First editions of all of Jane Austen’s major works featured in a sale last month held by Swann […]
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A painting by the pioneering Indian abstract artist Vasudeo S Gaitonde (1924-2001) led Sotheby’s anniversary sale of Modern […]
A poster for a gig by The Who at The Blue Moon Club in Cheltenham attracted fans at […]
A valuation day in Tunbridge Wells led to the consignment of a late-16th century south German rosewood and […]
The Crimea medal awarded to one of only two officers taken prisoner by the Russians during the calamitous […]
A First World War medal fashioned from a Mexican eight reales coin was an unusual feature of a […]
This pair of 19th century continental silver-gilt figure groups is among the objects from a Rothschild collection to […]
A copy of JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ offered in a recent Surrey sale was a first-impression one of […]
The Church of England was Geoffrey Garner’s vocation in life – collecting military badges his hobby Extracted from […]
Elizabethan silver rarely appears at auctions in continental Europe, so an upcoming collection being offered for sale at […]
Among the rarest of all Subbuteo games invented and manufactured by Peter Adolph in Tunbridge Wells are those […]
A prototype of the PlayStation has sold for $300,000 at auction in Texas. The 28-year-old gaming console, offered […]
The first specialist sale of dolls and dolls’ houses at Lacy Scott & Knight (20% buyer’s premium) of […]
A silver penny of Ludica, a virtually unknown Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia, has sold for £32,000. Extracted from […]
The best-seller lists these days will always include a good number of explosive memoirs written by special forces […]
This flag offered at East Bristol Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) carries inscriptions for HMS Swiftsure – British Pacific […]
A taxidermy Adélie penguin collected by scientists during the Terra Nova Antarctic Expedition from 1910-1913 drew strong interest […]
A pair of Chinese carved officials’ chairs offered at Ramsay Cornish (20% buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh were typical […]