Collectables

I own this rather macabre looking carte de visite, and wondered if ATG readers would enjoy the challenge of identifying its subject in the run-up to Halloween.

Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh records beaten as collection of a Rolling Stone comes to auction

Wassailing ceremonies on important feast days were a legacy of Anglo-Saxon culture.

Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) was best known for his portraits of dogs and other animals, but romanticised village and hunting scenes were also very popular.

Beautiful watercolours by children’s book author and illustrator come to auction in studio sale

Lighter Club of Great Britain holds fair open to both members and non-members

Two previously unrecorded swords from the Tiger of Mysore are among the stand-out lots on offer in upcoming auctions and from dealers

Our regular listing of books and works on paper auctions held via thesaleroom.com

Among the highlights at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair (BIABF) is a first edition of a 19th century German children’s book.

A wistful and chatty letter from Charlotte Brontë to her editor William S Williams sold for $65,000 (£47,450) in California on September 7.

Relic belonging to French military hero sells in Versailles, with one of Napoleon’s bicorn hats still to come

Grey rather than green for his debut, the Incredible Hulk made his first appearance in 1962 and continues to enthral comic collectors.

In its latest catalogue, 'Networks of Knowledge', Peter Harrington Rare Books features one of the first pictures produced by a Jacquard loom.

The opening two lots of Gorringe’s (25% buyer’s premium) Fine Art & Antiques sale on October 3 were leather-bound albums of photographs from British India.

The Distinguished Flying Cross and bar awarded to the highest scoring Jewish ‘ace’ of the First World War is to be offered at Noonans’ auction in London on October 13.

When Ernest Shepard was first recommended to AA Milne in 1923, the author had originally deemed him unsuitable.

Increased private buying plus overseas trade purchases boost the huge annual extravaganza of the York National Book Fair.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

Andrew Morris inherited the collecting bug from his father, David Morris.

When 'Withnail and I' was released in 1987 it was a British film that seemed destined to disappear into obscurity.