Entertainment Memorabilia

Like Toulouse Lautrec, Ramon Casas y Carbo (1866-1932) was not only an avant-garde artist but a master poster maker and graphic designer.

PBA Galleries (25% buyer’s premium) cataloguer Bill Taylor discovered a poster for a 'Jazz Poetry Trio' event in Greenwich Village in a group of flyers relating to the San Francisco poet Philip Lamantia (1927-2005).

Terence Cuneo’s 'Giants Refreshed' poster for the LNER showing Pacific steam locomotives 'In the Doncaster Locomotive Works' is a well-known work.

A Citroën 2CV toy car is not quite as glamorous as a Lotus Esprit, even when the full-size version helps to save James Bond in an epic chase.

The Ephemera Society Fair is still going strong for its 50th anniversary despite having to make a move this year.

Stand-out lots from Shakespeare to Sendak, Marie-Antoinette to Mary Queen of Scots, Gill to Waugh and Turing to Buffalo Bill

The rise in modern collectables at auction has enabled one relative newcomer to prosper.

This rare playbill on silk printed in the Arctic in 1852 sold for £4400 at a recent sale at Keys (25% buyer’s premium) in Aylsham.

When it comes to collectables, the 007 films are on a level of their own. So much so in fact, that a Surrey auction house stages a dedicated sale.

The greatest actor of Victorian times and the creator of Dracula were among the notable figures featured in an autograph album sold at Surrey auction house John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium).

Scripts, photographs, posters and printed sheet music reflect what has become a popular collecting market

Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805-71) began to develop the very first mystery clocks in c.1830.