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Can you believe it’s possible to own a coin from over 1,100 years ago? This Alfred the Great silver penny is a trailblazer and an extraordinary survivor in this condition.
A commonplace pair of shoe buckles can be worth thousands of pounds when they’ve been on the right footwear, in this case the shoes of Admiral Lord Nelson.
For many years this priceless tablet was used as a doorstep. Now it’s been sold for more than $5 million and will be donated to an Israeli museum.
An unusual pair of Allosaurus skeletons were the star item in a two-lot sale of Jurassic Icons in London last week.
A painting used on a cult sci-fi novel has sold for more than 10-times its predicted price. Why did the painting Drunkard’s Walk prove so successful?
Lyric drafts for Mr Tambourine Man are expected to realise the most at a January auction centred around the archive of legendary journalist Al Aronowitz. Aronowitz’s collections contribute 50 of […]
Steve McQueen wore a Heur Monaco through the filming of Le Mans and one example has just sold for $1.4 million. Elsewhere a Richard Mille watch made for Ferrari has […]
Fresh from helping to kill Caesar, Brutus was on the war path and after the Imperial throne. Money was a big part of his campaign and this coin, sold for £1.64 million, made him look his best.
They were flogged off by a studio that had no need of them, toured the country for tourists, and then were stolen from a museum, but finally the Ruby Slippers have a new home, and have set a new record in their category.
A cult horror flick is for sale. Not the costumes, the sets or the models (with the exception of one giant spider), but the entire film and all rights associated […]
Richard Mille in partnership with Ferrari is going to bring out the big guns in the watch-collecting world. Will they be willing to pay $2 million for this slimline wonder? Or even more?
To find one dinosaur is good luck, two is amazing, and these three skeletons make for one of the most important prehistoric sales of recent times. How much will they get? The answer could make history.
He’s a star of a sort, and a teddy bear from Brideshead Revisited was valued at 10s of thousands of pounds this week. And Aloysius wasn’t even the most valuable bear there.
Don Bradman was a legend in so many ways. There is no dimming to his legend, as a new record for a worn cap confirms at auction in Sydney this week.
He became one of the greatest heroes of his age in one 30-hour flight. Now, a British collectibles dealer is selling parts of the plane that made Lindbergh a legend.
