Auctions

More than 150 lots of railway interest are included in the upcoming sale of the Bothwell Collection at Bonham’s.

A flying logbook, which sold in Staffordshire, is the latest in a recent flurry of militaria lots related to the Dam Busters raid.

A collection of film posters captured the attention of US bidders at a recent sale in Cardiff.

Bonhams have appointed Charles Graham-Campbell as managing director of its operations in Scotland.

George Daniels’ (1926-2011) ‘Space Travellers’ watch topped its previous auction record when it sold at Sotheby’s this week for an astronomical £3.2m.

How the 1871 Chicago fire started remains a matter of conjecture, though a lantern knocked over by a Mrs O’Leary’s cow, or perhaps by a group of men who were gambling in a barn are among the favourite theories.

Jewellery dealer SJ Phillips is to sell a selection of its wares at a Sotheby’s auction after it downsized to new premises in Mayfair earlier this year.

A collection of Maori artefacts with an unbroken provenance dating back to their acquisition by early English missionaries to New Zealand will be offered for sale at John Nicholson’s of Fernhurst on October 5.

Omega Auctions withdrew the sale of an original score for the 1966 Beatles' classic Eleanor Rigby ahead of its auction earlier this month due to a family dispute over ownership.

Sotheby’s is offering a fine painting by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) at its Old Master evening sale in December. It comes to auction with an unbroken provenance going back well over a century and is estimated at £2.5m-3.5m.

Objects and artworks from the personal collection of Claude Monet (1840-1926) will be on view in London later this month ahead of an auction in Hong Kong in November.

One of only four known copies of a ‘pre-fire’ Chicago map by cartographer J.T. Palmatary drew intense competition at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ latest sale, selling at over six-times estimate.

Model steam trains are a niche collecting area but examples which precisely match the actual engines they represent can make thousands of pounds.