Collectables

A bag of coins donated to Oxfam in Orpington, Kent, contained an Australian New South Wales coin dating to 1813 which is valued at up to £7000.

A six-hour sale of 122 lots from the collection of singer-songwriter and Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler took £7.01m (or £8.84m including buyer’s premium).

Winston Churchill’s desk which he used to write his Second World War memoirs has been sold by Peter Harrington Rare Books at The Winter Show in New York (January 19-28).

An exceptional Maltese silver coffee pot took six-times estimate at auction.

A group of scripts, notes and letters from Hollywood actor Harrison Ford, discovered in a Notting Hill flat he rented, are coming to auction.

The second part of the auction of The Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey is returning to Dominic Winter Auctioneers.

With estimates from £200, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

One of the most coveted Star Wars figures is the Jawa figure by Palitoy with the original vinyl cape.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a collection relating to Sir Winston Churchill being offered from a dealer’s stand at a US fair.