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The Potteries Auctions May auction includes a good collection of Beswick pieces by designer Colin Melbourne. This great collection includes 12 pieces such as the Clown on Horse (small version Model No 1470), Seated Cat (black and cream Model No 1412), the Slinking Fox (black and brown colourways Model No […]
A Les Paul Gibson Gold Top Guitar and Case sells for $704,000 (£542,080) at Julien’s Auctions Property From Bill Wyman And His Rolling Stones Archive auction. This guitar and vintage case were used by Brian Jones in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, taped December 1968. The guitar was gifted […]
Bonhams Native American Art auction on the 31st August includes several historic artifacts from the Pacific Northwest Coast, dating from the early to mid-19th century, some of which are coming to market for the first time. The lots include an exceptional Tlingit Rattle carved in the form of an oystercatcher […]
Elvis Presley’s most important guitar ever to come to auction sold for $1,200,000 when it sold on 1st August at GottaHaveRockAndRoll.com. The historic 1942 Martin D-18 guitar, Serial Number 80221, which Elvis Presley owned between 1954 and 1956, is often referred to as his “Sun Sessions” guitar. Elvis used this […]
Unique Auctions 2019 New Years Day sale includes 15 pictures including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr & George Harrison, and an autographed letter by three of The Beatles. The collection includes 15 never seen before photographs taken in 1967 by a Lincoln gentleman working in Cornwall at the time of […]
One of the best collections of Doulton Lambeth and early Royal Doulton for many years is to be sold at Lincoln Auctioneers Unique Auctions as part of their New Years Day auction. The single owner collection features includes nearly 100 pieces including designers Hannah Barlow, Florence Barlow, Arthur Barlow, Emma […]
The Dark Side of Hollywood, an auction of more than 470 memorabilia, costumes, posters, and significant pieces of Hollywood history featuring Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula cape from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Universal International Pictures, 1948 . Unlike other films where pieces of the same item were made, there was […]
The Tinplate and Specialist sale at Vectis on the 14th November includes The London Decorative Tin Collection – a single private owner collection of 33 lots of unusual and scarce decorative sweet and biscuit tins. Tins from the collection date back to early 1900s and designs include sentry boxes, a windmill, Grandfather […]
A rare and unusual Geoffrey Baxter textured vase was sold at Special Auction Services, Newbury, Berkshire in October 2018 for £1,300. The vase was described as a Geoffrey Baxter for Whitefriars, a Textured glass range ‘Mobile Phone’ slab vase in Willow 27cm. The piece resembles the Nuts and Bolt vase […]
World’s Most Valuable Whisky A bottle of the extremely rare The Macallan Valerio Adami 1926 60 year old will be offered at Bonhams Whisky Sale in Edinburgh on 3 October. It is estimated at £700,000-900,000. The whisky was bottled in 1986. Macallan commissioned two world-famous Pop Artists – Valerio Adami […]
