Collectables

The Coinex extravaganza brings out the big guns of the UK numismatics trade alongside continental European dealers.

This Second World War Distinguished Conduct Medal group of five was awarded to Serjeant John Chapman of the 4th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Spink will conduct the Official Coinex Auction on September 28.

The latest edition of the Coin Yearbook is published this month.

As co-publishers and editors of Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine established in 1991, Robin and Kathryn Smiley’s bookshelves were brimming with choice first editions from across the broad span of British and American literature.

Among the highlights of The Premier Sale at St James’s Auctions on September 27 is this Battle of Culloden gold commemorative medal.

The Book of Sports by Robin Carver is considered the first American publication to describe the sport of baseball.

Massive ornamental hair combs such as this are associated with the East Sumbanese people of modern Indonesia.

Sensational was the only word for it.

An 18th century copy of Tikkunei Shabbat (an amalgam of Hebrew prayers and devotions for the Sabbath) sold for £57,000 to an international phone bidder at Hansons on September 5.

The PBFA (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in style next year with two new fairs: in Bath and Tunbridge Wells.

A timed online sale of sporting memorabilia that closed on August 27 at Graham Budd was topped by a photocard of Cuthbert J Ottaway (1850-78).

A special selection of upcoming auction lots

The earliest book on the boy wizard continues to entrance collectors

“I get loads and loads of emails and calls all the time from people whose eyes have lit up when they see those words ‘first edition’…”

Robert Weaver, a teacher and keeper of the Fellows’ Library at Dulwich College in south London, has collected medieval manuscript fragments for close to 50 years

Sporting specialist saleroom highlights include wicket-keeping gloves, bat and even a soup tureen

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions running on thesaleroom.com

While the rare book trade is steadily becoming more diverse, challenges still exist, as four newer members of the Forum Auctions team in London tell ATG

An ex-fashion buyer book lover turned bookbinder is one of the stallholders at Home and Vintage Living, organised by Jules Langley.