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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Cigarette card lights up Reading auction
30 August 2024A c.1912 cigarette card showing baseball pitcher Rube Marquard was given a ballpark estimate of £300-500 at Loddon Auctions.
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Boer War tropical pith helmet fights the good fight at Edinburgh Auction
29 August 2024Thomson Roddick Callan (20% buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh held a mammoth two day sale on August 14-15, featuring nearly 1400 lots of antiques and militaria from the Michael Hall of Galashiels Collection.
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Babe Ruth’s ‘called shot’ New York Yankees jersey sets record for any sporting collectable
28 August 2024The 1932 World Series jersey sold at Heritage Auctions for $24.1m, setting a new high for any piece of sporting memorabilia
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Gun from Louis XIII’s famous cabinet sets a record for a wheellock firearm at auction
28 August 2024Result reflects quality and provenance of the remarkable weapon from a renowned collection
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Would you believe it? Rare Billy Nicholls LP appears at auction
27 August 2024'Would You Believe' was geared up to be Britain’s response to 'Pet Sounds' by The Beach Boys but was instead shelved
Books and works on paper auction calendar, August 28-September 11, 2024
27 August 2024Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales
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Boxing clever for the Aubreys saleroom debut in Surrey
27 August 2024The inaugural Aubreys (25% buyer’s premium) live auction was held in the grounds of Loseley Park in Guildford.
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Early Australia takes shape: maps sold at auction in Melbourne
27 August 2024Seventeenth and 18th century maps sold in Melbourne auction show how much discoveries had revealed
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Pick of the Week: Not Braveheart but Brucehead…
27 August 2024Long before the American/Australian actor Mel Gibson gladdened Scottish hearts with the woad-splattered film Braveheart, the early 19th century was an awakening for Caledonian identity.
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Captain must have made a packet to live in a Falmouth house that grand
27 August 2024Two religious works were among an intriguing archive of items relating to a famed Falmouth packet ship commander and family that impressed at Lay’s (21% buyer’s premium) auction in Lanner, Cornwall, on August 8.
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Medal gave thanks for Titanic rescue mission
27 August 2024Noonans’ (24% buyer’s premium) sale in London on July 17 offered a rare Carpathia and Titanic bronze medal.
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Ombersley Court library to be sold at Chorley’s
26 August 2024Gloucestershire saleroom Chorley’s will offer works from the library from Ombersley Court in Worcestershire, seat of the Sandys family for 400 years, at auction next month.
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Late 19th century Polar exploration programme breaks the ice at auction
23 August 2024A remarkable late Victorian lecture programme on early polar exploration by the Norwegian explorer Dr Fridtjof Nansen has been discovered at Chaucer Auctions in Folkestone.
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Unpublished Muhammad Ali photographs and film to be auctioned in Wiltshire
22 August 2024A series of unpublished photographs and film reel of Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) for a 1971 advert for a non-alcoholic beverage will be offered at RWB Auctions on September 11.
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Hats off to Indiana Jones after famous fedora makes $500,000
21 August 2024The famous hat was one of many props from blockbuster films to appear at Propstore’s August auction
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Air hostess' autographs collected onboard Concorde take off at auction
20 August 2024Concorde’s capability to fly at twice the speed of sound and travel from London to New York in three hours attracted the rich and famous of the time.
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Export bar placed on Alan Turing’s unpublished Second World War papers
20 August 2024A remarkable archive of newly discovered scientific papers by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing and his collaborator Donald Bayley has been temporarily blocked from export.
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Bidders find their marbles at auction in East Sussex
19 August 2024A lot catalogued as ‘Vintage toys, including marbles, rifle, Marklin spinners and butterflies, etc’ that appeared in a Burstow & Hewett auction estimated at £40-70 rolled out a surprise.
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Manuscript copy of Leonardo da Vinci treatise tops third Brooker sale
19 August 2024Treatise about painting was a unique version among pre-publication copies thanks to the drawings
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Barrie Lewis biscuit tins up for grabs in Glasgow
19 August 2024On August 28, Glasgow auction house McTear’s is conducting a single-owner, single-subject sale titled The Art of the Biscuit Tin: The Lewis Collection.
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