It took six burly men, three trucks and two full days to shift the life-long collection of the late Denis Warrington-Fry from his old Stanmore home. The 80-year-old pensioner had never married and rarely travelled. Instead, his one true love was a repository of statues, chandeliers, urns and figurines that consumed his energy, and his income, for six decades. But the bronze figurine of Zeus that lay among the reproductions is thought to be Renaissance treasure. It was snapped up by an anonymous London buyer at a Sydney auction on Sunday for more than $225,000.

A 19^th century three piece silver tea set by Australian silversmith Alexander Dick has sold for £42,000 hammer, £49,350  (IBP) ($76,897) by Tennants of Leyburn, North Yorkshire in their "Autumn Catalogue Sale".

The gods were smiling, and although the number 4 is considered an unlucky number in Chinese culture,  all the fours lined up in Part 4 of the four part 770 lot Mossgreen auction of Important Chinese Art in Melbourne on 22 November when bidding for four bronze Chinese gods soared to the heavens.

Bonham's decision to produce a separate catalogue to its main Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts for the sale of The Dale Frank Collection of Early Australian Furniture has been justified with 34 of the 45 lots selling (75%), raising $361,000 (hammer) against a low estimate total of $510,100.