Auction - Season 2

Series exploring some of the most intriguing and pricey pieces to pass through the world's greatest auction houses. A snuff box made from timber from the HMS Victory is sold in London.

Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann's chaise longue 'on skis' attracts big bidders in Paris while, in London, a Warhol portrait of Debbie Harry and an intriguing sketch of the Queen go on sale.

An Edinburgh auction house tries to sell a Mackintosh table that's been stuck in a garden for 20 years. In New York, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Anthony and Cleopatra goes on sale.

A Wiltshire auction house packs out for a jade teapot made during the Qianlong dynasty that's expected to fetch £300,000. Meanwhile, an unusual Edward Seago is offered in London.

Al Capone's revolver comes up for grabs in London. Meanwhile, the world's biggest jewellery box goes on sale. Made for the Exposition Universelle, it could fetch half a million pounds.

A once-in-a-lifetime work goes on sale - a sketch by Michelangelo of a painting that never was. And an auction of pieces from the great houses of Europe offers a million-pound chandelier.

Promoted as the greatest collection of 20th-century British art ever to come to the market, over 100 paintings and sculptures assembled by Wilfrid Evill goes on sale in London.

A painting from Monet's popular series goes on sale in New York. In London, a sculpture of Berenice carved by Ambrogio Borghi from a single block of marble could fetch up to £400,000.

In London, author and amateur auctioneer Jeffrey Archer sells the watch used to clock Roger Bannister's four-minute mile and 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher's famous black Asprey bag.

A London auction asks for £20million for George Stubbs' Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath and an emerald and diamond tiara goes on sale in Geneva with a staggering estimate of $10million.