Collectables

This silver desk clock designed in the form of a Rolls-Royce radiator grille with a red enamel badge and a miniature Spirit of Ecstasy mascot perched on top is thought to have been given as a Christmas gift by the British luxury car maker to one of its distributors.

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Letter sent from Holyrood implores a nobleman to support his course in the middle of the Jacobite Rising

The so-called ‘dummy board’ or ‘silent companion’ is believed to have originated in Holland during the early 17th century.

Famed for his range of characters, Barry Humphries was also a bibliophile of great taste

The Ephemera Fair, the annual event from the Ephemera Society of America (ESA), runs this year with a conference on the history of invention as well as the usual huge selection of stock.

Scripts, photographs, posters and printed sheet music reflect what has become a popular collecting market

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Turned down by several publishers, Beatrix Potter shouldered the expense of privately printing The Tale of Peter Rabbit with Strangeways Printers in December 1901.

Tommy nearly made the supreme sacrifice to support the Allied cause in the Second World War.

When bad weather made the Upton Park pitch unfit for play on Saturday, January 17, 1959, it must have seemed fairly unremarkable.

An atypical entry to the March 4-9 sale at the Harwich antiquities specialist TimeLine is this gold medal struck in Philadelphia following the sinking of American steamship Casper, on December 23, 1928.

Edward Curtis is famed for his photographs documenting the disappearing world of Native Americans