Collectables

Around 750 lots of comics featured in a May 10-11 auction held by Anderson & Garland (25% Buyer’s Premium) of Newcastle.

A huge plan used during the British Titanic inquiry was the top lot of Henry Aldridge & Son’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest auction dedicated to Titanic, White Star and Transport memorabilia.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

The Abacus sale on June 28-30 in Melbourne will feature an eclectic mix of material.

Charlotte Corday was the woman who assassinated the French Revolutionary journalist and politician Jean-Paul Marat.

London’s two big book events running simultaneously reveal major sales with visitors to Firsts up by a third.

Collector and author bought pieces for their historical interest as well as beauty

The Stuttgart Rare Book Fair, Germany’s leading fair for the rare book and prints trade, is returning after the pandemic for an anniversary event from June 16-18.

One of the overseas dealers who will be showing at The Pagoda for Printemps Asiatique Paris is the UK dealer Runjeet Singh.

A Panticapaeum gold stater, struck in present day Crimea c.350-300BC, has regained the rank of the world’s most expensive classical coin.

Leading the sale at Dominic Winter on May 17 was a highly unusual Elizabethan manuscript treatise on cheese and cheese making.

Peter Harrington Rare Books has sold a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio with an asking price of £6.25m.

Fresh-thinking range of furniture features in a four-day auction showcasing modern design styles

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online.

‘Sherlockian scholar’ is the term Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) uses to describe Robert Hess.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

The Oak Interior sale at Bishop & Miller in Stowmarket on June 1-2 includes this ‘important and exceptional’ Edward IV bronze measure.

The 33 pieces of ‘Mouseman’ furniture on offer at Carlisle auction house Thomson Roddick (20% buyer’s premium) all came from a Cumbrian Georgian country house where they had been since at least before 1950.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.