Matthew Whitney of Charterhouse must have mis-spent his childhood watching all kinds of blood-and-thunder films, since time after time he declares vintage cars that come under his hammer "classic gangstermobiles". He applies that dubious accolade to the Plymouth Sedan seen here, which we must say looks perfectly blameless to us, and also to a Packard Straight Eight with twin-mounted spare wheels and running boards. The Plymouth is estimated at £10,000-£15,000, the Packard £30,000-£35,000 at Charterhouse's auto sale at Sherborne Castle on July 19, so neither of them is going to be a steal.

See little terracotta guys like this one and the first thing you think is Goldscheider, but all Clevedon Salerooms are prepared to say at the moment is that he's sitting atop a box made in Austria in about 1900. Appearing at the company's big quarterly sale at Kenn Road on June 18, and standing 23cm tall, he is currently estimated at £250-£350.

Ceramics decorated by Picasso don't come cheap, but at least they open up doors to his followers who could never afford to buy one of his canvases in a million years. This goat charger is estimated at £3,000-£5,000 at Duke's sale in Dorchester on June 18 – and it's quite a significant piece, since animals of all sorts feature regularly in his work, and the head of a goat is a recurring subject. Certainly this one has all the wit, life and exuberance that Picasso could bring to any work of art, whatever its price tag.

It's a 1959 Gibson Les Paul guitar that's caused most of the pre-sale buzz so far leading up to Gardiner Houlgate's big music sale in Mayfair in October, with a six-figure sum seen as almost a formality. But be sure that this 1961 Fender Stratocaster in fiesta red will also have its moments, another classic axe which might well make its estimate of £20,000-£30,000 look modest. A one-owner instrument, it was bought by a local musician from a Bath music shop for £120, plus a £40 guitar traded in. That doesn't sound bad business to us.

At Dominic Winter's children's and illustrated book sale at South Cerney on June 18, a collection of original gouache on celluloid "cels" from the 1959 Disney film Sleeping Beauty is estimated at £3,000-£4,000. They mainly feature Briar Rose and Prince Charming, but there are also small images of the fairy godmothers and their stars, two rabbits and two birds. Like all true Disney memorabilia, they come with authentication from the Animation Art Gallery.

Let's talk about the little silver salvers, or "waiters", first; made by Richard Carter and Robert Makepeace in 1777, they go into a Lawrence of Crewkerne sale in July with an estimate of £800-£1,200. That will be a big day for Alex Butcher, his first in Somerset since crossing the border from Woolley and Wallis is Salisbury, and at 44 he becomes a director as well as head of his new company's silver department. Nice little story: at the age of 10 he spotted six blackened silver teaspoons in a box on Warwick market. The dealer wanted a penny each for them and just a year later, the lad sold them for £17 – more than 270 times what he had paid for them. We had irritating kids like that at our school, too. Didn't you?

Talking of men on the move, ex-Dreweatts 1759 operator Henry Meadows has joined the Cotswold Auction Company in Cheltenham, a thorn between two roses, as none of the three people in question would like to be thought of. A one-time staffer at Spinks, the coins and medals specialists, he is expected to beef up the company's presence in the militaria market, and his first chance to do so will be at Chapel Walk on August 4. There he will have a good number of Victorian campaign medals on offer, as well as Great War pairs and groups of three. A group of four awarded to Chief Veterinary Surgeon C E Norgat, comprising a Queen's South Africa medal with Rhodesia clasp, a Great War 1914-15 star, a British War medal and Victory medal is expected to fetch about £400 – but with interest in medals bubbling up the way it is, who knows?