Collectables

Bonhams conducts a sale in New York on October 6 titled Wonders in Wallpaper.

Generating a hammer price of £165,000, the star attraction in Omega’s auction on September 27 was pretty obvious.

A wider interest in kitchen-related antiques sparked a specialist collection

Early views of the city now known as Kolkata reveal 19th development under empire

A pair of 19th century globes by the Newton family is on offer from FE Anderson of Welshpool at the Chester Decorative Antiques & Art Fair.

Boasting what have been described as the first accurate anatomical illustrations of the foetus in utero among its 39 engraved plates, a 1761, second edition of William Smellie’s 'Sett of Anatomical Tables… of the Practice of Midwifery' was one of the highlights of an online-only Forum (25/20/12.5% buyers premium) sale of September 15.

Very much the star turn in a Philadelphia sale of September 21 was an extremely rare copy of 'New Englands First Fruits…', a small quarto work, running to just 26pp, that was printed and published in London in 1643.

From jukeboxes to robotic bands, a comprehensive collection was on offer in Pennsylvania.

A selection of eight upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

The first civilian Victoria Cross of just five to be awarded has sold for an auction record hammer price of £750,000 at London saleroom Noonans.

The Lacy Scott & Knight Music, Film & Sport Memorabilia auction on September 16 included over 40 lots consigned by singer and 1970s rock band Cockney Rebel frontman Steve Harley.

Two albums of photographs taken by fellow cricketer and friend pitch in at four-figure sum.

Examples from the UK and Commonwealth featuring the late queen make mementoes.

Inscribed to her husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, the dedication copy of the first and only collection of Sylvia Plath’s verses to be published in her lifetime, The Colossus and other Poems, sold for a record £75,000.

The latest in a series of auctions to draw on the private library of one of the more prominent antiquarian book dealers of his generation, William S Reese (1955-2018), ran from September 1-14 at Christie’s New York (26/20/14.5% buyer’s premium).

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Davidson Auctions in Annadale, New South Wales, Australia, is dispersing the contents of the Leuralla Toy and Railway Museum.