Collectables

This 9ct gold pocket compendium with hallmarks for Alfred Dunhill & Sons, London, 1950, hammered at the lower end of a £15,000-20,000 estimate at Fellows in Birmingham on August 21.

Elektro was built in 1937 by industrial giant Westinghouse in Mansfield, Ohio, for the 1939 World’s Fair in New York: the first robot in the world that could walk, talk and even count on his fingers.

The Marklin ‘wagon within a wagon’ toy is a popular choice for collectors. Essentially this is a horsedrawn wagon that fits inside a railway wagon for transporting a long way.

This rare large Steiff brown-tipped mohair Teddy Clown bear offered by Special Auction Services (20% buyer’s premium) in its summer Fine Dolls, Teddy Bears & Traditional Toys Auction was once owned by a Josefina González González of Cuba.

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Barry Potter and his family attended their first BP Fairs event following the sale of the business to Warners Group.

Huge collection concentrates on a world before mass producing

Family archive features poem written by Alice author for the well-connected owner of a scrapbook

A Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal group of 10 Second World War honours coming up in a New Zealand auction recognised not just one but two successful escapes from captivity.

A remarkable result for an unboxed group of plastic figures could be due to a ‘holy grail’ withdrawn set

Despite a repainted face, and the arms and legs not being original, this William and Mary c.1690 English carved wooden doll still impressed a buyer enough for them to win her at a hammer price of £4600.

The highlight of the latest Militaria and Ethnographica sale at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) was an extraordinarily detailed first-hand account of shipwreck in the Indian Ocean.

An Edwardian ‘Regent Plate’ teapot by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company of London sold to a UK bidder for £4300 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Adam Partridge in Liverpool.

Remarkably, given Chelsea FC’s modern-day huge spending and multi-year lucrative contracts, two of the squad who helped to win their first-ever league title in 1954-55 were amateurs.

Archive and avian template for porcelain designs reflect the life of a remarkable 19th century polymath

Joint ABA and PBFA books fair in Bath praised as ideal for meeting customers and fellow traders

Register bizarrely contains the stats of notables as part of a social ritual

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