Auction Results
The latest auction results from around the world compiled daily by our experts.
Waterloo looted Napoleon hat pin sells for 17 times estimate at £3.3-million-plus auction
Waterloo was a terrible, bloody end to Napoleon’s sometimes glorious military career. As he fled to Paris, Prussian officers went through his possessions – one of them took this jewelled pin.
2025-11-13
Pioneering Channel-swim Rolex makes £1.3 million at auction
This watch was one of the first big-name sports endorsements and it helped to make the Rolex Oyster a legendary watch. Find out more here.
2025-11-12
Flowerbed find of Tudor coins the New Forest Hoard sells for nearly £400,000
As an incentive to get your garden in order how’s this? One couple set out to mend their fence posts and have ended up seeing the Tudor coins they found sell for hundreds of thousands.
£1.8 million for giant golden ducat as £100 million coin collection sales continue
As a Hapsburg, Ferdinand III had money to burn, which is what he used these giant gold coins for. As Europe burned again, the coin was collected and hidden during WWII.
2025-11-07
Bowie’s Aladdin Sane portrait sets new album-art record at nearly £400,000
Bowie, on a stool, when a makeup artist suggests a lightning flash on his face and the photographer says “make it bigger”. So was born a legendary image that has just been sold.
2025-11-05
Batman and Robin outfits wow at major TV sale
There’s still a cult following for 1960s TV shows and a big market for memorabilia as a major sale has just proved. Holy mackerel, you need to see the prices on these costumes.
2025-10-29
Abraham Lincoln’s cane and JFK’s watch bring big money for US political memorabilia
The two greatest tragedies in American political history are also the most collectible moments. Lincoln and Kennedy have proved their value yet again. Read more here.
Eddie Van Halen’s Kramer is sixth most valuable guitar ever auctioned
Players love Eddie, and he was a real guitar head, making his own instruments and tinkering hard on this one that has now become one of the most valuable ever.
Oasis-row smashed guitar finds new home
A Noel Gallagher-owned guitar that his brother Liam used as a weapon as the band fell apart has been auctioned for nearly £300,000. The 1960, red Gibson ES-355 was one […]
2025-10-24
Lou Gehrig’s final home game Yankees jersey leads $8-million sports, entertainment sale.
Lou Gehrig is a legend on and off the diamond. These artifacts brought the hero and the sportsman together and proved their worth this week.
Christopher Columbus book auctions for $1.6 million
A 1494 print of Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas has proved valuable at auction. And an Einstein photo surprised to go for many times its estimate.
2025-10-22
Einstein’s violin makes over £1 million at auction
Einstein loved this violin. It must have hurt to leave it behind in Germany. But with Hitler in power he had no choice. Now it has sold for a record price.
2025-10-15
The Mafia boss and the Beat writer and the missing story
A mafia don somehow acquuired an unpublished Jack Kerouac story and now, fully authenticated, it has sold for thousands of dollars. A story worthy of the Beat Generation.
Record auction price for super rare 1907 $10 dollar coin
A rare proof coin of a 1907 $10 dollar coin has just sold for $2.4 million. There are just two examples of this coin known.
2025-10-08
162 world records as historic Rothschild wine sale brings in $11 million
She was born into the Rothschild family, owners of the greatest vineyard in the world. Her wine collection was stored from inception and was unveiled to an $11 million sale.
