One of the most valuable tea services ever assembled, sold for £541,250. Bidders competed for eight items of the legendary ‘Half-Figure Service’-type, a highly important set of Meissen porcelain in the Said and Roswitha Marouf Collection.
Other News
Richard Balsbaugh Collection of Vintage Radios
The Richard Balsbaugh Collection of Vintage Radios, an event that will serve as yet another benchmark in the collecting history of the popular collecting field of vintage radios, comes to auction on the 11th December.
Hippocamp Carousel Horse Stars in Carousel and Circus Memorabilia Auction
The highly anticipated Carousel and Circus Memorabilia and Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata auction, on December 4th featured approximately 100 lots of amusement memorabilia and mechanical musical instruments.
‘El Greco’ painting smashes pre-sale estimate at Bonhams Old Masters Sale
An oil painting of Saint Peter attributed to Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco, sold for £791,650 against a pre-sale estimate of £40,000 – 60,000 at Bonhams yesterday, 5th December 2012.
The Fairground Arrives at Unique Auctions
The New Years Day sale at Unique Auctions features a collection of items of UK fairgrounds and amusement arcades including Vintage Fruit & Arcade Machines, a French Carousel Horse….
James Bond ‘SKYFALL’ Corgi Car
Corgi has had a long association with the iconic James Bond franchise and to mark the 50th Anniversary of the first ever Bond movie and launch of the 23rd film, ‘SKYFALL’, Corgi is creating a 1:36 scale replica model of the official ‘SKYFALL’ movie car, the Aston Martin DB5.
Bunnykins Figure of the Year 2013 Off to School
The Royal Doulton Bunnykins of the Year 2013 has been designed by Neil Faulkner has depicts two young Bunnykins as they set Off to School.
Baseball Rarities Lead Heritage Sports Auction
Heritage Sports Collectibles’ $5.8 million Oct. 25-27 2012 Signature® Auction further established the company as the leading auctioneer in the industry.
WWII German Enigma enciphering machine for auction
A 1941 oak Enigma machine which was used to pass coded German messages during the Second World War will go under the hammer for the first time on the 14th November in Knightsbridge.
Collecting the Top 10 James Bond Cars
Collecting the Top 10 James Bond Cars – With the 50th Anniversary of the James Bond franchise, the release of Skyfall and the use once again of the Aston Martin DB5 as the Bond car we thought we would look at the toy and collectable cars that have been released […]
