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Harry Potter mania never ends and a copy of his first appearance in print was rescued to star at auction in Devon this week.
Nearly a metre tall and beautifully carved in white marble, these scuptures are among the high points of Baroque art.
Video games are now firmly in the collectible category and rising in value, as a big, flagship sale in Dallas will confirm next week. Heritage Auctions’ Video Games Signature auction […]
A coin found in the Devon mud has sold for a record price. Discover why numismatists from around the world were clamouring to snag the Henry III gold penny.
Bright yellow and beautifully restored, this $1 million was the fastest on the road in its day. Read all about it here.
A lock of hair cut from the head of an unwitting Paul McCartney outside a BBC studio is for sale at a British collectibles company. Paul Fraser Collectibles are listing […]
A huge car sale in the US brought in millions of dollars this month. But one car – a Porsche driven by Steve McQueen in the movie Le Mans – […]
A rare Star Wars action figure showing Ben – Obi-Wan – Kenobi has set a record for its type of over $100,000. The figure was sold at Hake’s Auctions on […]
A set of 17th-century, German, silver playing cards will auction in New York next month and could realise as much as $800,000. The cards are a full set of 52. […]
Barry Humphries openly lived a double life. Oscar Wilde did so secretly. A copy of Wilde’s most famous work owned by Humphries may now make £150,000 at auction.
As independence fever ran around the 13 breakaway colonies of America, the country was hungry for copies of their founding statement. Find out about this rare copy of the Declaration of Independence here.
This watch won a silver medal behind Usain Bolt. It’s accurate enough to time the likes of Yohan Blake, the sprinter who wore it for every race of the 2012 London Olympics.
You can immediately see why a framed image of this sort produces the most desired errors when it goes wrong. There’s an extraordinary story behind this stamp too.
The Jeff Beck guitar collection sold in London yesterday, with two instruments going for over £1 million. Beck’s collection was sold at Christie’s in London, with an online and phone […]
As US Presidents hand over the White House with a slew of pardons, a British collectibles company is selling an unusual example of a British Royal Pardon signed by Queen […]
