Antiques World's picks for the weeks ahead

This 19th-century marquetry side cabinet with an extended plate rack is one of the more eye-catching pieces of furniture on offer at Wessex Auction Rooms' selected antiques sale near Chippenham on July 9. Not quite from the top of the tree but still beautifully inlaid, it is estimated at £1,500-£2,000 on a day that is likely to be dominated by the large collection of works by the "Glasgow Boy" painter James Paterson, which we noted last week.

A good private collection of more than 30 lots of parasols and walking sticks is to be found at Gardiner Houlgate's sale in Corsham on September 17. Sticks with silver or silver-mounted ivory handles are in particularly strong demand, and the silver hare and ivory horse seen here should both rise to £200-plus. The skull and worm might prove to be a rather more acquired taste.

A cannon steeped in British naval history is expected to spark world-wide interest when Dreweatts 1759 auction it near Newbury on July 15. The huge 24-pounder was aboard Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cloudesley Shovell's flagship HMS Association when she and four other vessels were wrecked off the Scillies in 1707 with the loss of nearly 2,000 lives, one of the worst disasters in the history of the Royal Navy. For 260 years it lay on the sea bed beneath the Gilstone Rocks until it was salvaged in 1967. When Sotheby's sold it two years later, it was billed as "the most important naval cannon to come on the market for 100 years". More than 10ft long and weighing three-and-a-half tons, it bears the arms of Louis XIV, since it's a weapon cast for the French navy in the late 17th century and loaded aboard HMS Association after the Battle of Vigo Bay.

As befits its subject matter, Frederik De Wit's atlas of 1688 is attracting global interest ahead of Dominic Winter's sale in South Cerney on July 22. With this astounding allegorical frontispiece and 105 highly decorative engraved maps, it's a memorable insight into the late 17th-century European world view, and a landmark in the history of cartography. Watch out for bidding soaring up towards £30,000 for this one.

Gardiner Houlgate pride themselves on their musical sales, but this collection of ethnic and tribal instruments from a deceased estate in North Wales takes them into rarely-trodden territory in Corsham on September 25. From the same estate is a fine array of brass instruments including two examples of the ophicleide, a conical-bore, brass-keyed bugle invented in Northern Europe to replace the Renaissance serpent in about 1800 (£1,500-£2,500).

Hundreds of football programmes, mostly from the Fifties and Sixties and including internationals and European games, should pull in collectors and dealers alike at Henry Aldridge and Son's sale in Devizes on July 18. Seen here are mementoes of three classic European Cup finals – Real Madrid, Di Stefano, Puskas et al, v Eintracht Frankfurt at Hampden Park in 1960, the still rampant Real v Inter Milan in Vienna in 1964 (around £100) and Manchester United v Benfica at Wembley in 1968. Eusebio and the lads in Lisbon still swear the result of that one would have been different if it had been played in Porto.

Tuesday brings Claire Rawle's sale, at Tamlyn's of Bridgwater, of some 200 passionate and lyrical letters written by the poet Norman Gale to Winifred Craven, his long-time confidante and muse and almost certainly his sometime mistress. Spanning from 1919 to his death in 1941, they cast important light on his working methods, include drafts of scores of his poems, and along with other lots of his published and unpublished work, prompt Claire to expect interest from American university libraries. The Gale material is part of a sale of items – including jewellery originally costing tens of thousands of pounds – from the estate of Winifred's daughter Suzanne Lucas, who went on to become a leading botanical illustrator.