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 […]

A Chinese parcel gilt bronze censer, that was being used to hold tennis balls when first seen by […]

The sale of a remarkable gramophone collection two years ago at the Cotswold Auction Company (20% buyer’s premium), […]

A nose cone from the supersonic Concorde plane is coming to auction in Northamptonshire. Extracted from Antiques Trade […]

The very first original cover art featuring comic character Tintin has sold at auction in the US for […]

An impressive 8in (20cm) high ice pail, cover and liner made what is thought to be a record […]

Vincent van Gogh died from a gunshot wound in the summer of 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise in the south […]

A maquette for the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in London’s Tavistock Square – valued at £20,000 on the […]

On July 2 Sotheby’s will hold the first of a four-part series of sales to disperse an important […]

The series of Victorian carriage clocks by James McCabe – the son of a Belfast clockmaker of the […]

In the week marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings a poignant medal was sold at auction […]

Included in Weiss Auctions’ sale in Lynbrook, New York, on June 26 is this British Waterloo Medal for […]