This ornate little French mantel clock is tipped to make £500-£600 at Tamlyn and Son's next sale of antiques and timepieces in Bridgwater on April 13. From the 19th century, its flower-decorated enamel dial is surrounded by clear paste stones, while a very well-cast cockerel finial completes the picture. The good news for whoever does the dusting in the house is that this confection is usually to be found under a glass dome.

The Dreweatts 1759 Bristol sale of medals, militaria and arms at Apsley Road, Clifton on March 23 includes this collection recalling Private Clifford Pike Fabian of the 12th "Bristol's Own" Gloucestershire Regiment, a Fishponds Road boy of 19 who was killed in action at Delville Wood in July 1916. For sale with an estimate of £200-£300 are his Great War Western Front, Delville Wood and Casualty Medals, British War and Victory Medals in their original cardboard box, a Great War memorial plaque and framed and glazed memorial scroll. Private Fabian has no known grave, but is remembered with honour at the towering memorial to the missing of the Somme near Thiepval, Picardy.

A collection of pottery described by the TV antiques expert David Dickinson as "magnificent" and "fabulous" goes under the hammer at Moore Allen and Innocent's sale on April 1, where auctioneer Philip Allwood will disperse lots amassed by the Real Deal team at the Oasis in Swindon a couple of Saturdays ago. Gemma Croucher travelled from Sussex with late Victorian pottery which had been part of a collection built up by her mother, and in 1975 had been part of a Doulton exhibition curated by Richard Dennis of the renowned Dennis Chinaworks of Ilchester. Standout pieces included a pair of vases featuring trademark donkeys by Hannah Barlow, which could attract bids of £1,000-£1,500, while another pair decorated with her geese looks good for around £1,000. Several other lots should fetch £500-plus, but whether or not Gemma was right to reject some quite substantial dealer offers for them will become clear when the show is aired later this year.

The Yorkshire collection at Dominic Winter Book Auctions' sale in South Cerney on March 31 is so strong that next Saturday some of its choicest items will be taken up to Harrogate to go on show. The books reflect life in the county over the past 300 years, from local characters and low life to religious movements, sports and pastimes, cookery and architecture, and there are some real curios among them. Seen here is an illustration from the 1708 first edition of a cheery tome called Midgley, Hallifax, and its Gibbet-Law Placed in a True Light. To Which are Added the Unparallel'd Tragedies Committed by Sir John Eland, of Eland, and his Grand Antagonists. Some 53 men and women were guillotined on the Halifax gibbet between 1286 and1650, often for the theft of cloth over the value of 12 pence, but offenders who escaped over the parish boundary about 500 yards away were reprieved. Dominic estimates the book at £200-£300, but you never know; there is still a Gibbet Street in Halifax, and locals never cease to be intrigued by this grim feature of the town's history.

This fox from Beswick's Fireside range could fetch £200-£400 at Lawrences' sporting sale in Crewkerne on April 8, since these were substantial models – more than 12 inches high in this case. Designed by Graham Tongue, it's of no great age, issued between 1970 and 1984, but Fireside were the giants of the late lamented Beswick's output, and they are always in aptly hefty demand.

These part-built steam scale model locomotives are on offer at the Cotswold Auction Company's sale at the Bingham Hall, Cirencester on Friday, in a strong specialist section of toys, dolls and models. A collection of Fifties diecast models includes many boxed Matchbox toys; they had belonged to the seller's uncle who, happily, had bought them as a child and kept them in mint condition out of the clutches of his less careful elder brother. A second collection consists of an astonishing number of aircraft, Corgi vehicles, Star Wars, Thunderbirds, Starship Troopers, Revell and other models, while a boxed set of Glencoe Spacemen and Women has absolutely nothing to do with tragic Scottish moorlands.

A Royal Marine who saw action in the Falklands is selling his medals, belt, beret and other mementoes of his 12-year career at Charterhouse of Sherborne on March 26, and he should come out of it £700-£1,000 to the good. Having served with 4th Assault Squadron attached to HMS Fearless in the Falklands, he moved to the Commando Forces News Team, where he collected a large number of photographs, including a few taken when Prince Charles undertook the Commando training course in 1974, one of which is seen here.