Collectables

Maps and documents relating to Quaker family come up at Essex auction house centuries later

Published in 1598, John Florio’s 'A Worlde of Wordes, or most Copious, and Exact Dictionary in Italian and English' is considered the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary.

Plenty of collectors and dealers of vintage angling kit will be on “the riverbanks” as it were as 36 of them stall out with their rods, reels, cased fish, books, art and catalogues at the National Vintage Fishing Tackle Fair on Sunday, November 17.

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Copies of the Lord of the Rings trilogy just don’t get much better than the set shown here.

From the 14th century onwards, locksmith guilds were well established in major cities throughout Europe.

Etc Fairs’ ephemera fairs run four times annually at the Holiday Inn in Bloomsbury, London WC1, with the next on Sunday November 24 selling all manner of postcards, manuscripts, maps, prints and plenty of quirky paper items.

A striking Art Deco marble sculpture by the Brazilian Modernist Victor Brecheret (1894-1955) achieved more than 10 times its estimate at John Moran (27% buyer’s premium) in Monrovia, California.

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Keys Auctioneers and Valuers [of Aylsham, Norfolk] is sad to announce the death of Andrew Lindsay-Bullock, who was head of books at the firm until he stepped down due to ill health in 2023.

The pictorial enamel signs advertising Webb’s Seeds of Stourbridge are some of the most popular on the UK market.

Comprehensive group of medical records from East India Company surgeon star in eclectic sale

“Extremely scarce” was the description of a Scalextric C70 Type 59 Bugatti offered at auction in Lewes and it certainly lived up to that billing.

A mandolin musical box by François Nicole (b.1766) delighted bidders at Lawrences (25% buyer’s premium) of Crewkerne, selling for £22,000 against a £8000-12,000 estimate.

The ABA Chelsea Rare Book Fair will take place in its charming and traditional location: Chelsea Old Town Hall on the Kings Road.