Collectables

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Away from London, some exceptional coin sales coming up in Europe include a number of outstanding British issues.

Dealer Silbury Coins will bring to Coinex a group of Iron Age coins.

Advertising and antique bottle supremo Alan Blakeman of BBR Auctions discovered this massive 18½in (45cm) diameter pot lid back in the early 1980s.

A recent sale in New York was led at $65,000 (£47,100) by a disbound but rare example of the work of Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-95).

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Estimated at €50,000 but sold for €405,000 (£346,275) in a sale held in Turin by was a 1482 edition of Ptolemy’s Cosmographia.

The best-performing entry of the Lindsay Burns (20% buyer’s premium) sale in Perth on July 20-22 against estimate was a militaria lot.

Only a handful of companies have created products with sufficient impact that their brand names become generic descriptions for objects of their type.

New York sale maintains run of high JK Rowling prices while Dr Seuss surfaces also in UK

The American Flyer 'G Fox & Co' boxcar is one of the “most desired trains a collector can own” according to Philip Weiss from the eponymous auction house in Lynbrook, New York.

A classic ‘barn find’ piece, this somewhat dilapidated jukebox was spotted as a potential golden oldie at Gardiner Houlgate (22% buyer’s premium).

The late songwriter/record producer Aaron Schroeder (1926-2009) built an international music-publishing network with Abby, his wife and business partner of 49 years.

Nearly 200 items of Al Capone memorabilia are coming to the market for the first time after being consigned to a California auction by his granddaughters.

George Eliot’s much-admired novel 'Middlemarch…' made its first appearance in a parts issue in 1871.

Auction Team Breker is holding its first sale of the autumn season on September 24-25 in Cologne.

This otherwise humble 1914 Star acquired great historical resonance in the knowledge it was awarded to Private John Parr of the 4th Battalion, Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment).

Along with its Summer Fine Art sale, Tennants held a jewellery, watches and silver sale on July 17.