Collectables

English Civil War group The John Hampden Society has bought a lock of hair thought to be from the head of its eponymous patron.

Estimated at just £60-80, a rare Ericsson telephone sold for £10,500 (plus 17% buyer’s premium) at Wessex Auction Rooms in Chippenham.

This blue and white enamelled musical box is be offered in a sale on June 27 at Oakridge Auction Gallery in Ashburn, Virginia.

Keeping cool was just one of the many uses of the Georgian and Victorian fan.

Long run of the comics includes very first issue introducing The Hulk, Iron Man et al

One of the key features of an online only sale held by Miller & Miller Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) in New Hamburg, Ontario, was a collection of around 100 vintage sewing machines assembled by Karl Koenig.

Dealers collaborate on catalogues – building on existing trends of pooling resources

Gibson Antiques, owned by director of FACT Alastair Gibson, is selling a collection of antique fans at auction.

MADAM – I am writing a book on the origins and makers of coquilla nut snuff boxes, a time-consuming and difficult task ideally suited to these trying times.

The vintage contents of a railway station buffet offered in East Yorkshire were not the most upmarket pieces – nothing made more than £2000 – but more than 400 people packed the room and online bids came from India, the US and Finland. It gave veteran auctioneer Andy Spicer only his second white-glove sell-out in 35 years on the rostrum.

A collection of automaton advertising panels formed by two dedicated enthusiasts over a 20-year period will go under the hammer on March 12 at Drouot in Paris in a sale mounted by Auction Art Rémy le Fur.

The arts of the Ottoman court are performing strongly in the marketplace. The unexpected highlight of Lyon & Turnbull’s Five Centuries auction in Edinburgh on February 5 was an Ottoman saddle.

Across the pond in New York, the trade kicked off the year with the major international fair The Winter Show.

International Autograph Auctions Ltd has ceased trading and is being placed in voluntary liquidation.

The latest sale at Clarks in Liskeard included a collection of walking canes collected by the late actor Edward Woodward.

The sale of furniture and decorative arts at Hindman in Chicago on February 11 includes these two late 19th century gadget canes, both mounted with the insignia of British army regiments.