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The works can look simple and even childlike, but the best outsider art can demand big prices as this January sale proves.
Historic mementos don’t come much more concrete than this, the bench where Lionel Messi changed and the locker he put his gear in on the way to the greatest career in world football history.
Showing one of the key figures in the Star Wars story with features that were later ditched, this model is super-desirable to collectors.
A landmark guitar and a trademark shirt from two great American artists are the lead items in a sale built around the Spencer Davis collection.
The 1904 Olympics was a very American affair. A US athlete won this medal that you can buy now – if you have $170,000 odd to spare.
Scrooge McDuck loved his money, but how much will someone pay for a picture of him on his lake of cash made by the man who created the character.
It’s a hard read, but one of the most important works of literature and to book collectors. Find out why this copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses carries a $150,000 price tag.
A very beautiful, and very fast car, will set race lovers’ hearts beating this February as a Streamliner 1955 Mercedes sets the 2025 car auction season off to a racing start.
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 […]
