Ceramics commemorating the coronation of Edward VIII are less rare than often supposed, having been produced in abundance […]

Featuring in the same two-day auction as a £7000 cache of Beatrix Potter ephemera found in a Cumbrian […]

Uncut and partially unopened, a truly exceptional presentation copy of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species… sold […]

Bearing a thumbprint on the title-page – along with a note by a secretary, Susan Macey, witnessing it […]

The force was strong with a sale of Star Wars toys at Hansons of Derbyshire last week as […]

Pictured here is the front page of the scarce second issue of Dandy, published in January 1937, along […]

A portrait by Spanish master Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) last recorded in 1724 is to be offered with a […]

Research shows the number of people under age 45 buying antiques has risen Radhika Sanghani recounts filling her […]

Two studies by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones for his 1868 oil Hymenaeus will soon be reunited with the […]

A consignment of furniture from the medieval Eastington Hall, Worcestershire, boosted Chorley’s (20% buyer’s premium) latest sale in […]

More of a curiosity than a clock but a decorator’s dream, a life-size caricature of a smiling Chinese […]

Mallams (20% buyer’s premium) offered 12 impeccably provenanced pieces by Peter Waals (1870-1937) at Oxford on May 23. […]

A set of the monumental ‘Description de l’Égypte…’ in its specially made case was sold last month in […]

A lock of Ludwig van Beethoven’s hair that was “evidently given” by the great composer to the pianist […]

Bid to a much higher than expected $23,000 (£17,970) in a Massachusetts auction was the signed photograph of […]

Two astronomical works dating from the 17th century were among the more successful works in a recent German […]

Inscribed by Winston Churchill “…For Mrs Johnston in these great days”, a 1941 (second) edition of ‘Into Battle’, […]

A ‘colossal and extraordinary grotesque grinning crab’ by the Martin Brothers that sold at auction last year has […]