Collectables

Belief in divine ability to cure the sick persisted among Stuart heirs in exile even as the Jacobite dream died

The winners of the fifth annual David Ruggles Prize, an international book and works on paper collecting prize established in 2021 to support and encourage young collectors of colour, have been announced.

An 18th century letter of marque pertaining to the privateer vessel Corbet, of Jersey, with wax seal attached, came up for sale at Channel Islands firm Martel Maides (20% buyer’s premium) on September 17.

I read with interest your article printed in the August 29 edition entitled ‘Weighing in with a hefty result’ (see ATG No 2757).

Josephine Baker (1906-75) was not originally supposed to star in La Revue Négre, the now-legendary Parisian show performed by an all-black US cast recruited from Broadway.

Dealers report brisk business at York event in everything from religious texts to rave posters.

In December 1777, Mohammed bin Abdallah (c.1710-90), Sultan of Morocco, became the first head of state to recognise the United States as an independent country.

First editions of the British author’s follow-up to his first novella are scarce and in high demand

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Coinex returns to Grosvenor Square this month with 50 exhibitors and a raft of auctions.

Eminent Georgian instrument maker George Adams (c.1709-72) first described his ‘variable’ microscope in 1771 in the fourth edition of his Micrographia Illastrata.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Such messages from second-class passengers on the liner are some of the rarest to be offered at auction

A trove of original Golden Age comic book art, much of it illustrated by female artists, dominated a recent sale at White’s Auctions (22/27% buyer’s premium) in Middleboro, Massachusetts.

Arch Rare Books & Antique Prints offers a command notebook chronicling Admiral Nelson’s command of the HMS Bellerophon in 1799.

Formed in London in 1963, English blues rock band The Yardbirds kickstarted the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton (in the group from 1963-65), Jeff Beck (1965-66) and Jimmy Page (1966-68).

Issued by Agar Publishing in September 1947, Atomic Age Comic was a British answer to the action-adventure comics of the American Golden Age.

Weighing in at over 40kg, a toy showpiece was not so Dinky after all.