The first American flag believed to have been planted on Omaha Beach in northern France on D-Day proved […]

A Chinese musical automaton clock sailed over the £1m mark when it came up for sale at the […]

A clock made for King William and Queen Mary by Thomas Tompion (1639-1713) was hammered down for £1.6m […]

With an infamous lack of a ‘signature’ look, Northern Irish painter Colin Middleton (1910-83) is something of an […]

Topping by some way an offering of 300 pieces of jewellery at Lyon & Turnbull’s (25% buyer’s premium) […]

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 […]