Collectables

A remarkable late Victorian lecture programme on early polar exploration by the Norwegian explorer Dr Fridtjof Nansen has been discovered at Chaucer Auctions in Folkestone.

A series of unpublished photographs and film reel of Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) for a 1971 advert for a non-alcoholic beverage will be offered at RWB Auctions on September 11.

The famous hat was one of many props from blockbuster films to appear at Propstore’s August auction

Concorde’s capability to fly at twice the speed of sound and travel from London to New York in three hours attracted the rich and famous of the time.

A remarkable archive of newly discovered scientific papers by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing and his collaborator Donald Bayley has been temporarily blocked from export.

A lot catalogued as ‘Vintage toys, including marbles, rifle, Marklin spinners and butterflies, etc’ that appeared in a Burstow & Hewett auction estimated at £40-70 rolled out a surprise.

A temporary export bar has been placed on a British coin sold at auction that features the never-seen-before name Esunertos.

A collection of over 60 lots of royal correspondence from the private collection of the late Gerald and Angela Lascelles is coming up at Young’s Auctions in Farnham on September 14.

Autographs collected aboard Concorde by an air hostess will go up for sale at Hansons in Derbyshire on August 20.

The latest Books & Works on Paper sale at Lays in Penzance included a copy of the first printed book entirely dedicated to golf: Thomas Mathison’s ‘The Goff. An Heroi-Comical Poem. In three Cantos....’