Dame Edna’s glasses sell for 25-times estimate at Barry Humphries auction
A pair of trademark glasses worn by TV character Dame Edna Everage realised £37,800 against a £1,500 top estimate at a sale of her creator’s collections. Barry Humphries was born […]
2025-02-19
Silver playing cards and baroque marble statues headline at Christie’s
Nearly a metre tall and beautifully carved in white marble, these scuptures are among the high points of Baroque art.
2025-02-12
Are silver playing cards worth an $800,000 gamble at auction?
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. […]
2025-01-29
Oscar Wilde ‘Ernest’ first edition to auction from Barry Humphries collection
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.
Two £1 million guitars at Jeff Beck sale
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 […]
2025-01-23
Outsider artist Ramirez’s drawing has $200,000 price tag
The works can look simple and even childlike, but the best outsider art can demand big prices as this January sale proves.
2025-01-08
James Joyce Ulysses 1st edition tipped for $150,000 sale
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.
2025-01-02
Three dinosaurs for £12.4 million
An unusual pair of Allosaurus skeletons were the star item in a two-lot sale of Jurassic Icons in London last week.
2024-12-19
10-times estimate for sci-fi classic Ender’s Game cover painting
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?
Two racer’s watches, two $1.4 million sales for McQueen’s Heuer and Mille’s Ferrari
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 […]
2024-12-13
Ferrari watch could make $2 million at auction
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?
2024-12-05
157-million-year-old dinosaur trio has £13 million auction estimate
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.
2024-12-04
Jeff Beck’s £1 million guitar collection in January auction
Ninety guitars owned by the late Jeff Beck will be auctioned – with a £1 million price tag – in January 2025. Beck, who died in 2023, aged 78, is […]
2024-11-28
Auction of Dune “bible” illuminates “greatest movie never made”
Some of the best designers in the world worked to bring Frank Herbert’s Dune to life. They didn’t get to realise their dream, but what a vision they created.
2024-11-27
Einstein’s nuclear warning letter goes for $3.9 million at Paul Allen sale
An incredible letter with literally earth-shattering implications has made millions at auction. And computing history is also going for big money at sales this week.
