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 Lorna
Bailey Auction Results: Lorna
Bailey celebrated 10 years in business with a special Open
Day on the 29th October which included an auction of prototypes
and art. (31st October 2005) click
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 Unique
Blue Dalek seeks new home without threat of extermination:
The rare 1970’s BBC Television Prop “The Dalek Supreme”
(aka The Tussaud’s Dalek) will be sold to benefit The Great
Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children at Bonhams sale of Rock
n Roll & Film Memorabilia on Wednesday 16 November 2005.
(26th October 2005) click
for more
 Swarovski's
Glimmering Christmas novelties: Swarovski's
annual stars are always popular among collectors and this
years editions have been created by Gabriele Stamey and
Heinz Tabertshofer. (25th October 2005) click
for more |
 Footballing
Legend Puskas Puts The Golden Boot Into Bonhams:
One of the greatest footballers of all time, Ferenc Puskas, star
of the Hungary team that dominated world football in the 1950s,
is to sell more than 100 of his personal mementos including the
Golden Boot awarded to him for scoring a formidable 83 goals in
84 International appearances – a world record that still
holds today.
(24th October 2005) click
for more
 Adam
Binder Netsuke Masks: Set
for release in November are a series of five open edition
Netsuke Masks from sculptor Adam Binder. (21st October
2005) click
for more |
 Lladro
Privilege - Trip to the Circus: The latest edition
for Lladro Privilege Gold Members is Trip to the Circus, which
raises the curtain on its new three ring trilogy.
(20th October 2005) click
for more
 Pocket
Dragon Club 2005/06: This
years Pocket Dragon Club looks set to be one of the last
as Real Musgrave has announced his retirement. This years
gift is the delightful My Guardian Dragon. (19th October
2005) click
for more |
 Ground-Breaking
Bonhams Sale To Celebrate Williams F1's 28-Year History:
Bonhams has been appointed by one of the world’s leading
Formula One teams, WilliamsF1, to hold a sale at its factory headquarters
in Grove, Oxfordshire, on 14 December 2005.
(18th October 2005) click
for more
| Lorna
Bailey 10 Years In Business Open Day: Lorna
Bailey celebrates 10 years in business with a special Open
Day on the 29th October. (17th October 2005)
click for
more |
 Wallace
& Gromit Anti-Pesto Van and Figures: Corgi have
released a number of Wallace & Gromit items to co-incide with
release of the first Wallace & Gromt feature film The Curse
of the Were-Rabbit.
(14th October 2005) click
for more
 Thomas
Kinkade Snowmen Ornaments: What’s
frosty on the outside, warm-hearted on the inside? The FIRST-EVER
snowmen ornaments dressed up in luminous Thomas Kinkade
artistry! (13th October 2005) click
for more |
 Harrods
Christmas Bear 2005: Nicolas is this years Harrods
exclusive Christmas bear. Togged up in a cosy red cable knit jumper
and a snug Balnagown scarf and featuring the Harrods logo on his
paw, he’s ready to make somebody’s Christmas even merrier.
(12th October
2005) click
for more
 Fire
destroys historical Aardman artefacts: On
the day that Aardman celebrated a chart-topping opening
weekend in the US with Wallace & Gromit 'The Curse of
the Were-rabbit', there was news of a fire at their storage
unit. (11th October 2005) click
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 Smoking
Cigars In First Ever Hockney Auction: The
first auction ever to be entirely devoted to the works of David
Hockney features a highly topical photo-collage from the pro-smoking
artist. 'Billy Wilder lighting his cigar,' made in 1982, is set
to fetch up to £6,000 in Bonhams' sale of David Hockney
Prints & Multiples on 31 October, which is collectively expected
to generate around half a million pounds.
(10th October 2005) click
for more
 The
Munsters™ Halloween Village: Hawthorn
Village have created a Halloween Village based on the the
classic The Munsters TV show and authorized by Universal
Studios
(7th October 2005) click
for more |
 Chistmas
Time Betty Boop:
C&S
Collectables have announced the release of Christmas Time Betty
Boop which will be available from December 2005.
(6th October 2005) click
for more
 Dragons
Yule Love: Just
reaching the shops now is this new wonderful Pocket Dragons
Limited Edition
(5th October 2005) click
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 Real
Musgrave to Retire: Real Musgrave the artist behind
the popular Pocket Dragons collection has announced he is to retire
at the end of 2006.
(4th October 2005) click
for more
 World
Record Price for Graham Greene Photograph Fetched at Auction:
A world
record price was achieved at a Bonhams auction on 3 October
2005 when a signed photograph of the novelist Graham Greene
(1904 - 1991) fetched an astonishing £20,400 - some
ten times its lower estimate of £2,000. It is the
most expensive signed photograph of Greene ever sold at
auction. (3rd October 2005) click
for more |
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