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A group of 10 drawings that depict the Elizabethan naval battle have been temporarily prevented from being exported in the hope an institutional buyer can raise funds to keep them in the UK.

With estimates from £700-15,000 here are five previews of upcoming items this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a painting believed to be LS Lowry’s only picture relating to a rugby match setting the highest price so far at an online-only auction at Christie's.

Christie’s has launched a new cross category auction as part of its Classic Week sales featuring many items with aristocratic connections.

Two more stagings of London fairs have been cancelled due to Covid-19.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rare pair of 19th century lapiz lazuli models of elephants that came from the home of Lionel and Edmund de Rothschild and made over double estimate in Salisbury.

The number of archaeological objects unearthed by the British public since the start of The British Museum’s Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) has reached 1.5 million items.