Collectables
The term ‘collectables’ (or collectibles) encompasses a vast range of items in fields as diverse as arms, armour and militaria, bank notes, cameras, coins, entertainment and sporting memorabilia, stamps, taxidermy, wines and writing equipment.
Some collectables are antiques, others are classed as retro, vintage or curios but all are of value to the collector. In any of these fields, buyers seek out rarities and items with specific associations.
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Film poster on offer could bring a Fonda memory of Barbarella
22 July 2024Roger Vadim’s cult classic film 'Barbarella' starring Jane Fonda was released in 1968.
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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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Olympic Games posters that feature innovative design
22 July 2024The 1968 Mexico Summer Olympics were the first Games to be staged in Latin America.
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Posters created as political expression in Communist-run Poland
22 July 2024Roman Cieślewicz (1930-96) and Jan Lenica (1928-2001) were both founders of the Polish School of Posters, the influential and creative artistic movement that sprang up under strict Soviet rule.
ATG letter: Imperforate Penny for your thoughts
22 July 2024Further to your report on the extremely rare Plate 77 Penny Red, offered for sale at a tempting £650,000 (News Digest, ATG No 2652), it might be of interest to readers who are neither philatelists, nor postal historians, to note that it was the imperforate Penny Red which replaced the Penny Black in February 1841, not the perforated Penny Red, like the example illustrated.
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Best of British posters: classic film designs beyond Bond
22 July 2024A preserved and framed collection with a great provenance dispersed at auction showed the wider strength of a market often dominated by the familiar stars
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Key Mormon work was taken in the spirit intended
22 July 2024First edition of key Mormon work lists Joseph Smith as ‘author and proprietor’ of text not ‘translator’
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Fragmented figures at the double
22 July 2024Carved wooden sculptural fragments are a market strength.
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Jack B Yeats fired his broadsides with help of Irish private press
22 July 2024The Fonsie Mealy Chatsworth Summer Rare Books & Collectables Sale on July 30-31 includes a private collection of works by Jack B Yeats, The Cuala Press and modern Irish and English literature.
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James II silver medal commemorating a 1687 shipwreck recovery is buoyant at auction
19 July 2024A rare James II and Queen Mary of Modena silver medal by George Bowers, commemorating a Spanish shipwreck recovered in 1687 was auctioned at Toovey's in West Sussex 'Coins, Medallions & Banknotes' auction on July 17.
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Crouch and Harrington set to exhibit at the Melbourne Rare Book Fair
19 July 2024Detailed accounts from colonial settlers and a trove of radical erotica are just some of the offerings at Australia's rare book bonanza
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Titanic interest: Rare White Star Line notice to Olympic passengers and a Carpathia bronze medal steam ahead at auction
18 July 2024Duke's Summer Auction in Dorchester featured a remarkable notice issued by the White Star Line to passengers on board the RMS Olympic after the sinking of its sister ship, the Titanic.
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1908 Olympic marathon steward medal flies past estimate
17 July 2024A collection of steward medals and badges were offered as a single lot, but it was the 1908 Olympic marathon steward medal that had bidders jostling
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Musket ball from Battle of Waterloo aims for auction glory
17 July 2024Bidders are already fired up for this intriguing relic
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Seven-foot narwhal tusk takes £7500
16 July 2024Sale in Hampshire may be one of the final sales of such an item before new legislation takes force
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Hey Diddle Diddle – the toy bid over the moon
16 July 2024The range of nursery rhyme and sporting figures made by Phillip Segal Toys are among the most desirable of all hollowcast lead ‘civilians’.
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Taxidermy of extinct New Zealand birds set to fly at auction
16 July 2024A display of huia birds from New Zealand will find its way to Moreton-in-Marsh on July 25
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Poetry work that awakened the genius of John Keats
15 July 2024Only 29 books from the library of John Keats are recorded - among them a 1679 printing of the collected works of the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser given to him by the artist Joseph Severn (1793-1879).
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More Suffragette hunger strike medals appear at auction
15 July 2024A medal awarded to a Suffragette for going on hunger strike hammered down for £17,000 on June 7 at Bonhams (plus 28% buyer’s premium).
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Market for distinctive Neapolitan Nativity figures is full of life
15 July 2024Bumper collection of the 18th century creations sold at auction 42 years ago re-emerges in south London
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