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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ATG letter: Third things first – it’s a William not a George
08 July 2024At the risk of sounding pedantic, the coin illustrated on the Back Page (ATG No 2651) regarding Tim Millett’s book on engraved coins is a coin of William III (not George III), so some hundred years earlier than stated.
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Elvis Presley’s blue suede shoes make £95,000 at auction
05 July 2024The size 10½ shoes were worn on the Steve Allen Show in 1956 and carried an estimate of £100,000-120,000.
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Bidders go mad for Freddie Mercury’s winkle-picker shoes
04 July 2024The black leather lace-up shoes with pointed toes worn for 1991 music video ‘I’m Going Slightly Mad’.
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Medals from an Anzac war hero take 30 times top estimate at auction
04 July 2024How the personal story of an Anzac war hero boosted the value of a common group of medals offered at auction to 30 times the top estimate.
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Newcastle United FA Cup winner’s medal sells for £7800
03 July 2024The medal which was awarded 100 years ago was sold at Newcastle auction house Anderson & Garland
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First naval Victoria Cross of the First World War comes to London saleroom
02 July 2024The first naval Victoria Cross of the First World War is coming to auction as part of an extensive collection on offer at London saleroom Noonans on July 23.
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Rare 18th century Neapolitan crèche figures take off at auction and fly back to Napoli
01 July 2024Arriving in boxes, a quantity of Italian Nativity figures were delivered to Anna Evans, head of sale and specialist at south London saleroom Roseberys, with Christie’s lot labels dated 1982 still attached.
Books and works on paper auction calendar, July 3-31, 2024
01 July 2024Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works and paper sales
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Mystery writer's musings on meteorites prove a big hit at auction
01 July 2024Hammer falls at 24 times the top estimate as Scandinavian buyer snaps up highly unusual collection
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Wheellock from French king’s famed collection comes to US saleroom
01 July 2024A wheellock sporting arm from the renowned Cabinet d’Armes of King Louis XIII (1601-43) is for sale at Rock Island Auction Company (RIAC) from August 23-25.
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Photographer Deakin captured the Soho social whirl
01 July 2024Wirral-born photographer John Deakin (1912-72) is best-known for his uncompromisingly honest portraits of the Soho art scene of the 1950s and 60s.
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Bidders fired up for exceptional flintlock
01 July 2024A flintlock duck gun hailed as exceptional by Olympia Auctions fully lived up to its billing when it shot past an estimate of £60,000-80,000 to hammer down at £380,000 on June 26.
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Defaced coins tell their own story at election time
01 July 2024BADA dealer Timothy Millett, a specialist in historical medals and related works of art, says today’s election debates have nothing on an 18th century hustings.
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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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Camus classic written in poverty takes six-figure sum
01 July 2024In a private collection since it was last sold in 1991, one of only two known autograph manuscripts by author and journalist Albert Camus of his masterpiece L’Etranger was sold by Tajan (23/20/12% buyer’s premium) in Paris on June 5.
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Automatic peeler with lots of appeal
01 July 2024Over 100 patents for mechanical apple parers were granted in the US between 1850-90.
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Innovative Earth design ready for assembly
01 July 2024Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of 20th century USA’s most prominent architects, inventors and designers.
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Marx makes a dedication in Das Kapital
01 July 2024The Rare Books sale at Ketterer Kunst (25/20/19% buyer’s premium) in Hamburg on May 27 included this first edition dedication copy of Das Kapital (1867).
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Shakespeare’s First Folio lands in Tasmania
29 June 2024London rare book dealer Peter Harrington sold the copy to an edgy Australian museum
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Elaborate Italian Renaissance armour emerges for public auction
28 June 2024Elaborate Italian Renaissance armour emerges for public auction
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