Collectables

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

A cheery Retail Fruit Trade Federation 1930s poster promoting healthy breakfast food features in AntikBar’s summer exhibition The visual Impact of Nourishment in Vintage Posters.

Bonhams has closed its coin and medals department in London and specialist John Millensted will now work as a consultant to the firm.

Ninety lots from family’s Norfolk home gave a taster of the traditional items they collected

The queen’s menacing message to Protestant courtiers makes an auction appearance

Single-owner group offers 007 toys and gadgets mainly from the Sean Connery era

You reported on the front page of the ATG (No 2550) that Bonhams has added another auction house to its expanding stable.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Unknown as he is to the vast majority of people, even Americans, Button Gwinnett is certainly renowned among collectors of early US history.

On September 9-10 Morphy in Denver, Pennsylvania, will offer the Henry Krijnen collection of mechanical music and fairground instruments from the Netherlands.

Offered as part of a New York sale held by Swann (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) were the two imaginative aerial views reproduced here.

Butterscotch in New York is holding its summer estates auction on July 17.

Swann Auction Galleries is holding a sale of vintage posters in New York on August 4.

This mid-20th century illusionist apparatus will feature in Potter & Potter’s latest Magic sale when it auctions the lifetime collection of Jim Deloach in Chicago on July 16.

Almost two thousand years ago, a wealthy Roman woman would have kept her jewellery or trinkets in a cylindrical box, a so-called Pyxis. They were originally plain vessels, often made of pottery.

Swaythling auction includes more than 80 pieces of 18th century English origin

Set of charts, plans and views was published by the Admiralty for Royal Navy use

A sale held by Sotheby’s (26/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) to disperse natural history works from the library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven, contained a good many lots that brought six-figure bids, but the one featured here was one that proved a surprise.