Collectables

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online.

The Oak Interior sale at Bishop & Miller in Stowmarket on June 1-2 includes this ‘important and exceptional’ Edward IV bronze measure.

Two of Jane Austen’s works, both from the same Wyoming collector’s estate, were stand-out lots in a May 11 sale held in Chicago.

The 33 pieces of ‘Mouseman’ furniture on offer at Carlisle auction house Thomson Roddick (20% buyer’s premium) all came from a Cumbrian Georgian country house where they had been since at least before 1950.

The standout signature to an autograph album compiled by a boy scout in 1919 was that of Lawrence of Arabia.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

One of the more remarkable results of recent weeks came in a May 3 sale at Freeman’s (26/21/15% buyer’s premium) of Philadelphia.

Works by the three sisters including copies published under pseudonyms come to a Cambridge auction

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

Two Generations Collection was the title of an auction of automobilia and collectors’ cars amassed by a single family.

This mahogany 12-drawer cabinet of minerals, rocks and fossils carries the printed trade label reading Arranged and Sold by J Tennant, Mineralogist by Appointment to Her Majesty, 149 Strand London.

Shown here are pages from an extremely long, hand-coloured aquatint record on one continuous folding strip just a little over 4in tall, but a work that would extend to around 19ft (5.8m) if fully opened.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

Milestone’s 881-lot auction on May 27 in Willoughby, Ohio, is led by a collection of post-war Japanese toy robot rarities.

Among the most popular cigarette cards to collect are those produced by the Taddy company.

Four-figure first edition du Maurier book comes in the trademark Gollancz design without pictures

A left-hand cotton mitten owned by John Hunt (1910-98), leader of the successful British Expedition to the summit of Mount Everest, sold for £3200 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Hansons in Bishton Hall, Staffordshire, on May 10.

Converse Auctions in Pennsylvania will be offering the clock collection of Willis R Michael (1894-1969) in its online auction on May 19.