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A £70,000 17th-century atlas and a sofa from singer Marianne Faithfull's collection are among the highlights of an antiques fair returning to North Yorkshire.
The Northern Antiques Fair runs at The Garden Rooms and Cloisters at Tennants in Leyburn from Thursday, October 8, to Sunday, October 11, with antiques and artworks from 35 leading dealers.
The star exhibit is a complete 1616 John Speed atlas, a rare Latin edition with 67 original uncoloured maps and its original vellum binding.
HR J Dickinson Maps & Prints: A page of N & E Ridings of Yorkshire from 1616 complete John Speed atlas (Image: Supplied)
A spokesperson for the Northern Antiques Fair said: "John Speed is Great Britain's most famous cartographer.
"His atlas contains maps of every English and Welsh county, with informative plans of county towns, the surrounding islands, maps of Great Britain, Ireland and its four provinces, and general maps of the whole of Wales and Scotland.
"This atlas will always be an important and historical depiction of Great Britain in late Tudor times, prior to industrialisation."
Large silver sculpture of Desert Orchid, c1990 (Image: Supplied)
J Dickinson Maps & Prints is offering the atlas for around £70,000.
An Art Deco two-seater sofa from the Marianne Faithfull Collection, dating from around 1930, is being sold by Holly Johnson Antiques for £5,200.
Other highlights include a £4,250 rosewood mantel clock by Frodsham of Gracechurch Street, dating from around 1850, and a 1974 limited-edition 18-carat gold Sir Winston Churchill centenary medal box containing 13 prints of his life.
Charles Hunt 1829-1900 The Clockmaker (Image: Supplied)
Howards Jewellers is showing number 11 of just 200 Churchill boxes made.
Breckland Antiques is offering a £4,250 early-1930s Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson oak elbow chair with a sailing-galley heraldic roundel.
Another unique item is a French Art Nouveau Daum glass and silver absinthe flask, dated to 1880–1890.
The flask was designed to be carried discreetly in a glove or muff and is available from Solo Antiques for £995.
Mouseman logo on cabinet (Image: Supplied)
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Established in 1951, the Northern Antiques Fair returns to Leyburn for its sixth straight year, with historical and contemporary pieces priced from hundreds to several thousand pounds.
The fair opens from 11am to 6pm on Thursday and from 11am to 5pm from Friday to Sunday.
Find full details at northernfair.com.
Part of 1974 centenary gold box containing 13 picture medals of Wiinston Churchill's life (Image: Supplied)