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Sought-after signatures include Queen star and a Saudi king
22 July 2024A landlord and tenancy agreement signed by Freddie Mercury in 1986 was among the highlights of the Autographs and Memorabilia at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium).
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Personal signed Churchill letter to his old teacher adds up to £14,000
01 July 2024“You were the only person who ever succeeded in teaching me mathematics or indeed - let me add - in making me work at anything that did not excite my interest. I regard my work at mathematics under your care as the most salutary mental discipline I ever received.”
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Shackleton’s farewell from South Georgia
13 May 2024A letter from Ernest Shackleton to a supporter, written from South Georgia on the eve of his final departure on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, was offered at Charles Miller’s (24% buyer’s premium) latest Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art sale.
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Auction buy set to shed light on Jane Austen
29 April 2024A 78-page manuscript bought at a Bonhams auction could help to shed light on author Jane Austen.
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Churchill letter on o-fish-al business
29 April 2024Nelson and Napoleon are just two of the historical figures to have collecting markets devoted to themselves. Another is Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965).
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B for Byron: letter of apology
29 April 2024Found in a country house in Gloucestershire, this letter written by Lord Byron (1788-1824) to Major John Cartwright (1740-1824) sold for £6000 at Chorley’s (28.2% buyer’s premium inc VAT) on March 20.
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Thanks for keeping my Scottish regalia safe, Charles
01 April 2024This letter signed by Charles II was written in September 1660, mere months after the restoration of the monarchy.
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Signatures provide a roll call of British PMs from Robert Walpole to Rishi
11 March 2024A private collection comprising the signatures of every one of Britain’s prime ministers sold for £8000 as part of a designated timed online sale of Autographs and Memorabilia.
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De Medici letter reveals Pope appointment plot
04 March 2024This single-sheet letter was written by Catherine de Medici (1519-89) to the ambassador to Spain.
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Letters from 1901 Antarctic explorers show warm feelings for their earlier hosts in New Zealand
26 February 2024A long-forgotten group of letters written by senior members of Scott and Shackleton’s first trailblazing 1901 expedition to the Antarctic has been discovered.
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Mail recovered from Titanic casualty
19 February 2024The British and US postal clerks aboard transatlantic liners had the duty of sorting the mail during the passage.
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Original watercolour for Little Prince makes top price among an array of manuscripts and letters
29 January 2024An original watercolour of the 'Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry fetched nearly 10 times its low estimate, selling for a record £240,000 hammer.
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Forster’s letters and books to the policeman he loved
02 January 2024Letters and books marking the deep relationship between author EM Forster and policeman Bob Buckingham and his family sold for £9000.
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Fascinating Fleetwood Mac material reveals the road to stardom
02 January 2024Fleetwood Mac are famous for the huge-selling Rumours album that propelled the band to superstardom but the original line-up and sound were very different.
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Turing and Bayley in tandem as scientific archive comes to the saleroom
18 December 2023Newly discovered papers show how renowned mathematician and his collaborator worked hand in hand
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Brilliant minds Leibniz and Wotton bring brilliant price
11 December 2023Letter from German mathematician to English scholar takes £14,000 in Edinburgh saleroom
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Shipshape $7000 surprise
04 December 2023A group of letters sent from a clipper ship captain in Shanghai during the Second Opium War (1856-60) to his sons in the Charlestown area of Boston resounded with bidders at Merrill’s Auctioneers (21% buyer’s premium) in Williston, Vermont on November 3.
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Most famous novelist of her day – now hardly known
04 December 2023Top-selling lot in Halls’ (24% buyer’s premium) books and manuscripts sale on November 15 was a collection of 14 letters written by the Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) between 1818-31.
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Drawing by young Elizabeth II failed to impress her mother
13 November 2023The October 18-19 sale at Everard Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in Savannah, Georgia, featured manuscripts, photos and ephemera focused on European royalty.
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Man of letters: correspondence from famous figures
30 October 2023A collection of correspondence penned by leading figures of the 20th century to an Oxford academic raised more than £20,000 for charity at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) on October 10.
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