Collectables
The term ‘collectables’ (or collectibles) encompasses a vast range of items in fields as diverse as arms, armour and militaria, bank notes, cameras, coins, entertainment and sporting memorabilia, stamps, taxidermy, wines and writing equipment.
Some collectables are antiques, others are classed as retro, vintage or curios but all are of value to the collector. In any of these fields, buyers seek out rarities and items with specific associations.
Liverpool hero’s gold medal from Titanic rescue offered at Buckinghamshire auction
18 July 2018A gold medal awarded to the bursar on board the RMS Carpathia, the ship that famously rescued survivors from the Titanic in 1912, will be offered at Bourne End Auction Rooms this summer.
5 highlights from single-owner sale of early English books at Skinner in Boston
18 July 2018US auction house Skinner is holding a single-owner sale devoted to early English books in their Boston rooms.
Dealer offers first American edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to mark 200th anniversary
17 July 2018A first edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is among the Brontë books being offered by rare bookseller Peter Harrington to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Emily Brontë on July 30.
The £30 bottle once thought to be fake is now the real auction deal at £18,000
16 July 2018A Yorkshire collector who bought what he thought was a replica antique bottle at a fair for just £30 has sold it for a hammer price of £18,000 at auction after discovering it really was from the 17th century.
Medal fair free to exhibit under new owner
16 July 2018London saleroom Dix Noonan Webb has bought the 'Britannia Medal Fair' “to ensure that it can remain at the Victory Services Club”, the central London venue where it has attracted dealers and collectors for more than 30 years.
Pick of the week: Hours and centuries of famous owners
16 July 2018Estimated at £200,000-300,000, the 'Hours of Isabella d’Este' sold at £340,000 (plus buyer’s premium) at Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures on July 10.
White-glove sale for agriculture library at Forum Auctions
16 July 2018A white-glove sale of a 3000-book agriculture library reached a hammer total of £1.76m over two days at Forum Auctions last week.
Wiltshire sale will be heaven for helixophiles
16 July 2018A collection of more than 400 corkscrews assembled over 40 years by an “old-school connoisseur” is to be auctioned at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes.
'Hundred Acre Wood' map leads way to book illustration auction record
16 July 2018The original drawing of the map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s 'Hundred Acre Wood' sold for £350,000 (plus 25/20/12% buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s sale of English Literature, History, Science, Children’s Books and Illustration on July 9-10.
Donne with George Eliot extra
16 July 2018A copy of the posthumously published, 1633 first edition of John Donne’s Poems in a neatly rebacked but contemporary sheep binding is a desirable volume in itself.
How to create Harry Potter price magic
16 July 2018There were two 1997, first-impression copies of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in the June 21 sale held by Bonhams.
Ornithological work that caused a big flap in Edinburgh auction
16 July 2018One of a collection of ornithological and other natural history works from a country house library offered in an Edinburgh sale was a scarce, complete copy of a work that created a bitter fall-out between author and illustrator.
Grand Prix car in garden shed
16 July 2018Found in a garden shed during a house clearance, this unrestored version of a classic c.1950 pedal car, below, attracted bidders online, on the phones and in the Wolverhampton rooms of Cuttlestones (17.5% buyer’s premium) on June 22.
Playing cards from 1830s appear at Suffolk sale
16 July 2018Issued by ‘Hunt & Sons, Card Makers to His Majesty’, a ‘Great Mogul’ deck of playing cards of c.1830, the labels that seal the packaging still unbroken after all those years, featured in a recent Suffolk sale.
British and Irish book auctions: July 17-28, 2018
16 July 2018ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from July 17-28, 2018.
Vintage pens from Switzerland to Japan are scripted for San Francisco auction
14 July 2018US West Coast auction firm PBA Galleries is holding its first sale dedicated to writing instruments in its San Francisco rooms on July 19.
Soviet spy camera disguised as fag packet sells for £29,000 house record at Dudley auction
12 July 2018The cost of smoking is going crazy – someone has just paid £29,000 for a packet of cigarettes in the West Midlands.
Menu signed by all four Beatles from a flight when getting high was the refreshment
12 July 2018Reporter: “Well John, how was the trip over, did you all get bored on the flight, or did you have things to keep you entertained, that y’all were doing?” John Lennon: ‘Well, err, we all got stoned.”
Congress for rare book trade set for London in November
11 July 2018The Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA) has released details of the 40th Annual Conference on Book Trade History.
Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood makes auction record at Sotheby’s
11 July 2018The original drawing of the map of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood by EH Shepard has been sold for a hammer price of £350,000, setting an auction record for a book illustration.
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