Collectables

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions held via thesaleroom.com

Hindman in Chicago will offer a complete copy of Edward S Curtis’ seminal work The North American Indian as part of an auction of Fine Books from the Dorros Family Collection on November 9.

Concept drawings by John Orfe (1922-2011), an American automotive and airline designer, came for sale in Virginia.

John Eamer was a wholesale grocer who dealt in sugar imported from the West Indies. His success led to him becoming Sheriff of London in 1794.

Swann Auction Galleries’ (30% buyer’s premium) summer vintage poster sale in New York on August 3 received a significant boost from a single consignment.

The name of a new Iron Age ruler or king has been discovered on a coin dug up in a field in the Test Valley, Hampshire.

One of the largest private collections of material on the Suffragette movement will be sold next month.

A Victorian cased pair of the extinct New Zealand huia sold for £220,000 (plus 24% buyer’s premium) in Tennants’ Natural History and Taxidermy sale.

Specialist Bleasdale says his sewing antiques and Tunbridgeware timed online sales are working out well

In the 1790s a dire shortage of small copper change caused great difficulties in the small transactions of everyday life.

A copy of Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy album signed by all four members of the band sold to a phone bidder for £15,000 .

A collection of Greek coins formed over 20 years ago by a European connoisseur will be sold by Morton & Eden in London on September 26-27.

On October 3 Noonans will sell two single-owner collections.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper auctions being staged on thesaleroom.com

Australian saleroom Abacus Auctions will feature a compact but significant collection of medals formed by British expatriate Dr Cecil Walkley.

One of two texts in a single volume revealed after eager bidding to be by Hungarian Jesuit

Almost 120 years ago at 13 Bruton Street an estimated 10,000 visitors were drawn to an exhibition that caught the public attention and attracted record queues.