Classic Cars, Motorcycles & Automobilia
Classic cars and motorcycles can include any models dating back to the development of the modern automobile at the end of the 19th century. Vintage models are often desirable due to their design as well as engineering with cars by the likes of Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Mecedes-Benz regularly commanding high prices at auction.
In addition to the vehicles themselves, automobilia is a popular collecting area and categories include items such as petrol pumps, enamel signs and car badges. Radiator mascots, particularly the highly-recognisable designs by René Lalique in the 1920s and 30s, are particularly sought after.
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Stork flew from planes to cars
02 May 2022Top price among a selection of car mascots offered in Newcastle came for a design in honour of the French aviator George Guynemer.
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Monaco Deco design
02 May 2022French illustrator Robert Falcucci (1900-89) was famous for his graphic works of the Art Deco era – particularly the Monaco Grand Prix posters.
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Archer car mascot points way to luxury
02 May 2022Ewbank’s (24% buyer’s premium) held a dedicated Cars, Motorbikes, Scooters & Automobilia auction on December 2 in Send, Woking.
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Herry motors on at Antikbar
02 May 2022This London Transport poster for the Motor Show that took place from October 17-26, 1935, in Olympia, west London, was designed by Heather Perry – known as Herry Perry (1897-1962). It was printed by The Dangerfield Printing Co, London.
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Heuer helps rally timing
02 May 2022Described by Bonhams (15% buyer’s premium) as “the ultimate in rally equipment from the 1960s”, a pair of stopwatches mounted on an original Heuer plate intended to be attached to the dashboard of a racing or rally car received a suitably enthusiastic response.
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Lalique mascots add a touch of glass
02 May 2022Lyon & Turnbull notes that while mascots made no functional contribution to a car, they “certainly added style, and generally have fared better over time than the cars to which they were mounted”.
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Automobilia and petroliana: Pump action at auction
02 May 2022While classic, vintage and antique cars have a sizeable collecting market, the wider worlds of automobilia and petroliana also attract dedicated enthusiasts with plenty of auctions featuring a variety of lots.
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Car badges make a statement at auction
02 May 2022Charterhouse (25% buyer’s premium) has been holding auctions of classic cars, motorcycles and automobilia for nearly 20 years.
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Plea to help find stolen René Lalique car mascot
03 March 2022A dealer whose René Lalique car mascot was stolen from a fair is offering a reward for its return.
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Toys & collectables: Mini drivers power into saleroom
31 January 2022Pedal cars are regular visitors to salerooms but rarer powered versions were also produced for children to use, partly for road safety training
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Cars of a fine vintage offered at auction in the south of France
08 November 2021A collection of vintage cars that have been stored in untouched condition in the cave of a wine grower/collector are coming up for auction at Ivoire Nîmes in southern France on November 16.
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The Ford Escort – a fairytale gift
05 July 2021This Ford Escort once owned by Diana, Princess of Wales, has been bought by a museum in Chile.
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Automobilia: Dominions sign gets into gear
04 January 2021Petrol-themed enamel signs do not get much better than that made to promote British Dominions Empire Motor Insurance in c.1912.
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British Dominion: rare petrol pump globe makes £23,000 at Richard Edmonds
16 November 2020Every collector of glass petrol pump globes – or lenses as they are known in the US – hopes to own examples by the classic big brands: BP, Shell, Esso and the like.
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Pump action in Wiltshire
20 April 2020Richard Edmonds (20% buyer’s premium) in Chippenham, Wiltshire, has sold some very rare British petrol pump globes in the past year – including a globe for the little-known brand Dominion (£13,000 in November).
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The web shop window: a 1932 classic British motorcycle
23 March 2020Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
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Bonhams expands in Germany with new classic car auction
03 March 2020Auction house Bonhams has picked The Schloss Dyck Classic Days Festival as the location for a new classic car auction in Germany.
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Headlamps go for glamour at West Sussex sale
17 February 2020According to patent documents dated February 1928, Woodlite headlamps invented by a William G Woods of Los Angeles were said to give the driver better illumination of distant objects ahead.
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Art Deco headlamps, rare Pelham puppet, portrait of an artist’s daughter – five auction highlights that caught bidders’ eyes in the last week
31 January 2020ATG’s selection of hammer highlights this week includes a portrait by Victorian artist John Bagnold Burgess of his daughter and a pair of Woodlite headlamps that both made over 10-times estimate.
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Bidders warm to rare globes
18 November 2019Bringing the highest price yet at one of Richard Edmonds’ (20% buyer’s premium) specialist Petroliana and Automobilia sales in Chippenham was a rare petrol pump globe.
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