Designer’s work-in-progress Tube map could be £100,000 London guide
A unique proof copy of the first London Underground map annotated by its designer will be sold at auction this month when it is expected to make up to £100,000. […]
2025-12-03
Wicked Witch’s hat tipped for multi-million Wizard of Oz sale
A hat worn on screen in The Wizard of Oz by the Wicked Witch of the West will be auctioned next month when it could sell for millions of dollars. […]
2025-11-19
Bob Ross painting receives $1 million bid
Bob Ross inspired countless people to take up art. What an achievement! Now Ross’s paintings will help save the broadcasting networks that helped him to fame.
Ancient Egypt in the sale room: buy your own sarcophogi in Paris auction
Ancient Egypt still fascinates us, and the chance to buy a genuine relic from that distant time rarely comes up. Big buyers will no doubt be in Paris on November 18 for this major sale.
2025-11-12
Debut sale for $1-million original Star Wars poster painting
The original painting for the best-known poster of the first Star Wars film is for sale for the first time with a $1-million starting price next month. The poster for […]
Winston Churchill letter to his first love for sale
Imprisoned after some typically devil-may-care war reporting in South Africa, Churchill wrote to the woman who was probably his first love.
2025-11-05
Boba Fett’s blaster targets another big Star Wars auction sale
A Boba Fett original is bound to get Star Wars fans up into orbit. This gun from The Empire Strikes back is a one-off with a generational price tag.
Superman’s debut comic soars to $3 million-plus before auction
They printed around 1 million copies of this debut magazine featuring a super-popular new hero. But, they asked kids to cut off the back page and intact examples are worth a mint.
Steve McQueen is big attraction in major movies and motors sale
Steve McQueen still epitomises cool. And it’s a cool closely associated with fast cars. Start you engines then for the perfect sale for lovers of elegant, beautiful, superfast machinery.
2025-10-29
Napoleon’s brooch from Waterloo heads to Geneva auction this November
In the chaos and confusion of the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon’s carriages went astray. Now one of the most precious items found inside will be sold at auction.
‘Tragic’ Titanic pocket watch has £1 million auction estimate
The stories of the Titanic are why we remember this appalling disaster. Isidor and Ida Straus told one of the most compelling and moving of those stories.
2025-10-22
Lincoln’s Gettysburg cane is star at political memorabilia sale
A thoughtful gift, no doubt, but the President didn’t really want it. The man he gave it to added the evidence that makes Lincoln’s Gettysburg Cane so valuable now.
2025-10-15
Winston Churchill’s “Marrakech” painting is star of historic Canadian sale
Churchill loved Marrakesh so much he went there to paint six times. One of his best works from those trips will sell as Canada’s oldest business is liquidated next month.
Zappa, Harrison and Clapton headline major December guitar sale
Zappa guitars don’t sell often; this one never has; and it may be his best. Get set for records in this December guitar sale that also sees Harrison, Clapton and more on the block.
The Winter Egg could set Faberge auction record for a third time
Tsarina Maria Feodorovna got a wonderful present at Easter 1913. Her Faberge egg, the legendary Winter Egg, may break auction records again when it sells this winter.
