Collectables

A look ahead to the new PBFA fair in a renowned town for book-lovers.

Another tranche of items from the Dudley Ollis collection of playing cards was offered at a recent Dominic Winter auction.

A chance purchase at auction during lockdown inspired a whole book on a single day of the Tour de France 100 years ago

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

The Books and Works on Paper column on this week’s pages is Ian McKay’s last for ATG.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

After 2600 issues Ian McKay is hanging up his much-used quill. The column on this week’s pages is his last for ATG.

Vendor finds glass marbles are worth more than expected as they make surprise four-figure sums in Bury St Edmunds

Inscription by AA Milne using his nickname boosts price of a limited-edition copy to £21,000

A bound volume presenting the first seven issues of Magic Comic issued by DC Thomson in 1939 proved a highlight in a Comic Book Auctions (19% buyer’s premium) sale of June 4.

A Brutus Eid Mar-type silver denarius, struck shortly after the murder of Julius Caesar, has become the most expensive numismatic object ever sold at auction in Scandinavia.

Matchbox can sell well even when there isn’t an actual vehicle in sight.

A handwritten letter by the 26-year-old Mozart coming up for auction at Christie’s reveals a tricky love life.

Merchandise relating to an early show from the Thunderbirds creator makes a surprise sum at Kent auction

Sasha dolls are named after their Swiss designer, artist Sasha Morgenthaler and were made in the UK and Germany from the mid to late 1960s.

A rare work of 1767 called A Journal of a Voyage Round the World in His Majesty’s Ship The Dolphin… was offered by Thomson Roddick (20% buyer’s premium) in Carlisle.

Caroline Tremlett is a marketing and business development consultant and collects antique and vintage jelly moulds