Latest News Articles by Tom Derbyshire
TV legend Gerry Anderson treasure trove brings demand at Surrey sale
25 January 2021Models, props, scenery and scripts linked to Gerry Anderson emerged for sale at Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Send, Surrey at the end of last year.
Dolls’ house furniture is sitting comfortably
25 January 2021The collecting market for dolls’ house furniture has been enjoying a boom period if recent prices have been anything to go by.
Pelham professor makes his mark at British Toy Auctions
25 January 2021The British Toy Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) sale on January 8 in Runcorn included several Pelham Puppets rarities.
18th century Neapolitan world in miniature comes to US auction
25 January 2021It was not uncommon in the 18th century for a doll to be presented within its own miniature doll-scaled world.
Put your foot on the pedal as Junior Austin sells at H&H Classics
25 January 2021Auction house H&H Classics (15% buyer’s premium) is best known for selling full-sized vehicles but a smaller model impressed in a recent automobilia sale.
Dinky Octopus pulls in eager bidders
25 January 2021A Dinky Supertoys 935 Leyland Octopus flat truck with chains in its original box sold for £8200 at Kent saleroom C&T (22% buyer’s premium) on January 14.
Sales push: miniature pram and doll among the Kent stand-out lots
25 January 2021The strong level of prices being paid by collectors for dolls’ house furniture was underlined at a recent C&T sale.
Collectors answer action figure call to arms
25 January 2021How did toy manufacturers get boys in the rather less PC 1960s to play with dolls?
Volvo diecast toy makes 12-times estimate
25 January 2021This Volvo PV 444 diecast toy is by the Swedish toy distributor Gösta Norén.
Märklin made for the American market draws major demand
25 January 2021The cow catcher and bell on this Gauge 1 clockwork loco gives the game away: although made by German firm Märklin, the set was for the American market.
Toys and models: Homes under the hammer
25 January 2021Furnished dolls’ houses and accessories in general are proving the most dynamic area of the collecting market
Let there be light in Staines
25 January 2021Shown below is a page from another early railway-related work that did well at auction.
Man City owner was buyer of oldest FA Cup
18 January 2021The oldest surviving FA Cup was bought by Manchester City FC owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed when it sold at auction last year, it has now been revealed.
‘Attagirls’ items fly high at two auctions
18 January 2021Memorabilia relating to members of a pioneering elite group of female pilots who flew in the Second World War soared over estimates at two auction houses.
Medal awarded to Suffragette who threw a lump of iron at Churchill's car comes up at auction
09 January 2021How could throwing a missile at Winston Churchill’s car earn you a medal if you were British?
John Chard’s handwritten account of the battle of Rorke’s Drift sells for £140,000
04 January 2021A handwritten account of the battle of Rorke’s Drift by Lt John Chard of the Royal Engineers, who led the renowned stand against the Zulu attack, sold for a hammer price of £140,000.
Second World War female pioneering pilots memorabilia soars beyond estimates at auction
29 December 2020Memorabilia relating to members of a pioneering elite group of female pilots who flew in the Second World War soared over estimates at two auction houses.
Russell Flint returns in the same packing tube
21 December 2020The mixed-owner element of a recent Onslows’ sale included a William Russell Flint (1890-1969) LNER poster showing Bamburgh Castle.
Please spend your dollars in the USSR
21 December 2020This 1930s Soviet travel poster promotes Trans Siberian Express Shortest way between Europe and the Far East, for Intourist Moscow, Hotel Metropol represented by all main travel bureaus of the world.
Take the train to Saint-Flour
21 December 2020Four lots of French railway posters attracted a good deal of attention at Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) on December 9-10.