Victorian sailor woolwork pictures do not come along too often, but this and a very similar one were taken into Charterhouse's rooms in Sherborne recently, and should each pass their estimates of £1,000 on Friday. "What I find so appealing about them is that they are both by the same hand," says auctioneer Richard Bromell. "Usually, the sea in these naïve pictures is nice and calm, worked in long or satin stitches, but here it's choppy, with textured cross-stitching." In addition, both pictures feature tall lighthouses – and this one shows an important naval vessel, HMS Marlborough, which served as flagship of the Mediterranean fleet from 1858-64. What is not apparent is that when she was begun in 1855 it was as a sailing ship of the line – but she was completed to a modified design, with the option of steam. Believe it or not, her single funnel was just aft of the foremast.

Wessex Auction Rooms' sale near Chippenham this morning includes this substantial child's tricycle from the Fifties. Even given its somewhat sad state, it doesn't look the most user-friendly of trikes – which might be explained by the fact that its makers, R A Harding of Bath, were better known for their pre-war Bath chairs, of which they made eight different models. Based on the Lower Bristol Road, they turned to trikes and motorised tricycles in their later years, though as they could never compete with the major makers, their machines are quite rare today. This one has a guide price of £40-£60, but will need rather more spent on it after that.

There's an estimate of £2,000-£3,000 on a complete second edition volume of Sir Robert Atkyns's The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire, 1768 at Dominic Winter's sale in South Cerney on March 4 – and since it's increasingly rare to find this landmark book with its folding map, eight armorial plates and 64 folding engraved views all present and correct, this could be a second edition that sells at first edition prices. Of course, its abiding appeal lies in Johannes Kip's panoramic views of the homes of the great and the good, which in real life might or might not have looked as imposing as he portrays them. Seen here, dwarfing all other property around it in true Kip style, is Henbury Manor, built by John Sampson of neighbouring Charlton in 1688. Never the village's true manor house and better known as Henbury Awdelett, it was bought by Bristol City Council as a school about 60 years ago and survives to this day, much extended.

Dreweatts 1759 Bristol's next collectors' sale at Apsley Road, Clifton on Tuesday includes this 9ct gold 1895-6 Western League winner's medal, awarded to G Brown of Eastville Rovers, the forerunners of Bristol Rovers. It has an estimate of £300-£400, but there are some avid Rovers collectors out there, and that kind of money could well be left a long way behind. After all, it's a memento of the club's long-ago amateur days; it turned professional as Bristol Eastville Rovers in 1897, and became simply Bristol Rovers when it joined the new Southern League two years later.

This beautifully decorated decanter and glasses set by the Austrian makers Theresienthal is estimated at £500-£600 at Tamlyn and Son's sale in Bridgwater on March 2 . Sadly, two of the glasses have been damaged, and while both have been professionally repaired, one has a vaguely drunken looking list. Other than that, with its delightfully varied designs, the set is in very attractive condition.

There are now 10 Harry Frier watercolours on offer at Greenslade Taylor Hunt's sale in Taunton on March 4 – excluding the lake and mountain scene we published last week, which wasn't by him at all. Heads have rolled as a result of that, we can assure you, oh yes indeed. This rather less sophisticated view really is by Frier, signed and dated 1913 and estimated at £250-£300, while in among his more familiar townscapes is another rural view painted in the same year, of Tannery Coombe in the Quantock Hills (£150-£200).

This bronze car mascot of the World War I hero Old Bill should win the battle at Lawrences of Crewkerne's militaria, collectors' and sporting sale on April 8. Bill was the creation of Bruce Bairnsfather, who returned from the trenches with shell shock and hearing damage in 1915 and came up with this curmudgeonly old sweat with his walrus moustache and balaclava while he was recuperating at barracks on Salisbury Plain. Bill was first seen in the Bystander magazine, but soon he was everywhere, and his embattled cry of "If you know of a better 'ole – get to it", can still be heard today.