Auctions

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included the record-breaking sale of a Filipino modernist painting in Bury St Edmunds.

Elaborate Italian Renaissance armour emerges for public auction

A box of Chinese porcelain left in an attic in the Lincolnshire Wolds for more than two decades sold for £162,000 at auction.

While the work of British women on the home front in both world wars is now widely recognised in a wider sense, many of the specific units set up remain obscure and largely forgotten.

Personal effects of the actor who inspired the classic cult film Withnail and I are expected to fetch up to £18,000 at Sotheby's.

Thomas Taylor created the artwork in 1997 aged 23 years old and fresh out of art school.

A rare opportunity has come up to bid for a portrait miniature of the first US president, which has been found in the UK.

A complete set of Private Eye is coming to auction on July 17, presenting almost certainly a unique opportunity to acquire every copy up to now.

A 1953 first edition, first impression copy of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel Casino Royale in its original dust jacket, bought at a car boot sale for £1, has sold for £10,000 hammer.

A large prime period ‘California’ drawing by David Hockney, recently rediscovered by Chiswick Auctions, has sold for £320,000.

The medal awarded to twice-arrested Rona Robinson knocked down for £17,000 at Bonhams

With estimates from £300, here are six previews of items coming up at auction this week