Collectables

A Victorian cased pair of the extinct New Zealand huia sold for £220,000 (plus 24% buyer’s premium) in Tennants’ Natural History and Taxidermy sale.

Spink will conduct the Official Coinex Auction on September 28.

This Second World War Distinguished Conduct Medal group of five was awarded to Serjeant John Chapman of the 4th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers.

In the 1790s a dire shortage of small copper change caused great difficulties in the small transactions of everyday life.

A collection of Greek coins formed over 20 years ago by a European connoisseur will be sold by Morton & Eden in London on September 26-27.

Specialist Bleasdale says his sewing antiques and Tunbridgeware timed online sales are working out well

Almost 120 years ago at 13 Bruton Street an estimated 10,000 visitors were drawn to an exhibition that caught the public attention and attracted record queues.

Among the highlights of The Premier Sale at St James’s Auctions on September 27 is this Battle of Culloden gold commemorative medal.

Australian saleroom Abacus Auctions will feature a compact but significant collection of medals formed by British expatriate Dr Cecil Walkley.

The Book of Sports by Robin Carver is considered the first American publication to describe the sport of baseball.

Massive ornamental hair combs such as this are associated with the East Sumbanese people of modern Indonesia.

The latest edition of the Coin Yearbook is published this month.

As co-publishers and editors of Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine established in 1991, Robin and Kathryn Smiley’s bookshelves were brimming with choice first editions from across the broad span of British and American literature.

The Coinex extravaganza brings out the big guns of the UK numismatics trade alongside continental European dealers.

A copy of Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy album signed by all four members of the band sold to a phone bidder for £15,000 .

One of two texts in a single volume revealed after eager bidding to be by Hungarian Jesuit

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper auctions being staged on thesaleroom.com

On October 3 Noonans will sell two single-owner collections.

Sensational was the only word for it.

An 18th century copy of Tikkunei Shabbat (an amalgam of Hebrew prayers and devotions for the Sabbath) sold for £57,000 to an international phone bidder at Hansons on September 5.