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Special Auction Services is selling what it bills as ‘the largest and most valuable doll collection to been seen at auction for 25 years’.

The appeal of more modern toys for the latest collectors buying based on nostalgia for childhood playthings was underlined by a large group of Transformers offered at Special Auction Services on January 17.

Penny in the slot machines known as a ‘Working Model’ came in many guises but, essentially, they all formed a large upright cabinet with a glass window top section.

As well as being an artist’s model and gallery owner who founded the museum dedicated to the work of the sculptor Aristide Maillol, Dina Vierny was also known as a collector of antique dolls.

A sterling silver scale model of the Lockheed TriStar aircraft was the top lot at Kinghams’ (25% buyer’s premium) Silver and Objects of Vertu sale in the Cotswolds.

The Doll & Bears Sale at Vectis (20.83% buyer’s premium) in Stockton-on-Tees included this rare Disney Donald Duck from the 1930s.

The toy company of Lines is often mentioned in relation to rocking horses but it was a double bay-fronted dolls’ house produced in c.1895 that impressed at Sheffield saleroom Ellis Willis & Beckett (19.5% buyer’s premium).

Dolls’ houses from the collection of a renowned expert and author came to auction in Kent.

The Late John Ruddle Collection of toy soldiers sale held at C&T (22% buyer’s premium) on December 6 was a very special occasion.

The 1970 World Cup was the breakthrough year for Panini.

The growth in the market for vintage football tops connected to popular players continues apace

The magic of the cup helped to sell a sizeable scene showing a Corinthians v Manchester City game offered as part of an extensive selection of works on a football theme which featured at Bonhams (28% buyer’s premium).

An FA Cup winner’s medal awarded to a club’s assistant secretary may not sound that much of a big deal.

Although the year began with a string of gloomy announcements about fairs closing, much more positive news followed as fresh events sprang up across the country

Valuable art and antiques can be discovered in all sorts of places, inside and outside the home, obvious or not

You may have already hinted, suggested, nudged your loved ones to buy something special this Christmas, but what would the Antiques Trade Gazette team recommend? We gave them each a generous budget of under £1000

How much would you spend on an antique or vintage chess set? Here are three examples from different periods that sold across a wide range of prices.

In September 2020, Soulis Auctions knocked down record prices at a sale of the Richard and Valerie Tucker collection of carnival shooting gallery targets.

To say that James Bond memorabilia is hugely collectable is not a statement to cause a huge shock.