Collectables

The highlight of a Cornish auction on June 10 was an RAF logbook from Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot Flying Officer Arthur Peter Pease (1913-40).

After 50 years of buying at markets and shops, Oscar winner opens new venue to the public.

This impressive carved and painted wooden half-block model of a salmon measures an impressive 4ft 10in (1.48m) across.

The contents of a small London museum devoted to Victorian poets Robert Browning (1812-89) and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) sold for just under £100,000 at auction in Essex.

A collection of pop culture ephemera and football memorabilia found in a Cotswold bungalow was offered across 390 lots at auction.

The Chaworth Roll, a 14th century genealogy of the kings of England that includes the second-earliest recorded road map of the country, is on offer at TEFAF Maastricht this week.

Dramatic rescue of 1916 was recorded visually by the polar explorer two years later

A collection from three actors will be offered in Los Angeles this month.

The thirties became a period when mass production and Art Deco style combined to power cars to new heights of usage and popularity before war intervened

Lancashire singer, comedian and actor George Formby (1904-61) performed to audiences around in the world in the 1930s-40s. Famous for his comical and occasionally double entendre-laden songs, he became Britain’s highest-paid entertainer at the time.

The Britains Boer War Army Service Corps Supply Column set is described by toy soldier expert James Opie as “one of the must-have sets for keen collectors”.

This Superman Krypto-Raygun is a vintage projector toy that allows the user to flash picture stories onto the wall.

The vendor of this 1966 Mercedes W111 250 SE Auto Coupé won it in a competition.

Bid to £2800 via thesaleroom.com in a Forum Auctions (25/20/12.5% buyer’ premium) sale of May 5 was this seemingly very rare broadside published in London by James Catnach.

These two oak boarded chests, made to similar techniques four centuries apart, were offered for sale recently.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

A selection of lots relating to vehicles opens Poster Auctions International’s sale in New York on July 12.

Bid to £4000 – 10 times low estimate – in a May 18 sale held by Tennants (22% buyer’s premium) of Leyburn were two albums of what were defined as grotesque-style caricature portraits.

The next PBFA online book fair goes live on June 29 with a wide range of dealers exhibiting.