Author: Dan Wade
Contact the author of these articles at dan@justcollecting.com
Contact the author of these articles at dan@justcollecting.com
US artist Ron English plans to whitewash the Banksy mural he bought at auction on Wednesday. English, who has been arrested several times for his artistic endeavours, is performing the […]
Apollo 11’s Lunar Module identification plate has top performed at a major auction of Neil Armstrong’s personal artefacts. The plate, which flew to the Moon’s surface aboard “Eagle” in the […]
A rare bottle of The Macallan has set a new record for a whisky at auction. The 750ml bottle of The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 60-Year-Old sold within estimate for […]
Video game lovers take note: we’re just a month away from the opening of a new exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). The Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition will delve […]
Sotheby’s will feature a collection of original artwork from the wildly popular Hong Kong comic Old Master Q in a second dedicated auction. Created by Alphonso Wong in 1961 this […]
The Earnest-Gregory Dovetailed Goose – one of the most celebrated duck decoys in history – will sell at Copley Fine Art Auctions next month. It is the highlight of the third […]
The classic car market enjoyed its third consecutive month of growth in May, new figures from the Historic Auto Group (HAGI) reveal. The sector rose in value by 2.2% in May […]
Ronnie Barker’s original handwritten script for The Two Ronnies sketch “Four Candles” has auctioned this afternoon (June 1) for £28,000. Featuring the red ink handwriting of Barker, who was using […]
Thomas Schelling’s Nobel Prize has sold for $187,500 at Nate D Sanders’ May 31 online auction. The US arms control expert, who died in 2016 aged 95, was awarded the […]
Classic car investors enjoyed an encouraging April after a troubling first three months of 2018, according to the Historic Auto Group’s (HAGI) latest figures. The HAGI Top index, which tracks […]
Bonhams hosted its annual Monaco auction on May 11, with a 1993 McLaren-Cosworth MP4/8A F1 car raced by Aryton Senna achieving $5m. Senna raced this model to his sixth and […]
Christie’s has announced the sale of three hugely rare bottles of 1774 vin jaune in its upcoming Fine Wines sale in Geneva on May 26. Each is valued at up […]
Christie’s sale of David and Peggy Rockefeller’s American art collection raised an extraordinary $106.8m last night. That brings the total for the sale of the couple’s unparalleled estate sale to […]
The Saint Louis Science Center will play host to the Smithsonian’s travelling exhibition on the Apollo 11 Moon landings from April 14 to September 3. Titled Destination Moon: The Apollo […]
The original working manuscript to Alcoholics Anonymous’ legendary Big Book has sold for $2.4m. The text last sold for $992,000 at Sotheby’s in 2007. Controversy surrounded that first sale, as […]