Woodworking machinery and tools, ride on mowers, power tools, a greenhouse and garden items should bring plenty of home handymen running to auctioneer Steve Graham’s latest clearing sale from 10am Sunday November 22 at 375 Gap Road, Sunbury.

The woodworking machinery features a Robland single phase combination table saw, while there also is a Morticer jig, wood lathe, scroll and band saws and a Pedestal angle cutter on offer.

A giant thermometer advertising Stephens Inks is one of the more unusual items in a quality special sale this week at Young’s Auctions from 9.30am Friday November 20 at 229 Camberwell Road, East Hawthorn.

The quality of the sale is reflected in four large Lladro pieces, Penfolds Grange Hermitage wines and three-carat diamond ring with a $25,000-$30,000 estimate leading fine jewellery items.

A 7.34-carat diamond entitled Altan Nur from the palace of Emir Alim of Bokhara will be part of Mossgreen’s Fine Jewels & Watches Silver & Objet Verdu auction from 6.30pm Monday November 16 at 926-930 High Street, Armadale.

The Sadri family purchased the diamond in 1939 from Emir’s son Pulat Alimi who had fled from the Soviet Union to East Turkestan after the Bolshevics ousted his father in 1923.

A George III sterling silver tea urn bearing the Rt Hon Alexander Baring arms (1774-1864) – first Baron Ashburton – is another important auction piece.

A superb George III silver epergne, made in 1762 by London silversmiths Lewis Herne & Francis Butty, will undoubtedly bring silver collectors out of the woodwork when Kim’s Auctions offers its first item for sale from 11am Sunday November 15 at 329 Warrigal Road, Burwood.

The epergne has been engraved with the Durrant arms for Sir Thomas Durrant of Scottow – who in 1784 was created a baronet, the year he served as High Sheriff of Norfolk.