Collectables

The pictorial enamel signs advertising Webb’s Seeds of Stourbridge are some of the most popular on the market.

Morris works and Sangorski & Sutcliffe bindings stand out in single-owner collection

In terms of improvement on expectations, the most successful lot at a Ketterer Kunst (25% buyer’s premium) sales earlier this year comprised early 19th century paper-cuts.

Two unpublished diaries sold in Sweden related to Salomon August Andrée’s ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.

In the mid 1930s players making an England debut could receive a gold commemorative medal instead of their normal match fee.

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Eight phone bidders competed for this splendid ebony and pietra dura table casket offered at a recent auction at Claydon Auctioneers in Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire.

One of the finest European railway toy collections built in the US generated a suitably enthusiastic response when it came to auction.

A silver sale at Woolley & Wallis (25/12% buyer’s premium) this summer included a selection of 24 snuff boxes from the Lion collection – as published in 'British Silver Boxes 1640-1840, The Lion Collection' (2015).

Armenian manuscript demolishes estimate to take six figures in London saleroom

What was billed as ‘the finest Matchbox collection to be auctioned in recent years’ was offered at Vectis (20% buyer’s premium) in the spring.

A richly illuminated leaf from a late 15th century manuscript account of the life of St Catherine sold at a high-estimate £30,000 at Bloomsbury Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).

This Doll et Cie four-seater open touring car toy, c.1920s, is a live-steam model made in Germany.

Published in 1862, one exceptional lot in a Californian sale that focused on food and drink was billed as “The Canonical Text in Bartending”.

Bid to £1500 in a Norfolk sale was a 1930 first of The Savoy Cocktail Book.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Demand for anything to do with Concorde is always high but a huge ‘museum quality’ model at Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) had an extra touch.

A tinplate model of the Alfa Romeo P2 sped past a £500-1000 estimate to take £4600 at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) auction in Dorchester.

Toys from the private collection of Sue Pearson, the UK’s leading dealer in antique and vintage teddy bears and soft toys, were offered in Newbury.