Collectables

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

The contents of a small London museum devoted to Victorian poets Robert Browning (1812-89) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) sold for just under £100,000 at auction in Essex.

A collection of pop culture ephemera and football memorabilia found in a Cotswold bungalow was offered across 390 lots at auction.

The Chaworth Roll, a 14th century genealogy of the kings of England that includes the second-earliest recorded road map of the country, is on offer at TEFAF Maastricht this week.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

The next PBFA online book fair goes live on June 29 with a wide range of dealers exhibiting.

An early 19th century German Grodnertal doll sold for £2500 (estimate £600-800) in Tennants’ (22% buyers premium) Costume, Accessories and Textiles Sale on May 28.

These two oak boarded chests, made to similar techniques four centuries apart, were offered for sale recently.

A collection from three actors will be offered in Los Angeles this month.

Dramatic rescue of 1916 was recorded visually by the polar explorer two years later

The thirties became a period when mass production and Art Deco style combined to power cars to new heights of usage and popularity before war intervened

Bid to £4000 – 10 times low estimate – in a May 18 sale held by Tennants (22% buyer’s premium) of Leyburn were two albums of what were defined as grotesque-style caricature portraits.

A selection of lots relating to vehicles opens Poster Auctions International’s sale in New York on July 12.

Treasures from the Melvin ‘Pete’ Mark Jnr Collection, a Heritage (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) auction in Dallas that ended on May 7, presented a remarkable range of material.

The world record for a car sold at auction was broken last month when a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé was hammered down for €135m (£112m) on May 5.

This Superman Krypto-Raygun is a vintage projector toy that allows the user to flash picture stories onto the wall.

Bid to £2800 via thesaleroom.com in a Forum Auctions (25/20/12.5% buyer’ premium) sale of May 5 was this seemingly very rare broadside published in London by James Catnach.

The vendor of this 1966 Mercedes W111 250 SE Auto Coupé won it in a competition.

This exciting 1968 Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA 1300 emerged for auction at Tennants (10% buyer’s premium).