an exhibition dedicated to the German artist at M&L Fine Art.

As previously announced in ATG, IACF has added to its fairs’ portfolio the biannual and popular Peterborough Festival of Antiques.

How very different London’s Euston station looks in this coloured aquatint from a copy of Thomas Talbot Bury’s 'Six Coloured Views on the London and Birmingham Railway'.

One of the star turns in the summer sale in South Cerney of Martin Orsky’s wonderful library emerged towards the end of the day. This was a uniformly framed set of five stencil coloured woodcut broadsides, heightened with bodycolour and glitter and representing ‘The Five Senses’, sold at £30,000.

Coinex, the British Numismatic Trade Association’s annual showpiece fair, returns on September 27-28.

Since opening its doors almost a decade ago, the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate has attracted 400,000 visitors a year.

It was while working as a studio assistant to Lord Leighton in the early 1860s that John Emms (1841-1912) travelled to Lyndhurst in the New Forest, a trip that would define his career as a painter of dog portraits and sporting scenes.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £3000.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Mid-century style is very much on the rise at the moment – as the organisers of the two Midcentury Shows in London know well.

Very different works by Daniel Defoe featured in an online summer sale in London: one famous, the other far removed in its subject matter and probably little known.

Good news comes with the relaunch of a two-day fair in central London. Jane Alexander of Dovehouse Antiques Fairs, which runs monthly antiques fairs in Dorking, has announced that she is taking over the Little Chelsea Fair.

Reinagle’s equine portrait painted in Reading brewery brings £15,000 at Salisbury sale